Way of the Samurai 4, the Glossary
is a video game developed by Acquire and published by Spike for the PlayStation 3.[1]
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53 relations: Acquire (company), Action-adventure game, Bakumatsu, Blacksmith, Casino, Daikan, Daimyo, Dojo, Downloadable content, Duke, Futon, Game Developer (website), Hanafuda, Hero, Hijikata Toshizō, Japan, Katana, Kondō Isami, Metacritic, Microsoft Windows, Musket, Nippon Ichi Software, Noriyuki Asakura, Okada Izō, Pistol, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, Poker, Rōnin, Rising Star Games, Royal Navy, Sakamoto Ryōma, Samurai, Shinsengumi, Shogun, Single-player video game, Slow motion, Sonnō jōi, Spike (company), Tairō, Torture, Tsujigiri, Turtle, United Kingdom, Water wheel, Way of the Samurai, Way of the Samurai 2, Way of the Samurai 3, Wooden horse (device), Xseed Games, ... Expand index (3 more) »
- Acquire (company) games
- Chunsoft games
- Ghostlight games
- Video games scored by Noriyuki Asakura
Acquire (company)
is a Japanese video game developer and publisher, mainly known for their Tenchu and Way of the Samurai series.
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Action-adventure game
An action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres.
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Bakumatsu
was the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.
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Blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith).
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Casino
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling.
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Daikan
Daikan (代官) was an official in ancient Japan that acted on behalf of a ruling monarch or a lord at the post they had been appointed to.
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Daimyo
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings.
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Dojo
A is a hall or place for immersive learning, experiential learning, or meditation.
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Downloadable content
Downloadable content (DLC) is additional content created for an already released video game, distributed through the Internet by the game's publisher.
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Duke
Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility.
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Futon
A is a traditional Japanese style of bedding.
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Game Developer (website)
Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.
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Hanafuda
(flower cards) are a type of Japanese playing cards.
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Hero
A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.
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Hijikata Toshizō
was a Japanese warrior.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Katana
A is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.
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Kondō Isami
was a Japanese swordsman and samurai of the late Edo period.
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour.
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Nippon Ichi Software
is a Japanese video game developer and publisher.
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Noriyuki Asakura
is a Japanese composer and vocalist, best known for composing the soundtracks to the anime series Rurouni Kenshin and the video game franchises Tenchu and Way of the Samurai.
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Okada Izō
was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period.
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Pistol
A pistol is a type of handgun, characterised by a barrel with an integral chamber.
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PlayStation 3
The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.
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PlayStation Network
PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
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Poker
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules.
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Rōnin
In feudal Japan (1185–1868), a rōnin (浪人,, 'drifter' or 'wandering man') was a samurai who had no lord or master and in some cases, had also severed all links with his family or clan.
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Rising Star Games
Rising Star Games Limited is a British video game publisher based in Hitchin.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Sakamoto Ryōma
was a Japanese samurai, a shishi and influential figure of the Bakumatsu, and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period.
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Samurai
were soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including ''daimyo'') in Feudal Japan.
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Shinsengumi
The was a small, elite group of swordsmen that was organized by commoners and low rank samurai, commissioned by the (military government) during Japan's Bakumatsu period (late Tokugawa shogunate) in 1863.
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Shogun
Shogun (shōgun), officially, was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.
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Single-player video game
A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.
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Slow motion
Slow motion (commonly abbreviated as slo-mo or slow-mo) is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down.
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Sonnō jōi
was a yojijukugo (four-character compound) phrase used as the rallying cry and slogan of a political movement in Japan in the 1850s and 1860s, during the Bakumatsu period.
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Spike (company)
was a Japanese video game developer and publisher.
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Tairō
Tairō ("great elder") was a high-ranking official position in the Tokugawa shogunate government of Japan, roughly comparable to the office of prime minister.
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Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.
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Tsujigiri
Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally "crossroads killing") is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time.
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Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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Water wheel
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.
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Way of the Samurai
Way of the Samurai, known in Japan as, is a PlayStation 2 action-adventure game developed by Acquire and released in 2002. Way of the Samurai 4 and Way of the Samurai are Acquire (company) games, video games about samurai, video games scored by Noriyuki Asakura, video games set in feudal Japan and video games with historical settings.
