G-Dai Warrior

Plot Outline
G-Dai Warrior takes place in GenisuVerse-Chanbarap, an alternate history universe chock full of anachronism in EVERY place around the world, not just Japan where GDW takes place.

One year ago, as the Sengoku Jidai wages on, there has been an incident at Honno-ji where Nobunaga, daimyo of the Oda clan and destined unifyer of Japan, has been lured to his doom by his former general Akechi. At the burning temple of Honno-ji, Akechi murdered Nobunaga in cold blood. This devastated Yasuke, who was a faithful and completely respectful retainer of Nobunaga ever since he started life as a rookie samurai thanks to the latter, that his former ally Akechi would flip off the Oda daimyo and bring the Oda to a fall like that. A week after such a treacherous event, Yasuke confronted Akechi and the two battled to the death until things came to a draw, at the cost of Yasuke having to give up his own sword as requested Akechi and taken to Nanbanji with his rank as samurai revoked.

A year has passed and Yasuke, who's been residing with the rest of Nanbanji's affiliates, is mourning Nobunaga's death, especially considering that Nobunaga was fair towards these foreigners who entered Japan with supplies and guns that he's been admittedly fascinated by. One Jesuit gives Yasuke a second opportunity as samurai after having lost that status last year. Given a new sword, Yasuke gets his rank back and is walking the Land of the Rising Sun, hoping to get answers from Akechi about why he would betray the Oda. Meanwhile Akechi has become a pariah amongst his countrymen and has felt so much guilt for his murderous treachery against Nobunaga that he is now on a path of self-atonement. Will Yasuke and Akechi finally settle the scores between eachother?

While all of this is going on, Hiyoshi Toyotomi, macdaddy and Toyotomi daimyo, is on the path of succeeding Nobunaga's ambition to unify the country. The only problem however is that Hiyoshi is a corrupt daimyo and he only cares about himself and how he wants Japan to turn into in his rule and that is reshaping the land the way he sees fit. Some people (be they good people or bad people) are blindly loyal to him while some others are aware of his shadiness to the point of not even trusting him and then there's some who are... indifferent about the whole thing. Will there be an uprising against the crafty daimyo and his wicked ambitions?

Gameplay
As I've stated before, G-Dai Warrior is basically a 2.5D version of Epic Blades, making it my second 2.5D project (the first was Cyber Cataclysm, BTW). Like Epic Blades however, G-Dai Warrior does take inspiration from both Mortal Kombat, SoulCalibur, Samurai Shodown and Last Blade. GDW also has shades of Sengoku Basara (it's an anachronistic take on the Sengoku period) and animes Samurai Champloo and Afro Samurai (hip-hop themes ahoy!).

There are three types of finishing moves every character has that are reminiscent to what three finisher types characters in Epic Blades have. First off is its own fatalities called "Chop-N'-Screws", named after a rap technique which is of course named after DJ Screw (and no, DO NOT associate this fatality concept with T-Pain's song Chopped n' Skrewed just because of the name!) The only differences between EB's Vanquishments and GDW's Chop-N'-Screws is that Chop-N'-Screw sequences are not followed up by victory sequences in the end. So like the fatalities in MKX as well as my Cyber Cataclysm, after the Chop-N'-Screw sequence is done, it's done. Like EB's Vanquishments though, Chop-N'-Screws are cinematic in nature and each character has only ONE Chop-N'-Screw. Second is its equivelant to Epic Blades's Quick Deaths called "Fast-Kuts" and these Fast-Kuts actually share more in common with MKX's Brutalities than the Quick Deaths in EB do (in addition to GDW being 2.5D that is). Finally, we have "Seppukus", GDW's equivalent to the Auto-Slays, in which you make your opponent commit suicide, not unlike the Hara-Kiris in Mortal Kombat: Deception. Also, like the Brutalities in MKX, Fast-Kuts end with a character's victory pose.

Rosters
Here is the default cast of the core roster. 12 of them are the default characters whereas there will be 6 secret characters but we're only focusing on the starter ones for now. So here they are!

Playable

 * Aiko Nanami
 * Akechi
 * GoeMan
 * Hamon
 * Jukimaru
 * Kage-Katsu
 * Mio Chinatsu
 * Suka Benja
 * Yagyu
 * Yasuke
 * Yuki Sanada
 * Zanin

Exclusive Quests

 * Lyn (Fire Emblem)
 * Hunteer (Bloodborne)
 * Kaim Argonar (Lost Odyssey)
 * Yurnero the Juggernaut (DOTA2)