Somthing I like to mention, is that I’ve heard that Margit( horn guy) is referred to as an Oni in the Japanese version of game. I don’t know how true that is but I thought I mention it.

Ninjas are cool, but samurai have always been my jam. Ever since I watched Samurai Jack with my dad as a kid, I just couldn't get enough of the bizarre world of Japanese Culture

Kensai from For Honor pleeeeeeeesssssssseeeeeeeeeeee.

Satsuki and his blade Mikoto from demons souls along with the area he appears in.

EXCELLENT video Gaijin. I'm gonna have to check out a lot more of your videos & streams in the future since Unexpectables is ending this week. That was my first exposure to you outside of TFS's Moustache music video

There's also a lot of celtic/Welsh influence. The way a lot of names are spelled and pronounced are from gaelic spellings and pronunciations

@@captainmorg95 yep. Limgrave has heavy Anglo-Celtic influences, Liurnia and Caelid are swamps like western Belarus, Altus and Gelmir compose what is largely a Balkan-style karst formation, and the snowy mountains and the Haligtree are much more Scandinavian or alpine.

I seen a video earlier today discussing the idea that a lot of Elden ring’s themes, characters and plotlines might of been influenced by alchemy drawings and texts.

They really draw from a lot to make this game. I really appreciate their dedication to crafting it. I'm reading a lot of tolkien and he also drew a lot from different culture in his effort to craft an anglo-legend. But his stuff has clear inspiration from Greeks, Romans, and some stories read like eastern myths and legends as well

@@allengordon6929 I think Gaijin only knowledgeable in Japanese culture and history though.

My maid wields a katana sounds like an awesome title for an anime!

@@malikdespanie4344 oh for sure. someone get on that!

Yep like they had Kurosawa's movie as a major influence and if anything shaped the modern pop culture view of samurai it's his work.

I first noticed that as a kid when I saw the last samurai and thought, wow, those helmets look like Darth Vader's

YES

Mandalorians especially the ones from Star Wars Legend could pass off more as samurais if you ask me.

@@TheRoboticPizza I mean The Mandalorian is literally just Lone Wolf and Cub mixed with space western after all

Horseback Archery became pretty irrelevant after the introduction of Ashigaru and eventually Tanegashima

@@jeremiahooms4716 Definitely not. Even after the Tanegashima rifles become popular, horseback archers are still a viable unit for a shock cavalry attack.

Foreigners often get it wrong, but it varies depending on the period. The Sengoku period uses bows and spears because it's a large group versus large group. During the Edo period and the Bakumatsu period, the situation became person-to-person, so swords were mainly used. Bows were not used during the Edo period or Bakumatsu period. Kenjutsu Dojos and many Ryuha(style) were established during the Edo period. Many famous swordsmen were born during the Edo period. Of course, swords were used a lot during hand-to-hand combat during the Sengoku period. Therefore, it is wrong that foreigners often say that samurai do not mainly use swords. During the Edo period and Bakumatsu, swords were mainly used. Shinsengumi is a good example. Four manslayer of the Bakumats are also famous.

​@@novrinkov0053 In short, swords are not THE main weapon, but ONE OF the main weapons.

Let me add KyoryuGold/Utsusemimaru from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, and pretty much any of the 5 core members of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.

I would love to see one on Usagi. He has his own comic that is still going today.

Yasuo. Yone, Or Master Yi [League of legends]

In Soul Calibur, which already is masterclass in intuitive-feeling combat over the more traditional competitive fighting game standard, Mitsurugi and Yoshimitsu play that strength out really well.

*JetStream Sam Hell Yeah*

I think this video is about how the samurai class is true or not to history. It is not about how the creators intended for it to be realistic. In which ninja accidental accomplishments are given.

Just make them a gnome and get a centaur buddy

@@nicholascordero6600 i was thinking halfling honestly

Theres a youtube channel called D4 who does D&D builds. His latest one is actually a mount and rider combo.

Samurai always struck me as heavily armored mounted rangers rather than knight equivalents.

@@allengordon6929 Early on they were. Later on they turned more similar to knights though they did still uses mounted archery.

it's a composite bow, isn't it?

@@MaxRavenclaw Not really. It's not like there are layers of different woods, horn, sinew, similar. It's AFAIK, just bamboo stripes glued together.

