I like how it starts with traditional Japanese instruments and during the course of the track some western instruments are added into the mix. It's like Westernization of Japan put into a soundtrack. This composition is genius.
I couldn't agree more with this comment- shogun 2 is one of the best strategy games, it and company of heroes 1 stand and the top of the pillar of strategy's.
RaDicalXG Hace 1 segundo Its been years and i gotta say in retrospection Fots still the most fun i had in a total war gam:, ironclad naval battles, chewing armies with armstrongs and gatling guns, coastal bombarments and all of that with an stellar soundtrack, so good...
Ruling mountains tremble in fear The sun is rising A new era dawns. Waves of foreign seas sweep over the land Traditions washed away Buried in the sands of time.
When Fall of the Samurai came out. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the game and DLC. Sad that Shogun 2 only had two DLC Expansion Games. Wish they had more though. But in the end, Fall of the Samurai was awesome.
The winds of change have swirled in Japan as eddies in an ever turning pool. For centuries she pursued war and found inner peace. She perfected her art. Bushido. The way of the Warrior. The world around her sought more. They sought death, abomination. When the winds of change came in 1854 they brought the tide before a tsunami. When war came in 1868, the storm broke out and like a ship at sea; she capsized. She would right herself. As she had always done. With a sadness and longing for the past.
Damn I get this theme, the music progresses from traditional flutes and the lute thing to like military drums and more horns, really cool theme that when I just want to read the FotS faction descriptions, I usually end up playing another game.
Yeah and looked what happen. The seeds of destruction that were sole was to come decades later and would eventually bite them in the ass. Some might disagree with me. But when you think of it. It makes all sense.
They never really forced their culture on them, the US merely opened Japans ports. The Japanese modernized themselves, and lost some of their traditions on the way.
SPQRconsul7 Yeah, cause they knew that the GUN was mighter than the sword. The Imperial loyalist knew that with modern weapons they can win the Boshin War. However, as I mention earlier, the seeds of destruction were planted when Japan modernized.
SPQRconsul7 In 1853 the americans arrived on Japanese soil where they, indeed, proposed to trade with Japan but the Emperor or Shogun (i'm not sure) refused and America came back later with some battleships to destroy Japanese ports and force a trade agreement.
Brecht Kreynen Yes, they refused the first time, so Matthew Perry came back with Battleships and threatned them if they didn't accept the agreement, the people who accepted the agreement however, were there on behalf of the Shogunate. Hence how the Boshin war started. The Emperor was put into power because the people of Japan did not feel that the Shogunate could make the best decisions for Japan (i.e, opening their ports to the West).
Ebb and Flow crushes mountains, grinding them away piece by piece. Till one day a mountain will become the sand on a coast and the two will act in harmony together.
Good analysis but I wouldn't describe the events that took place around the Meiji restoration as "harmony". It was the opposite. It was new ideas and new technology being forced upon the traditional and peaceful way living in Japan. And naturally many Japanese citizens detested the changes and sort to resist them. Even to the death for many samurai warriors.
