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"Kessen" is Japanese for "decisive battle" - an appropriate title, because the events of the game are built around the most decisive conflict in Japanese history. When you first play the game, you take on the role of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the most powerful warlords in the period of turmoil that preceded the long peace of the Edo period. After the decline in the power of the emperor and the Ashikaga shoguns in the 15th and 16th centuries, Japan was essentially under the control of daimyo, local lords who exerted great influence in a small area - like Germany after the fall of the Holy Roman Emperors, or Italy during the Renaissance. Warlords attempted to unify the country, the most famous and almost successful campaign being waged by Nobunaga Oda in the latter half of the 16th century (the inspiration, of course, for the Nobunaga's Ambition games), but the first man to actually retake total control of Japan was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who picked up where Nobunaga left off after his assassination.
Japanese history is filled
with many stories of war between clans. Many men fought for their honor and for
their loyalty to certain shoguns, while others fought out of hatred and
long-time bitterness against the opposing general. And even others fought for
the ultimate dream of ruling all of Japan. Kessen� is set in the era of the
Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1603) and the Edo period (1603-1867) of Japanese
history. In this story, three classic motives� loyalty, hatred, and
power�spurred on our 2 main characters, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Ieyasu Tokugawa.
The following is a brief summary of the struggles, successes, and failures these
great men experienced.
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