The dialogue, how the cut scenes are shot, the mission stories and more all, at the very least, evoke memories of classics like Yojimbo, Sword of Doom, Three Outlaw Samurai and Seven Samurai ...
"The Sword of Doom" (1966) A ronin is walking through a pine forest. He shuffles forward using suriashi, maintaining a good maai, or distance between them, and as one of the samurai attacks him ...