I want to stay upon the gore, this is actually a reader question (thanks, Strange Sultan): If they wanted the killing to be so real, why did they remove the dismemberment? Whats your take on that?
Think about the reality of the dismemberment. The way it was presented in the past games, you would lop off some limbs and then, the enemies would still come back at you to blow themselves up and do more damage. Thats not realistic in itself. It was fun and were not saying it wasnt fun and that it wasnt good, it was a good system at the time.
I keep going back to visceral brutality and that you get a different feel, a different emotional connection if youre just lopping off limbs from a faceless enemy or youre going in to push a button to get that final cut into a humans body. Its not easy to cut off, to cut through bones.
And thats what were trying to show with the steel on bones sequences as you get that katana stuck in peoples bones and it gets caught in the muscles and you have to push through for that final cut while the enemy is there less than a metre away. Thats more of the brutality we want to show.