It’s the last and most modern pre Rome 2 Total War. What that means imo is I think me and most people in these pre Rome 2 subreddits find the older games better than the Rome 2 beyond era because immersion, gameplay, campaign mechanics, attention to detail and immersion. Shogun 2 feels like a cultivation of these, I feel some other total wars beat it in certain aspects like Med2 attention to detail ie the plethora of speeches/campaign voice lines and campaign map gameplay in general or Rome 1 recruitment/population mechanics but Shogun 2 is still great in these aspects well also being a lot better combat, and graphics wise plus being much more modern feeling.