Quote Originally Posted by gumas View Post
in game technical, most samurai in videogames (an anime i guess) is always shown with their common/wandering/ronin clothes too so i think SE just take whichever is more "common" to viewers
Um, no, again. Sorry. As a little history tour, the kind of samurai you have in mind were in Tactics Ogre (weren't even called Samurai in here), Final Fantasy Tactics A2, Bravely Default. These had traditional Japanese (casual) clothing. The more heavily armored, ready for battle, iteration kind of samurai were in: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIII Lightning Returns. There were some grey-area samurai. They weren't explicitly mentioned as one, but were received as one. For example Auron from Final Fantasy X. A majority of the games belonging to Square-Enix donned themselves in Japanese styled (full-body) armor or parts of it the very least. Even in the more recent game like For Honor (not belonging to Square-Enix) the samurai all participate in combat fully armored. If you'd search for some images on google for "Samurai in games" you'd notice the greater share of the images display samurai in armor. Not in their casual clothes. The lightly armored samurai isn't even common in videogames. That kind of samurai is the type romanticized by Hollywood - Or what I call them, at least.

That aside, I'm glad they went for the "historically" correct aesthetics for this. Considering the player characters are adventurers. Historically in quotes, because if they actually went for the absolute correct one only the most rich adventurers who are also nobility would be samurai. And none of us would be sporting a katana and we'd be shooting arrows on horseback instead.