
Their beginnings are actually rather humble: Todo Takatora was an ashigaru, a peasant footsoldier, during the great wars of the Sengoku Jidai. The Todo clan, rulers of the Tsu domain, cannot claim a proud samurai lineage like many of the other great clans of Japan.

But RPS is a very old website, so you can check if this whole saga thing is for you by reading a diary we wrote about the original release, seven years ago. It involved a lot of negotiation with outside nations like America, Britain and France, as a representative of one of two ruling powers: the Shogunate and the Imperial throne.Īnyone who already owned the game on Steam will receive all the faction packs as a free gift, but other than that there’s not much else to it. Th DLC-turned-game is set during the Boshin War, just as modern Japan was beginning to properly deal with its place in the world. In fact, Fall Of The Samurai is representative because it's that DLC that the Saga series has been attempting to ape. The Total War Saga series of games focus tightly on a historical ‘flashpoint’ for the player to dive into, such as the fight to become the new British king in last year's Total War Saga: Thrones Of Britannia. The game was previously released seven years ago as a standalone Total War: Shogun 2 spin-off, but Creative Assembly felt the game was representative of what they’re trying to do with their recent Saga series.

2012’s Total War: Shogun 2 – Fall of the Samurai DLC has been renamed as Total War Saga: Fall Of The Samurai and re-released.
