Fantastic game. It's like this game marks the moment the series just realizes its potential in the gameplay and improves on it. Story is great with villains like Guilderstern and Ranmaru being a delight, the Samanosuke/Jacques duality is fun, length is just right and doesn't overstay its welcome, great soundtrack, tons of unlockables, WAY better voice acting than the first 2 games, etc. Simply a masterpiece.