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ssjevot posted...

The floor is completely wrong. Although the Muromachi period did start to see tatami rooms beyond just a sleeping and sitting tatami, they absolutely did not look like this. Additionally sitting in seiza was not a standardized thing until much later in the Edo period. The way the samurai are sitting here would never happen in a period drama made in Japan. It's a very obvious mistake. You can look up sitting samurai from the period and will notice that cross legged sitting, agura, is by far the most common at that time. Seiza was facilitated by the full tatami rooms that became standard in the Edo period and the rules requiring it followed that development.

If video game companies are going to make titles that take place in Japan, they need to hire more people who have a deeper understanding of the country's history and culture. I still remember Japanese fans making fun of the first Tomb Raider reboot because of Himiko anachronistically looking like a geisha.