I'm planning to do a "Let's Read" on it at some point. Haven't actually played in ages, but I have Valley of the Mists and pirated copies of Takishido's Debt and Kwaidan (from White Dwarf issue 47). I'm fighting the urge to grab these three new modules since the odds of playing them is low.
I'm not super surprised. Bushido is pretty consistently praised overall and it ties nicely into OSR popularity. As long as FGU has the rights I expect them to milk that puppy for all it's worth.
I second your nomination of Dumarest to create a retroclone and run a PbP of it!
Yep, but it needs some serious TLC.
Sengoku is based on Fuzion, while Bushido is another of FGU's purpose-built setting OSR games. I think that as far as integrating the entire concepts of the setting into the system, Bushido is better hands-down. But it's also one of FGU's purpose-built OSR games, so you get long blocks of double columns of rules and intensely different mini-games built in. Overall, I think it's YMMV and the ability of ANY game to effectively portray the setting remains in the hands of the GM.
I'm not particularly impressed by Fuzion, the system in Sengoku, but the game has a lot of good historical and cultural background material and details on place names, personal names, and so on. There is also an optional "lifepath" character generation method you can use to generate random characters. It's sometimes been handy for me to generate an NPC as it includes nice touches like "Basic Personality," "What Do You Value Most?," "Your World View," "Current Outlook," and other nice facets that help create a unique, rounded individual. The rules also have three settings you can choose from for level of "realism" (as RPGs go): Historic (competent PCs), Chanbara (heroic PCs), and Anime (basically superheroes). There's nothing wrong with it as a game and you could do lots worse, but I prefer Bushido. I have Sengoku mainly to supplement Bushido.
Yes, as well as for Daredevils. Maybe other games as well. I haven't looked into it too much because mainly I check their web site once in a while just in case they ever publish anything for Flashing Blades.
