Backlog Attacks! - Way of the Samurai 3

Onesimos is responsible for all of this.

All of it.

Welcome!

This is our next round of Backlog Attacks!  For those of you who sustained a head injury in our last round, I achieved what many thought was a feat of ludicrous daring.  1000/1000 in Two Worlds I.  Yes, the unncecessary schleping from GorGammar to Yamalin was rewarded with meaningless GamerScore points.

Now with the urging and (alarmingly free) donation of Way of the Samurai 3 (360) from Onesimos, I will be pestering you periodically about plowing through the game.

First off, the box is heavy.  Apparently this comes from a time when manuals were still de rigeur, unfortunately, the information is repeated as half of it is in French.  But, when's the last time you got a game with a 70+ page manual?

Wait a character design section?  Multiple heads to choose from?  What is this?  Borderlands 2?  How about I pick Normal and the default character design.  Okay, sole survivor of a battle, blah, blah.

I didn't read any of the manual prior to simply booting the game up.  This was a mistake as I whipped my katana out in the first cut scene, some farmers fled and I was unable to get into the village.

Whoops.

Secondly, what the HELL is going on?  I am running around, I am given initial options, a la Mass Effect for good (bowing) and bad (whipping out a blade).  However, if I do that, I don't get a conversation option.  Great.  This is going to take some time.

Oh, wait the back button skips scenes and gives me dialog options.  That's useful.

Okay, in order to get to the girl to give me starting information regarding the game, I have to kill two guys who are harassing her.  Right after a village elder warned me not to get into trouble.  Hmm... Should I let them live after giving my tutorial girl a hard time?  Not in my feudal Japan, mister.

Right, so you had to wait until AFTER I killed those guys to tell me how to initiate a conversation.  That would have been useful about thirty seconds ago, sister.

Alright, I have killed someone for 5GS.  That's a good start.