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Edited by Minh
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0:00 Intro
0:15 Gameplay
54:36 Endcard
I can’t believe im gonna say it but Minh understands this story better than Woolie at least in this episode
“Hey, kiddo. I know you just had to betray your moral code and kill your oldest friend as he begged for mercy but… It’d be real cool of you if you put all the blame on the woman that saved your life and has been completely loyal to our cause even after the death of her brother. I’ll even let you call me papa Shimura.”
I can’t believe they Dosho’ed his Digital Deluxe DLC
“This horse will be with you for your entire journey.” LIES!
I know Khan’s the big bad here, but it wasn’t the Mongols who killed my frickin’ horse.
“Man, these cutscene arrows hit different.” Kage probably.
Say whatever you want about Ishikawa Woolie, at least he stands with the Ghost.
Apparently the true crime is teaching the peasants to fight for themselves, instead of relying on their “protectors” for everything.
He always was a hypocrite. He was friends with a smuggler, so he is fine with being friends with a thief as long as its beneficial.
Anyways, poison and dishonorable tactics are equalizers just like gunpowder. You don’t need the gear and training a noble receives to kill a knight or a samurai… so why do they need them? Honor is part of what kept the whole feudal system intact. Once a peasant can just pick up a gun or poison them a lord, then the lords are much less powerful.
And Shimura accomplished much with little? Jin did all the heavy lifting. No wonder Shimura is not respected.
Jin: “I have to kill all the guards in this tower before I survey the area.”
Mission list: SURVEY THE AREA.
Woolie:
This whole games struggle is “but it works”.
I don’t even think it was the arrows, it was Jin riding him into the ground after he was wounded that did it
So for the fun of it, I looked up the effects of wolfbane poisoning, and it doesn’t actually do what it does in game. I see no mention of puking up blood, but from what I understand, wolfsbane is very fast acting, and it messes up with nerves, who go in a sort of “always on” state. So you convulse, puke and shit your pants, followed by weakness and numbness. So you shake in your own shit and vomit for a while, because the poison delivers its combo finisher with paralysis of the heart and/or respiratory system, causing death by asphyxia. Pretty fucking shitty way to die, not gonna lie bro….
He was a true digital deluxe patriot
This scene in particular was just so damn good
Billy “The only strong pull out game, is no pull out game at all” Minh 2020
“Hey, Uncle, I took out the entire fortress all by myself!”
‘Why is there blood on all of their mouths?’
“Um… lots of gut stabbing?”
“This will be your horse for the rest of your journey” uh huh, sure game
I think the issue of Honor vs. Survival is mostly one of spirituality.
If you believe in an afterlife that judges you by your actions, than the idea of your actions being a pure mathematical equation of what saves the most lives becomes less viable.
Mainly because all life is temporary. No matter how long you manage to survive, it’s still a brief moment in comparison to an eternity in your afterlife. And the people and soldiers whose lives you are saving, their ultimate fate doesn’t change because you saved their lives.
Being killed by Mongols doesn’t damn those they kill. But by saving lives in a dishonorable manner, you are damning yourself, and those that choose to follow you to an eternity of punishment in the afterlife determined by their dishonorable actions.
It’s a metaphysical example of “Some good now, more bad later.” Saving temporary lives by damning eternal souls.
Of course, if you don’t believe in that kind of, or any afterlife, then yeah. Whatever saves the most lives is the most pragmatic approach.
What happened with Samurai and guns is that the lords that commanded the Samurai, as well as many Samurai themselves took one good look at how much more they were winning with firearms, and then told the Samurai “Yo this shit’s pretty sick. Its now honorable combat.” and the Samurai were like “Ok.”. And that was that.
The whole thing with Samurai en masse finding guns dishonorable like, never happened. Or if it did, it was very short lived. They *loved* rifles. They were many things but they weren’t stupid, like Shimura.