Tell me you haven't played the game without telling me. You have a brief period of time with Yasuke in the prologue and then you're able t💫o explore the open world for as long as you want with Naoe before you get access to him again.

No way could you have played this and be saying it🎐 is centered around him. I played almost 20 hrs without him unlocked.

I completely disagree. I love a meticulous stealth approach with Naoe but some of the castles in this game are massive and after having done several back to back I found myself burned out on try♐ing to stay in stealth while tracking down Daisho. Being able to say screw it let me just cut down everyone in my way once I unblocked Yasuke was a breathe a fresh air. He's op but it has yet to get stale for me.