i hope they give japan another go in the future, this time set during the meiji restoration. I feel this is an often overlooked and under-studied period of Japan’s history (compared to the more popular sengoku period anyway) that was ripe with tumultuous change like the fall of the shogunate and restoration of imperial power, the opening of the country to the west, and rapid industrialization. all that i think would’ve made for a solid blueprint to incorporating the assassin-templar conflict, while still giving players ninjas and shit.

i mean I get why shadows opted for sengoku as it’s a well-known and popular era, and the suits thought it would sell more, but i think a meiji restoration setting would’ve been more unique and memorable.

cool writeup. i’d like to add that at the board level discretes aren’t really used unless you’re shooting for certain performance characteristics (like low noise) or application or doing it for funsies. the op amp current source you showed remains king – so king that it’s even used at the chip level, where it would make most economical sense to just use two to four transistors, to provide a stable master current reference.