Expeditions: Samurai

My honest opinion 7.8/10 (great so far!) Story, combat, and movement Story: Great story telling especially “choice matters” dialogue to improve relationships plus knowing point you add in your skill matter! The only thing I found interesting and confusing was side characters have those options also. Not sure why when for me they can’t be use to chat with NPC vendor for better price or service.7/10 Combat: good especially knowing there is permanent death option making combat and strategy important. I haven’t made it far into the game but looking forward to more combat.9/10 Movement- Movement in the game is great aside from jumping aspect I found myself in combat knowing I could jump/climb over a wall but did not found any button or feature that allow me to do so (I could be not looking more closely) but overall great! 10/10 Great game looking forward to playing more!!

Unhappy because I've completed the early access. Happy because I've really been enjoying it so far. This is my first time playing an of the expedition series. I'm enjoy the story, enjoying the fights, enjoying all of it. The only bug I encountered was a companion falling through to under a building during a fight and having to reload afterwards as they were trapped when the battle happened. This only occured once. I'm looking forward to the full release and have bought the other expedition games to try.

Let's start with the elephant in the room. I never write reviews with less than ten hours played (unless the game itself lasts less than that). I feel compelled to share my thoughts here because there are a plethora of scared white people trying to review bomb yet another game that dares to have women and colored people, which is especially confusing when this is set in Japan. So yes I recommend this, not as "DEI" or "woke" support but because it's a solid early access initial release by that standard and so far despite the lack of tutorials I find the combat a bit more engaging than Rome. It's very rough right now so ultimately the decision is if you want to play it in iterations and take the gamble that it will be finished (a pretty safe bet given that this is the fourth installment of a very high quality series). Like I said it's very rough. The UI is not intuitive and the controls are very weird with keyboard and mouse. For example, you have to use left shift to sneak (right shift, which has no other apparent function, does nothing), but to interact or open things you have to use the mouse button used for run (left mouse button as far as I can tell has no function), so it's very easy to misclick and end up running around a door instead of opening it, alerting the guards and ruining your progress. An iron man run will be endlessly frustrating even if you allow for the soft locks (I had several) To compound this there's no in game bug report I found which should come standard in early access. That said it's aesthetically gorgeous, the dialogue and early story are compelling, and the shipmates are very likeable and interesting. There's also a cat. The combat can take a minute to get used to and the ui is missing a lot of functionality (there's also no location map I could find) and all of that is compounded by the severe lack of good tutorials even after you find the codex, but the bones are certainly in place and I'm enjoying my time with the story. The lack of NPC model and voice variation is made quickly apparent, but the companions and story characters are well designed as are the weapons and armor and the ability to focus on european or japanese equipment or mix and match is a very cool visual twist on the genre. I like it so far, I recommend it warts and all.

自分が３０分プレーしたところ、このゲームは良く作られた一作だと思いました。前作にも遜色しないところ、秘められたポテンシャルは前作を超えていると自分は感じました。ただ私は英語がそれほど得意じゃありませんので、出来れば早くローカライズして欲しいです。この値段でこの品質のゲーム遊べる自体開発者に感謝しなければならない！あとシリーズは前作から楽しんでいますけれども、この作品のシリーズが続く限り私も生きていれば応援していきたいと思ってます。

Only played a short bit, but they seem to have used real Dutch voice actors to play the part of the Dutch shipcrew. And they talk in great "Steenkolen Engels". Unironically, that is awesome.

Love the art style and the character design. Love that the game shows the charters in the conversation instead of the portraits it gives the game a lot more immersive feel and makes the characters much more expressive then having a static portrait stare at you for 100plus hours.

Very promising early access, cool artstyle. Keep up great work!