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00:00The game will focus on the central part of Japan, the Kansai, for those who know a little
00:08bit more, which will cover the city of Kyoto, the city of Osaka, and then the northern and
00:13southern coastlines of Japan.
00:15We wanted to have a much more realistic proportion to our world, so mountains feeling like mountains,
00:20forests feeling a little bit bigger.
00:22So the Portuguese got here a few years before our time period, and they're expanding.
00:26We're in a very important place of history in Japan because Japan is weakened by clan wars.
00:31The unification of Japan through Oda Nobunaga is also something to prevent Japan falling
00:36into the hands of foreign interests.
00:38So Oda Nobunaga, he's known as the first unifier.
00:41Ultimately, he says that he wants peace for Japan.
00:44On the other side, Wu is facing him, or Wu is suffering that peace, I would say.
00:49The aftermath of the war will have our main character, Naoe, try to convince herself that
00:54she's not on a vengeance path against Oda, and she made a promise to her father that
00:58she wants to fulfill.
00:59So the promise will take her across the world, and she will see that they're not the only
01:04one that suffered from war, and that Oda's not the only one that gained from war.
01:07You survived the fall of Iga.
01:11Not many of our neighbors did.
01:13The assassins have been in Japan for a little bit of a longer time, and we'll discover why,
01:19and we'll discover how, you know, and we'll discover how it's tied to Naoe as she goes
01:23through her adventure.
01:24Obviously, if you say that the assassins were in Japan, the Templars were probably in Japan
01:27as well, and we will see how they emerge from that.
01:32So Yasuke is a very interesting character.
01:34He comes in as Wudejizu, and then he will be offered an opportunity to join Oda Nobunaga.
01:41As he ventures into the world, Yasuke is always confronted to different situations, and he
01:45tries to analyze them from, you know, what's the just thing to do.
01:49Yasuke comes from the outside, so he knows about Japan a little bit, but he doesn't know
01:52everything about Japan.
01:53As an example, Yasuke will always be polite with nobles, you know, always do the right
01:58steps in presentation and all that, and Naoe will just jump in, half-bow to stuff, and
02:03just she could insult somebody that she shouldn't be insulting.
02:06He's tired of teaching children with no other virtue than their name.
02:11Yes, she's a young, naive person, but she's very brash and very confident.
02:14But later in the game, when she starts to meet important people who, in the social hierarchy,
02:20would be way above her, she needs to treat them with deference and respect.
02:24But is she doing it authentically, or is she doing it to get what she wants?
02:28And that subtlety is something I think we really try to focus on.
02:31We want the audience to understand when Naoe is faking it, and when she's being, like,
02:35really authentically deferent to someone.
02:37It's all very focused on their eye performance, as well as their facial performance.
02:42And in doing so, we've really kind of changed the way a lot of these cutscenes feel.
02:45And when these characters talk, you want to listen, because you need to pay attention
02:49on what exactly they're looking at, right?
02:52Our style is very much inspired by traditional Japanese films, in terms of their storytelling,
02:57but the film techniques are a little bit more modern.
03:00Originally, we went looking, we found the Samurai Trilogy by Hiroshi Inagaki, which
03:04is from the 50s.
03:05The camera was very motivated, it was constantly moving, and they used, like, whip pans and
03:11crash zooms, like, techniques that nowadays are considered, like, a little passé, but
03:15are very modern techniques.
03:16So I think I was very interested in seeing how we could use that in our game.
03:22As the story will unfold, there are a few surprises that we want to really keep for
03:27our fans that are very important.
03:29One of them that I'll just hint towards is that Yasuke's story is not necessarily what
03:34it seems to be at the start.
03:36So there are different things that will come with Yasuke's story.
03:39And Naoe's story, it will be a discovery for her of what her family was, who were really
03:46her parents.
03:47So that's something that will be very important to the heart of the game.
03:50How do you feel?
03:52Calmer.
03:53Lighter.
03:54That happens when you empty your head of the past.
03:58You see the world for what it is now.