Warriors both local and from faraway lands arrive on godforsaken shores, fog swirling across the waters like ghostly snakes. As most warriors, one way or another, you answer the call of help from the daimyo, Kibou Matsuzaka. Wako pirates, rival daimyos and various powers vied for control over his heavily-contested domain. Despite empty coffers and endless problems, he promises a heavenly reward.
Several vessels--triremes, longships, galleons, bunes--swerve betwixt ghost ships and sharpened logs jutting out the waters. Some ships strike obstacles, throwing their crews overboard. Luckier vessels crash into sands riddled with cobwebs. The transports pierce beaches infested with demonic arachnids scuttling away from the hulls.
The local and foreign warriors leap from their ships or swim ashore, some giant spiders splatting apart underfoot. Bug guts and sand kicked about, the assembly easily hack their way through the phalanx of oversized critters, cutting through curtains of webs.
Giant spiders emerge from the shifting beach, pulling some attackers into quicksand. Yet, you push on. Amid fog billowing as if the land breathed, your current objective is simple: find the half-demon, half-human kensei, Meiko. Help her slay the whoreish arachnid corrupting this contorted island...