Samurai Warriors 5 - Nobunaga's Path | Battle of Okehazama (Part 7)

It's weird to have a stage that's normally the first stage in Nobunaga's story be the 7th stage. Okehazama is a pretty big battle and they do something interesting where when you ambush Yoshimoto, it's actually Hanzo in disguise. It throws the player for a loop, which I approve of. It's hard to surprise someone when they've seen this story several times over already.

We start with Nobunaga and get Toshiie as our secondary playable character a little ways in. When we clear through the stage and finally fight Yoshimoto, you'll notice he has two health bars, which is generally only given to important bosses. Makes them feel a bit more threatening, and they power up when they're on their second bar. That said I think I just powered through him with musous lol.

After this, we get Yoshimoto's sword, and the katana becomes one of Nobunaga's preferred weapons, which means he has unique attacks for it. However, you can't equip it at first because it's too high rank and I prefer not to use it because if you did, then both he and Mitsuhide would be sharing the same moveset. And I don't want to willingly make the two leads clones of each other. In fact, I don't really like the katana moveset being used by anyone other than Mitsuhide because it has several of his moves from previous SW games in it, so it feels like it should be HIS moveset. Instead, there are quite a few characters that have it as their preferred weapon so you'll already see the moveset a lot as it is.