The developers detail the changes inan update post on Steam.

It was a strange choice.

Not least because Capcom’s reptilian wrecker hasa lush and gorgeous world, just like Shadows.

Naoe sits on horseback with a tower in the distance on a hillside.

But maybe that doesn’t matter to you at all.

Go get your brain.

It’s important to have a brain.

Yasuke on horseback traveling through a town street in the rain.

Instead of what it could be: a journey, sojourn, a pilgrimage.

You control your horse and your brain is focused.

You activate auto-follow and your brain thinks: now what?

Naoe walks with a young daimyo lord through torii and bamboo.