Japanese games for sure use a lot of standard Japanese symbology -- water as a symbol for death (FFX), etc etc I think for Western games you can kind of think of the main stuff as symbols for jingoist macho posturing.
LOL I wish! It's one of my all-time favourites. Basically it's one of those games that Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami made together and is built in that incredibly convoluted Japanese way where everything is style of substance and has hidden meanings, metaphors and twists and turns. It's a game where you play as an assassin…