Yet they chose to highlight the scimitar thrower on camels
But the gunpowder units and Qing dynasty clothing in EE didn’t pass. So there was still a boundary of how much creative freedom you can have.
An excellent example of how they are taking feedback from fans, and how they are trying to tune the game to have a more authentic depiction (rather than cater to a wider audience).
No need to do PR for WE if they are not paying you the salary (SUS), especially when their own real PR didn’t do their jobs.
If they really listened to player feedback, they would not have went completely deaf since the 3K backlash (a full fantasy take in their best historical game with two pathetically downplayed real historical civs as a “bonus”)
They only listen to major backlashes and $$$$$$$.
AOMEE was handled very long ago by likely very different people so they could have the freedom to revert it. But they would double-down on their own decisions. It took a huge fight just to make them change two of the four questionable variant “civ” names, and one of them actually became worse.
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Amaterasu Statue
Tsukuyomi Statue
Susanoo Statue
Oni Upgrade
Itsumade (more close-up look)
Spider-Lady Antagonist-Hero (unfortunately no myth unit)
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The statues look beautiful! The stork with a human face is unsettling. Looks like a snapchat filter 
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Indeed, Japanese castles weren’t invented until the Sengoku era. Before then, there were only fortified outposts in Japan.
Now, if we’re talking about the mythological era, in Japan it would be before 700 A.D.
Regarding the samurai armor and castles and the anachronism, they can justify it with the excuse that “technology was lost” and everything went back to ruin at some point; the same logic that I suppose would be used with the Norse or with the technology of the Three Kingdoms era of China during the Xia Dynasty.
In their mythology at least there are mentions of magical fortresses, such as the Onigashima Island in the Momotaro story, the Dragon King’s Castle, Princess Kushinada’s Fortress and the Orochi, etc., etc.
So far, we haven’t seen the entire roster of Japanese units—just the samurai, spearmen, horsemen, and archers—but I expect they’ll have more, like a secondary ranged unit and cavalry unit, or the role of the Shintoist priest.
I hope there aren’t any firearms, though; that would be going too far.
Honestly should be a cheat unit. 
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