They have weird customs as well - a samurai told me off for having barbaric manners and then urinated over me! Then he ordered me to take a bath - in public! Like if a chap loses a game of ping-pong he's likely to impale himself! And their only punishment is death, usually by an extremely painful method like being boiled alive. You see, these Japs are strange folk with an odd sense of honour. The first task is to steer the Erasmus safely through dangerous reefs and tidal waves to try and reach Japan.īut if you thought life on the ocean waves was hazardous, as a European in Japan your life is permanently hanging by the thinnest threads. Worse still, after sailing for weeks without sight of land, the ship is caught in a terrible storm. The surviving crew are starving and Captain Spillbergen is dying. But the journey has cost many lives already. Their knowledge of the Asian seaways is top secret information, but you have a stolen Portuguese rutter which has helped make you the first Englishman to successfully sail through the Straits of Magellan into the Pacific. In the year 1600 the Pacific Ocean is dominated by Spain and Portugal. Remember old Richard Chamberlain (housewives faint all over the country) in the epic TV drama where he sailed a ship to Japan and got involved with the war between two leaders to rule the country? Well, this game is based on the same book (by James Clavell) as the TV series.Īs John Blackthorne (Richard Chamberlain) you are the Pilot-Major of a Dutch trading ship, the Erasmus.
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