Yellow paint: it's the scourge of our time. Or at least, that's what I've gathered from [[link]] the approximately 4,000,000 online arguments that are happening about it at any given moment. People—some people—really don't love it when games splash helpful dashes of yellow on every surface you can climb on, calling it daft and immersion-breaking.
Which, hey, I kind of get, and I confess that the sheer volume of lemon daubed across the walls and trees of has stood out to me, a little. But in a chat with , the game's creative director Jonathan Dumont says there's a real good reason for it: we're idiots.
So that's that explained. It doesn't quite explain who's been nailing planks to all the trees in Japan and painting those too, but hey, whatever. At the end of the day, I struggle to get too het up about these things, and if a splash of paint can help players have an easier time navigating the many freerunnable [[link]] surfaces of Sengoku-era Japan, I guess that's all to the good.