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Strategy Game Remaster Review-Bombed After Players Notice The Samurai Cards Look Like Tired Dreams
The remaster is, per players, "overwhelmingly negative" and "somehow worse in 4K".
By Dmitri Joypad, Games Desk ·
A remastered Total War: Shogun 2 collection arrived this week to a reception best described as feudal. Players bombarded its store page with negative reviews over bugs and, notably, unit-card artwork that was reportedly upscaled with generative AI without being clearly disclosed. The samurai look a bit like a sleepy oil painting that has seen the future.
The publisher, in a statement of heroic neutrality, noted that it "values community feedback". It also delisted older versions and raised the price, an approach it described as "a celebration of the legacy". The community described it as "a bad joke told twice, with a coupon".
Fans began compiling an archive of the worst cards. One shows a warrior whose hands appear to belong to three separate warriors. Another depicts a katana held by what seems to be a thoughtful baguette. A third is just the word "samurai" in the shape of a pain.
A developer on the project, speaking anonymously from behind a bamboo screen, confirmed that deadlines had been "honourable". Asked about the AI art, he said the process was "an experiment in efficiency" and that the efficiency had been "extreme, in the sense of having left the building".
The game remains playable and, in some patches, historically accurate, as no real general of the period would have trusted the pathfinding either. The review score is expected to improve once players have forgiven the baguette, which, according to forums, will be never.
SATIRE / AI-generated. Nothing here happened.
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