Great game but some awful character design and incosistent writing.

[Darren Evans]

A lot of the characters are good but there are some truly minimum-viable-effort examples of character design such as Gennojo. All the writers for this game really should be working from the same design spec. As it is, the writing was probably done by a disparate bunch of teams with no clear, unifying vision for narrative tone for both voice acting and dialogue.

Gennojo's dialogue and voice acting is truly awful, sticking out like a sore thumb from many of the other characters. You have the option of romancing him and you can also recruit him, I wanted to not have anything to do with this cardboard-cutout, cliche character that was likely designed by someone on a deadline, short on time on a Friday afternoon who is thinking about nothing but a weekend on the town.

He has the type of accent you see in a lot of cheesy Japanese movies that have English dubs with Japanese actors trying to imitate an American accent. He comes across as a smarmy, western, wise cracking frat boy, with modern slang such as '♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥', 'watching you cut down samurai is making me hot', saying 'nope' instead of no, the list goes on.

Of all the opponents I've assassinated prior to meeting this badly designed walking cliche, taking this guy out would have been the most gratifying.

[CONJONES]

Bro the clock is ticking before you can refund

[MaSeKind]

Are you playing with English voices? I chose the immersive mode and it's been very nice imo. I did hear somewhere that for most of the characters the Japanese actors also did the English voices so maybe that's the problem. They aren't really proficient in doing English vo. But no idea if that's true or not