Straight Swords for Samurai?

[Kolsykol]

Japan did have straight blades, particularly early on it's year 1000+ where you started seeing the blades in Japan become more curved as a standard.
But even later swords were sometimes straight too.

I'd actually really like to see them too they were more similar to Chinese swords.
Katanas are cool and all but they're not the only sword-type that existed in Japan.

Obviously the Samurai used Katanas but I mean we have Paladins ( and Samurai ) running around with what might as well be lightsabers.
It's not like we're talking about a historical game.

I have a theory that the reason they seem to do crossover weapons for the tanks (the samurai sword [whose name escapes me] for the DRK; the 'cricket bat' for the PLD, and so on) is to entice people to play those classes more. I, too, would like to see more diversity in weapons - particularly a big broadsword for warriors (because... why not), and a mace for paladins (because YES), but some regular swords for Samurai would be okay, too.

The problem is, I think they - unsurprisingly - hold the Samurai as kind of a culturally sacred class, and thus may be reluctant to meddle with its aesthetic too much. You're right - Endwalker will definitely tell us more.

You say that, but Japanese media is full of teenage schoolgirls who are essentially Samurai lol.
It's not exactly like the swords in the game are historically accurate either to begin with.

On a cultural level I think the more significant part is the values and overall mannerism that matters more than the aesthetic.