When a weapon goes down to zero durability and breaks you can fix it but it'll cost you some degradation to the sword. These weapons have durability and degradation. The demoer told me that there were 100s of swords. Seeing as it's a Samura game, it's not surprising that there are lots of weapons available. But if you can successfully establish a Language School in a playthrough - and protect it - you can learn English and this will allow you to talk to everyone in Little England in all later playthroughs. For example, in Little England you can't talk to most of the residents since you speak Japanese and they only speak English, and what few residents you can talk to speak extremely broken English/Japanese. Some things carry over between playthroughs too. One nice addition to this type of gameplay is a flowchart that shows you which scenes you've already watched in previous playthroughs and which you have yet to see, which should make life easier for the completionists out there. You see, Way of the Samurai 4 is actually only 1-10 hours long (depending on the ending you go for), but in order to really see everything the game has to offer you're going to have to play through numerous times. Of course, this will affect how people react to you, and will even have repurcussions in later playthroughs. Unlike Yakuza, though, you have more freedom in how you interact with people, in that you can randomly slice up any NPCs you come across. The gameplay is a lot like that found in the Yakuza titles you roam the city completing story quests if you like, but you can also just play around to your heart's content. A lone samurai walks into town and immediately gets caught in between all of these warring factions. Three factions are now in constant turmoil: the British, who are trying to establish a presence for trading the anti-foreigner activists, who want things to go back to the way they once were and the Shogunate who are trying to keep the peace by whatever means necessary. The storyline takes place in Japan right after the borders were opened and internationalization began. Way of the Samurai 4 is quite clearly in the second category. The serious open worlds where you have freedom but only within what's reasonable for your character, like Grand Theft Auto, and games that eschew that standard and go for the ridiculous. When I think about it a bit there seem to be two clear types of open world games. By VGChartz Staff, posted on 11 June 2012 / 3,448 Views

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