*Story, setting, trivia etc
- There are scenes from pre-crisis Katsuie (before his failed rebellion) too, he was pretty wild type all laughing "Fuhahaha!", saying lines like "I am the king of the world!" etc. After the rebellion he gets emo, and 99% of his lines are dark too.
- Okamoto was surprised because he heard that in Basara seiyuus have to scream a lot and it's a threat to their throat, but his script was full of "...." and whispered lines, plus many names and words very hard to read (Yokai names, etc)
- One of the lines by Katsuie said live by Okamoto are from his self intro: "Oda Army advance platoon....Shibata Katsuie...I come as a spiral of wind..." (I know the last part is weird, but that's what he says.."tsumuji mairu"
- Other lines he said sound like "You have failed against the failed Shibata...meaning, you are worth less than nothing..." (Failed Shibata is originally "Kakari Shibata": one of his real nicknames, "Charging Shibata", but in this line it's spelled with a kanji meaning "missing, imperfect, lacking")
"another me disappears...but I myself cannot..." (I suppose he says this when a unit is KOed? (someone "like him" ))
- Katsuie's rebellion was apparently instigated by Yoshiteru. This will be shown in the story too: after the failure, he falls so low that even random soldiers talk him down, diss him etc.
- He will have a story route where he finds hope again too, but basically his stories will be on the dark side.
- His eyes look dead too, and many other chars point that out a lot.
- The guy/gal who wrote the report said that judging from the demo he seemed like a male Oichi.
- Mitsunari has a line to Ieyasu (probably) saying "There is no friendship between you and I! I have others I call friends!" which promptly prompted speculation about who this friend is. Sakon? Gyobu?
*Gameplay
- If you charge Katsuie's skills the number of blades attacking the enemy changes, apparently. 2 blades, 3 blades, 4 blades...like this. It's unclear if the naginata's blades increase or it's just a special effect thing.
- Sakon can move around while riding on enemies' shoulders. Looks pretty surreal.
- The "pyramids" and other formations enemy soldiers form crumble easily, it's apparently a pretty cool effect.
- Also, there was a black&white Japanese-style drawing screenshot with the words "Dragon King Western Curse Basara-zu", right? KobaP blurted that it appears when a dual skill is performed :P (or when they use their Basara at the same time? It seems there's a Masamune/Katsuie one too. Still TBC)
- There seems to be an "attack avoided" effect, leaving behind after-images of the player (in the vid, Masamune is seen doing it)