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The minigames don’t suck

Like a lot of other sandbox games, Way of the Samurai 3 keeps its action varied by throwing in a few simple minigames, which are useful mainly for earning money. A few of them are excruciating, like the ones in which someone tosses vegetables at you (along with stone lanterns, for some reason) to chop or dodge. But the aforementioned sword-catching is fun, as is – strangely enough – ringing a giant bell with carefully timed swings of a huge log.

Above: More enjoyable than it looks

You’ll also occasionally be asked to fillet a giant tuna, something that can rapidly level up your sword skills while giving you something to just haul off and violently slice apart.