An unfortunate misstep from Team Ninja. The best thing it does is evoke games that did what Ronin is trying to do, but did it better. For the price of Ronin new you can probably find both Nioh games and Wo Long. I advise you go that route.

Side rant: Video games need to abandon narratives built around "political intrigue." I do not give a shit. Witcher 3 did it right. The political stuff is there but it's ultimately incidental. The focus of the story is on the characters. If see one more game filled with medium-shot conversations about factions and strategies and blah blah blah I'm going to rip my eyeballs out.