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I agree with what other people have said. Why play a game with an unfamiliar setting if you're not willing to work with some unfamiliar terms? A lot of the terms that this game would be using are fairly well-known in English anyway. I've seen shogun, Tennō, Sengoku Jidai, and daimyo all commonly used in non-specialist English texts. It's not like Chinese, where people are accustomed to seeing 'emperor' instead of huángdì.
While naturally research is always your best option, you can go the more fun route, if you have a PS3 (60 Gig version) or a Ps2 lying around, just pick up:
Nobunaga's Amibtion: Iron Triangle for the PS2
Go search for it on Amazon, they have new copies available for like 15 bucks..
Fantastic game, and most importantly you learn a bit about Japanese history since each officer has a bio, the game has story driven events and all that fun stuff. Plus, it's a nice filler till Sengoku comes out.
Not sure if that's exactly what the original poster was asking, but figured I would mention it anyway
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Nobunaga's Amibtion: Iron Triangle for the PS2
Go search for it on Amazon, they have new copies available for like 15 bucks..
Fantastic game, and most importantly you learn a bit about Japanese history since each officer has a bio, the game has story driven events and all that fun stuff. Plus, it's a nice filler till Sengoku comes out.
Not sure if that's exactly what the original poster was asking, but figured I would mention it anyway
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Or, if you're not the strategy game type, try Samurai Warriors, a beat 'em up by the same publisher.
Then again... why would you even be here?
Dear God, no. Stay away from anime and manga.
If you want to learn about serious Japanese history, with real historians and academics, here's the place to go: http://www.samurai-archives.com/
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you know, anime, manga, and games can be a useful source, not always accurate, but helpful non the less, DW and SW serieses tend to have encyclopedia and bios in them, same with NA and ROTK.
These things actually often spark my interest in certain topics and historical figures.
These things actually often spark my interest in certain topics and historical figures.
Some manga and anime are good for learning in an enjoyable way. You don't have to be an academican to learn. As someone who has studied japanese history I claim that much of what I've learned was at least sparked by the entertainment business.
No, I quite agree with soran: Anime and manga is good for early incidental knowledge.
No, I quite agree with soran: Anime and manga is good for early incidental knowledge.
What on earth do anime and manga have to do with Samurai Warriors, a video game related to no anime or manga that isn't even rendered in an anime or manga-esque artstyle?
This is not to say that SW is a good historical resource (although it certainly has more history about the era than the average non-Japanese person is likely to know), but your comment makes no sense. Perhaps you're thinking of the Capcom Sengoku game (released overseas as "Devil Kings", with historical data removed and replaced with fantasy fiction), which was made into an anime?
True. For example Lone Wolf & Cub is an extremely entertaining manga, but it's also full of historical detail that really immerses the reader into Edo period Japan.
I'm hoping that Paradox strike a nice balance between terminology and accessibility. I've no problem with doing research to find out more the intricate details, but I'd rather spend my time uniting Japan, than browsing wikipedia.