Samurai Romanesque is the first commercial mobile massive multiplaying game, allowing the player to play as a

Samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...

in the

Sengoku era The was the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as the period's start ...

. Players could go online and battle in a match of up to 50 players in a war between nations. A server is capable of holding thousands of players at any given time.

Gameplay

Players start the game training offline to perform tasks to improve performance and to prepare online. When the player enters online, they may explore towns, talk, trade, and fight NPCs and other players. The players may also find the opposite sex in the game to marry and give birth to a child, which inherits the players stats. A character can live to 40 years old, as the character passes away, the players can take control of their child with their inherited stats. Another feature in the game is its incorporation of real time weather.

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has worked together with the Japanese Weather Association to use the weather data in Japan to affect the games weather. The weather would also affect some part of the character. For Example, if it rained, the players wouldn't be able to use firearms as gunpowder would get wet or have difficulty traveling to places quicker, as the roads would get muddy.

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Game.watch.impress.co.jp- Japan Inc, A Weather-Affected, Massively Multiplayer, Java-Based i-Mode Game
2001 video games J2ME games Japan-exclusive video games Massively multiplayer online games Video games about samurai Video games developed in Japan Video games set in feudal Japan