The Craft of the Samurai

It is a short visual novel (30 min. long) that reminded me of the works by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. In all, I enjoyed the story. The art was beautiful but it would have been nice if more drawings had been used to visually tell the story.

A super short story with really cool music and visuals. My only complaint is the way it narrates with "(he did x)" a lot, not a fan. Also wish there were more CGs but oh well.

"The Craft of the Samurai" isn't a game, it's a cringey non-game high school anime club dropout fan-fiction that's been dumped on Steam into the games section. As a visual novel, it doesn't have any gameplay. It's just a lot of clicking through bad, cringe dialogue that no real publisher would ever accept. When people can't get their work published in print, they pay the $100 fee to dump their fan-fiction here instead, where we have to put up with it when looking for things that are actual PC games. Unlike most Steam Direct e-book high school anime club dropout fan-fictions, this one is not about the author and his imaginary girlfriend. Instead it's a fan-fiction about the samurai era of Japan, written by someone who is not from Japan. It is, however, just as cringe and badly written as most of the Steam e-books about imaginary girlfriends, so it's no surprise how badly this failed. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, just like no professional writing took place here, no professional software development too…

I have no words for the story, nor the style of game, I only can say that this is worth a read.

[h1]Before I played The Craft of the Samurai, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

[h2] Sum-Up[/h2] [h1] In-depth analysis further down.[/h1] [table] [tr] [th]🟩Pros[/th] [th]🟥Cons[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]As a Self-Voicing option that acts as Text-to-Speech, since the game is a linear story this can turn the experience in to a film.[/td] [td]Short Visual Novel, takes you under one hour.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]-/-[/td] [td]No choices can be made.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]-/-[/td] [td]While sticking true to its inspiration, the Story does seem promising but fails miserably.The style of writing is a bit confusing for the reader to follow, a mix of two different types of writing.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]-/-[/td] [td]The game has four Backgrounds, no character sprites. There isn't enough variation in the backgrounds for all the story.[/td] [/tr] [/table] [h2] In-Depth[/h2] [h1] Premise, Setting & Writing.[/h1] The Craft of the Samurai is set in Japan in the 17th century, follows Hanshiro, an old farmer, as he once again travels down the path of a samurai in order to save his loved ones. This visual novel takes inspiration from cinematic works of famous Japanese directors like Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, and Hideo Gosha. [h1]General Gameplay[/h1] There is none!…