This causes all sorts ofhavoc as gods and monsterschaseKubo who, in order tosurvive, must locateamagical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.
This leads to various missions involving your binocular-camera, a suit of fire-deflecting Samuraiarmor, and various other tools at your disposal, including your wits.
Its presentation (by museum designer Keith Crippen and his team) successfully captures the mix of craftsmanship, functionality and drama inherent in samuraiarmor and weaponry, at times drawing our attention to a striking helmet in the shape of a rising wave or a horse mask with horns and flaring nostrils, at other times wowing us with full sets of armor.
As for the samurai themselves, beauty of armor and fierceness of countenance reinforced their own quasimythical status and helped them keep alive their sense of purpose.