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Way of the Samurai 2
is a PlayStation 2 (PS2) action-adventure game released in 2003. Way of the Samurai 4 and Way of the Samurai 2 are Acquire (company) games, video games about samurai, video games scored by Noriyuki Asakura, video games set in feudal Japan and video games with historical settings.
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Way of the Samurai 3
Way of the Samurai 3 (Japanese: 侍道3, Hepburn: Samurai Dou 3) is a video game made by Acquire, released by Spike on November 13, 2008, in Japan for the PlayStation 3, and later ported to the Xbox 360. Way of the Samurai 4 and Way of the Samurai 3 are Acquire (company) games, Ghostlight games, Rising Star Games games, video games about samurai, video games scored by Noriyuki Asakura, video games set in feudal Japan and video games with historical settings.
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Wooden horse (device)
A wooden horse, Chevalet (as it was called in Spain), Spanish donkey or cavalletto squarciapalle is a torture device, of which there exist two variations; both inflict pain by using the subject's own weight by keeping the legs open, tied with ropes from above, while lowering down the subject.
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Xseed Games
Xseed Games is an American video game company founded by former members of Square Enix USA.
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Yari
is the term for a traditionally-made Japanese blade (日本刀; nihontō) in the form of a spear, or more specifically, the straight-headed spear.
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Yobai
was an ancient Japanese custom usually practiced by young unmarried people.
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Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country's most populous municipality.
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See also
Acquire (company) games
- Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault
- Akiba's Beat
- Akiba's Trip
- Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed
- Clan of Champions
- Class of Heroes
- Divine Gate
- Kamiwaza
- Mind Zero
- Octopath Traveler
- Octopath Traveler II
- Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent
- Orgarhythm
- Patchwork Heroes
- Rain (video game)
- Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen
- Shinobido: Tales of the Ninja
- Shinobido: Way of the Ninja
- Sumioni: Demon Arts
- Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins
- Tenchu: Shadow Assassins
- Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
- Way of the Samurai
- Way of the Samurai 2
- Way of the Samurai 3
- Way of the Samurai 4
- What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord?
- What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? 2
- Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
Chunsoft games
- 428: Shibuya Scramble
- 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
- Banshee's Last Cry
- Dragon Quest (video game)
- Dragon Quest II
- Dragon Quest III
- Dragon Quest IV
- Dragon Quest V
- Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin
- Homeland (video game)
- Imabikisō
- Jesus (video game)
- Machi (video game)
- Mystery Dungeon
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
- Otogirisō
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Adventure Team
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness
- Shiren the Wanderer
- Shiren the Wanderer (2008 video game)
- Shiren the Wanderer 2: Shiren's Castle and the Oni Invasion
- Shiren the Wanderer 4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel
- Shiren the Wanderer GB2: Magic Castle of the Desert
- Shiren the Wanderer GB: Monster of Moonlight Village
- Shiren the Wanderer Gaiden: Asuka the Swordswoman
- Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
- The Nightmare of Druaga
- The Portopia Serial Murder Case
- Torneko's Great Adventure
- Torneko's Great Adventure 3
- Torneko: The Last Hope
- Way of the Samurai 4
- Wii Play: Motion
- Zero Escape
- Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Ghostlight games
- Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos
- Cubixx HD
- Fairy Fencer F
- Fate/Extra
- Lost Dimension
- Mary Skelter: Nightmares
- Mugen Souls
- Omega Quintet
- Persona 2: Innocent Sin
- Persona 3
- Record of Agarest War
- Record of Agarest War 2
- Record of Agarest War Zero
- Revelations: Persona
- Shadow Hearts: From the New World
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
- Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God
- Spectral Souls: Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires
- Spinout (video game)
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
- The Plan (video game)
- Tokyo Xanadu
- Way of the Samurai 3
- Way of the Samurai 4
Video games scored by Noriyuki Asakura
- Capcom Fighting Evolution
- Crime Crackers
- Natural Doctrine
- Samurai Western
- Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins
- Tenchu: Shadow Assassins
- Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
- Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
- Way of the Samurai
- Way of the Samurai 2
- Way of the Samurai 3
- Way of the Samurai 4