History VideoGame / WayOfTheSamurai4

* DineAndDash: You have the option to do this after eating a meal at a restaurant or food stand by not paying the bill; doing so is considered a crime and will cause the owner to call for the guards to arrest you.

* SchrodingersCat: In the neutral "As A Demonscale" ending, [[spoiler:the battle tournament was a completely sincere search for people to serve as Kinugawa's elite fighters]]. In any other route, [[spoiler:it's a trap that Kinugawa set up to kill a bunch of people horribly, just ForTheEvulz]].

The fourth entry of the ''Videogame/WayOfTheSamurai'' video game series. This game was first released in Japan for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 on March 3, 2011. A US and European release followed on 21 August and 5 October 2012 respectively. This game is also notable for being the first in the series to receive a PC port, which was released in 2015.

* AlliterativeName: The foreigners are named Laura Lita, Jet Jenkins, and [[BoobsOfSteel Melinda Megamelons]].

* StewedAlive: [[spoiler:Minister Kinugawa does this to the Tournament winners.]]

* CityGuards: Constables and thief-takers fill this role. Committing a crime will result in them blowing a whistle and attempting to arrest you unless you antagonize thugs or underlings, to which the constables/thief-takers will just stand by and let you do your thing. If they succeed, you will be brought to the dungeon run by the torture happy Kinugawa sisters. The thief-takers are replaced with the Demonscale samurai later on, much to the former's frustration. This can prove annoying if you're trying to get new recruits for your dojo as randomly beating them (in reverse-mode only) is the only way to have them take a knee and surrender if they're willing enough and you're allowed three chances to try to have them accept your offer (otherwise they'll just run away), and yet at the same time you have to watch out for the patrolling constables/thief-takers/Demonscales.

* CityGuards: Constables and thief-takers fill this role. Committing a crime will result in them blowing a whistle and attempting to arrest you. If they succeed, you will be brought to the dungeon run by the torture happy Kinugawa sisters. The thief-takers are replaced with the Demonscale samurai later on, much to the former's frustration.

* GuideDangIt: To get to certain endings, especially the hidden GoldenEnding, you need to do oddly specific things, which are kind of hard to stumble upon without a guide.

** There is a rather obscure story path you can take in the beginning which results in you losing your gear. In this case, Dojima must not be the blacksmith and you must give up the tutorial fight against the Prajna's. They then leave your character ChainedToARailway, after which Dojima shows up and saves him. Unfortunately, he decides he will take your weapons as payment for saving your life, resulting in having no gear. If you started a NewGamePlus, you might have some weapons in storage. If not, it's very much this trope.

* BiTheWay: Both women and men can be the subject of the game's [[HotCoffeeMinigame Night Crawling sidequests]] (only unique male [=NPCs=] can be courted, however).

* StewedAlive: [[spoiler:Minister Kinugawa does this to the Tournament winners.]]

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: In the 4th game. The anti-foreign rebels are just trying to protect their nation's sovereignty, while the British diplomats are simply trying to establish peaceful relations with Japan. [[spoiler:The Chief Minister and his daughters, however, are about eleven types of crazy.]]

* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Despite Melinda's tough-as-nails image (and she is really tough), defeating her nonlethally at least four times in the fourth game unlocks her for Night Crawling.

* AmazonBrigade: The Blondie Soldiers in the fourth game is an all-female knight squad fully clad in armor. This being Way of The Samurai though, they're not any more competent than your run-of-the-mill samurai, despite the armor.

* BiTheWay: Both women and men can be the subject of the fourth game's [[HotCoffeeMinigame Night Crawling sidequests]] (only unique male [=NPCs=] can be courted, however).

* ColdBloodedTorture: In the fourth game, if you get arrested, and you don't pay one of the Three Sisters 1,000 funds to let you go (which sister visits you is determined by how low, average, or high the crime rate is), then the sister will subject you to a torture mini-game. What form the torture takes is different depending on which sister is subjecting you to it, and it has been placed in a spoiler to avoid causing discomfort, just in case: [[spoiler:Yuri (youngest sister) uses a horse contraption; Chika (middle sister) uses rocks; and Mayu (oldest sister) uses a waterwheel. However, if you want to "Night Crawl" one of the three sisters, you ''have'' to endure the same sister's torture 3 times and get a high score the third and final time.]]

* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Minister Kinugawa, from the fourth game, kills the winners of his tournament by boiling them alive. He is later seen (provided you didn't die with the other winners) on the tournament grounds enjoying a stew with his daughters.]]
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: ''Almost'' averted in the fourth game. Kinugawa's Ogre Isle revolver is clearly based on British Empire [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley_Revolver Webley]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_revolver Enfield]] revolver. Seeing that the very first models were made in 1880, it is about 20 years away from it being introduced in the army, much less in the private collection of a Japanese Chief Minister. Then again, the period is close enough and both revolvers are seen as the symbol of the waning Empire up until World War 1, so the choice may have been intentional.

The fourth entry of the ''Videogame/WayOfTheSamurai'' video game series. This game was first released in Japan for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 on March 3, 2011. A US and European release followed on 21 August and 5 october 2012 respectively. This game is also notable for being the first in the series to receive a PC port, which was released in 2015.

The game begins with a skirmish between these three factions, while a nameless Ronin just arrives by boat, and somehow gets involved in this fight. After the fighting ends, the ronin has the ability to join one of the three major factions and help the chosen faction with their task, while the story unfolds, based on the choices the player makes. Or the ronin can just muck about, without involving himself with any of the major factions.

!!Way of the Samurai 4 contains examples of:

* BestHerToBedHer: The last step of of Nightcrawling mini-game involves either throwing the woman you want on a bed or hitting them until their clothes come off. Additionally some characters like Sensei or Melinda require you to defeat them in sword fight before they will even give you a chance.

* SpoiledSweet: Laura Lita/Rita is the daughter of a noble from Great Britain, and she's come to Japan as a Goodwill Ambassador to sign a trade agreement. She's also really nice. In fact, the reason the Prajnas are able to grab her at the beginning of the game is because she insists on going ashore to help people who might get hurt in the attack.

** BolivianArmyEnding: Most notably the ending where [[spoiler: the Prajna's attack the British consulate, essentially declaring war upon the British Empire. If certain conditions are met, Akagi, in his dying words, gives the ronin leadership over the Prajna's. A month later, the British invade and the ronin is seen leading the charge against them.]]

* QuickSandbox: Figuring out how this game works can be rather hard for newcomers.