After completing the last achievement, I feel the need to write a review.
I Will try to cover different parts of the game. No spoilers.

From the beginning on, I was interested in the Story. It was not just some random stuff that happened. Everything had to do with one another. I never had the feeling that the story is just some sidefiller to justify the missions.
After every mission I wanted to know what happens next. They put a lot of love into the story. I also watched the cutscenes several times when replaying the maps. You kinda feel a bondage to the characters. Their personality makes sense, and it's nice to see them develop from mission to mission.
I also had a very emotinal moment during the story where i wished the story would go different. But it was perfect the way it was. And the parts before and after this moment just filled so good. What should I say, I loved the story ♥

The reason you probably want to play this game is the gameplay. If you are into real-time-strategy, played games like Commandos, Desperados or just like strategy games in general, you will almost sure like this game.
The movement and combat feels very smooth, the more you play the game the smoother it gets.
Also the amount of different options and strategys you can use, makes it very interesting to find out what the game allows you to do. I had a lot of fun trying out different ways to play and finding out new ways to kill or distract your enemies.
Stealth plays a big part in this game. You can try to go full-rampage and not play stealth at all, but I do not think the game is meant to be played like that. That does not mean you can not play very agressive. You can play aggressive, and as long as you don't get fully detected, you can kill everything that comes into your way. Just be fast and think out a good strategy first.
After completing the game for the first time, you can collect "Badges". You will need them to 100% the game, but they are not neccessary to finish the game. If you just want to have a nice time and enjoy the atmosphere, you can skip them. But if you try to get them, you will be forced to play the game very different than you usually would. For me it was a lot of fun to replay the missions in complete different ways, as you also detect some new secret here and there.

If you like middle-age/japanese and calming settings, this game is for you. You get soaked in by the beautiful landscapes and maps. The Audio fits very good into the game. Sadly I discovered too late that you can put the Audio Language on Japanese, because this makes the game a lot better. At least for me. Sometimes I was just looking at the beautiness of the maps and turned the camera in all possible angles to try to detect a secret. And sometimes you even discover some hidden things ;)
Graphics are somewhat decent, but they fit good into the game. Game still looks beautiful.

As you can probably already imagine, I had a lot of fun playing the game. I loved it, got soaked into the world of the samurais and I'll probably replay it from time to time. It's one of the best games I have every played, and that's why I try to write a some-how good review for it.

Story

(96/100)

Gameplay

(97/100)

Controls

(71/100)

Character Movement

(99/100)

Atmosphere

(98/100)

Audio

(90/100)

Graphics

(72/100)

Personal Rating

(97/100)