An old man with a bizarre name and a clichéd heritage visits our samurai-teaching hero, called (funnily enough) Hiro Miyamoto. Via in-game cutscenes the old man relays the plot and your mission – to rescue his daughter and wield the time-travelling sword known as Daikatana against some dictatorial chap.
Then he gets capped.
You try to stow away in his coffin to enter the fortress where things will take place, but obviously this doesn’t quite go according to plan, as you somehow end up in a swamp. Why do they store dead people in the dictator’s fortress? And why would you jump in a coffin for some old man who could be making up all this tripe for all you know? Good question…