If I recall correctly, though them pull is asymmetrical the total draw weight equaled out. It allowed the samurai to use a more powerful long bow on horse instead of sacrificing range and power. Its not a perfect one to one with English long bows, but still far stronger then a short bow. Its power optimized for a role basically.

I heard that it could Allow samurai to duck and kneel behind shielded walls while allowing them to fire at full force but safely

The Scyth were the first Horseback archers

I don't think the land of reeds is supposed to be in Europe

@@Romapolitan agreed. its probably meant to be a land far away known for its unique flora and being a fairly wet land. i mean, if you were some traveler from europe who had no idea about bamboo and were seeing these people using garments made of these thin long strands of plant based material from a large plant that seemed very similar to the reeds you have seen in ponds and marshes, which...well...bamboo forests tend to have a lot of moisture feeding them, you might naturally call the place a land of reeds. even if they learned more of the lands later on, its almost certain that the name land of reeds stuck in the european style conciousness. like i imagine a china style might be considered in this setting a land of silks, or the great walled lands. honestly i imagine if elden ring does get dlc, it will likely be taking players to lands beyond the core setting, probably by boat or magical means to these far off locations like the land of reads with very different architecture and asthetic locations, along with different weapons, armour, lore, and creatures. Imagine the land of reeds with these strange bizarre yokai, or perhaps the golden lands to the far west with massive temples and greenstone, where blood sacrifice is common and wild feather and beast skin garbed warriors lashing out with ferocity and weapons of wood and stone or tipped with hardened volcanic glass, facing massive feathered snakes and other terrifying beasts based on Mesoamerica and aztec/mayan culture. starting with a very european style starting area means that should we go outside of its area, the lands we enter are likely to contrast well with it. and of course, from those lands, you bring back knowledge and ideas that might change things dramatically. Imagine what happens if you went to somewhere like a china analoge and brought back a weapon that could create and explosion that launches a projectile that can pierce armours and cause significant damage, how might that change how you build or fight using it. it is not going to be some elaborate flintlock of course, but a firearm is going to shift balance by its presence.

@@Motleydoll123 I think if there were dlc it would still be connected to the lands between. Fromsoftware typically do not differ to much from the main game when they make dlcs and it is always an addition to the main lore.

@@Motleydoll123 Ah I see.

@@Romapolitan I mean, it would be cool to see them go to other places nevertheless.

That look like India tiger claw.

I assume that's a Demoman weapon? "Half Zatoichi" is then also a joke about Demoman having only 1 eye, as Zatoichi is essentially the most famous blind swordsman character in Japanese fiction (in fact, the iaijutsu footage at 13:07 is from a Zatoichi film).

@@Kefkaesque13 demo and Soldier share that one.

You should also check out Metatron's Iaido videos.

There's more than just Kenshin there, too. Saito was a real life samurai, for example.

I found a description of Saito's striking technique, that i was able to use on my buddy in kenjutsu sparring. Basically, you use a righthanded lower grip on the saya to launch into a surprise thrust. Sort of like a southpaw strike for tachi. Mind, i found this description while reading up on Kenshin, so it is possible that the historical authenticety is nil, but the technique itself was doable and practical. No idea how one would perform Souji's one-step-triple-bisection though. That sounds either completely fictional, or like a romantication of a longer technique performed fast.

The live action movies of rurouni kenshin delved into realistic swordsfight a bit too much that the only actual 'technique' that is clearly visible and distinguishable were just Hajime Saito's sword thrust and Shisioh's fire sword. Each character does have their own unique fighting style to emulate the fantasy techniques in the anime though. Like Kenshin uses a lot of agile jump and slide as well as quick repeating strikes while only falling back to batoujutsu for a finishing strike, Saito would use his sword thrust but without the exaggerated pose at the beginning, and Sanosuke is often seen grappling and punching his opponent like an unrefined but strong ruffian. Not that I mind, given that it's live action movie and is leaning to the drama side of rurouni kenshin more than the comedy.

Samurai starting armour is not the best by any means it’s probably one of the worst and you should switch it straight away for the knight set you can buy in Roundtable hold

is this really his first samurai video? I could swear I saw one before

And I'm glad to see you back!