this week's Console Archives title: the 1991 FC/NES adaptation of Koei's Napoleonic strategy game, L'Empereur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_kHSnM6zQ there's an EN version, at least...
possibly yeah, the JP patch is up but it might take another ~8rs or so for the rest of the world to catch up
btw this is probably info for nobody but when I was looking into the fate of Soleil (ex-Team Ninja, basically Devil's Third studio minus Itagaki), I noticed that a bunch of them look to have been poached/jumped ship to a GungHo studio formed for the specific purpose of continued Ninjala dev
there's at least one more interview out there for me to potentially get to, too, but idk how many instances of Yamada not actually saying anything about the core combat are necessary