A really fun game, the appeal to me comes from climbing up the ranks and the combat. The controls are fine but the duels have weird perspective that takes getting used too. Luckily the training mode exists for each type of encounter so you can practice before doing a run. The army scale battles are nice and simple. The number of units is based on size of area you control and tax. The types of encounters you have are based on what and how you play. You can sneak into another lords house, have another lord sneak into your house, fight bandits in the field or random towns and fight off farmers that are angry at you taxing them to high on your own land. This is controlled from a top down perspective with arrows and a katana. Almost reminds me of playing gauntlet. The reasons you become an enemy with someone is whatever reason you come up with. Kind of just based on what you want to do, you just respond to their actions. Certain lords are just more annoying or bad at certain encounters and you can engage them how you like. You can also just help them out or have tea with them. You can just hang out with a lord for like ten minutes and be good to them if you think their cool and they can help you and tell you things. The game is really simple and it almost lends itself something like a sandbox game with the amount of ways to handle a problem. The story doesn't exist and it's just how you want to handle those problems as they happen or make problems. Things just seem to happen in this game, you will fill in the blanks and make something from nothing on your own and handle it your own way. The sprites look really cool, the music doesn't get annoying, and the plot is whatever you decide. It also isn't overly complex for what it is which almost lets you pick up and play this due to the gameplay variety. If you are okay with the amount of player choice and lack of true story it's fun to waste hours here.
