I originally ended my Sengoku Basara retrospective at
Sengoku Basara 4 because the main series and all the English media was already
covered and the last game, Sanada Yukimura Den, is story-focused when fan
translations are already incomplete and sparse for Sengoku Basara 4, which is
still more than Sanada Yukimura Den got.
Since then I discovered a miracle.
An app for the iphone that, in a way, breaks through Capcom’s attempt to
stop American players from enjoying Sengoku Basara 4: the translate app.
With the translate app, players can take pictures of the
screen as the dialogue appears and form halfway comprehensible translation of
all the text. It doesn’t make the
Japanese voice acting any better, but with the help of the translation app I
can finally understand and somewhat enjoy the stories of Sengoku Basara 4,
which, it turns out, are wonderful.
Sengoku Basara 4’s stories have something for everyone. It has stories that are funny, sad, cute,
awesome and everything in between. It’s
a pain to have to take constant pictures of the screen as the dialogue goes
along and it doesn’t alleviate the depression of Capcom’s vicious betrayal, but
it does make it partiallypossible to play the game to the potential it was made
to be played.
It also means that Sengoku Basara: Sanada Yukimura Den is on
the table. Now that I can understand
this more story-centric game, I can give my thoughts on it proper.
