THE GOOD:Better graphics
Further visual range
Unique stories for every character
More enemies onscreen
Added combo's
Additional costumes
New Mousou Rage
Co-op Mousou (Story Mode)
6 new characters
Better items
Better bodyguards
Chaos difficulty
THE BAD:
Bad acting
Glitchy moments
No create-a-character
No create-a-bodyguard
Repetitive
No Versus Mode
SUMMARY:
This installment of the game has been greatly improved, the graphics have become more colorful, and detailed, making the game look that much better. Their clothes will flow around when you run, and since people expectations for graphics are rising, good graphics for games is needed.
The further visual range is from Koei removing the fog that the older DW games used to have, and in doing so you can see enemies way off in the distance, or far away structures. I believe that this really helps as it got very annoying in the other installments when you could only see around ten feet in front of you, so this is a big improvement. I can now freely enjoy watching hundreds of soldiers run at me!
Each and every character has their very own, unique story each with 5 levels, which all take around 30 minutes to complete, but compare all 48 characters at 30 minutes a level with 5 levels you get a lot of hours! Since each character has a unique story it will never be the same experience, unlike past installments. Each also have their very own ending!
Now the fun has been improved as you will be able to cut through even more enemies onscreen, nothing is more satisfying than pulling off a huge combo in a group of 50 soldiers and just decimating them! Which is now possible, though some enemies still just appear onscreen right in front of you.
Their is a newly introduced 9 hit combo called the Evolution attack, which can be obtained by having your general equipped with a special weapon. Its more of a longer combo stream, which adds up to 9 hits. This is very fun to use because usually after each combo set you open to attack, but if you have longer combo's you won't be open to attack, which is needed in harder difficulties.
Each and every character has 4 costumes, some look cooler than others, but all together they add diversity to the already diverse game. You can leave a character with his original costume or you can give them a costume which from older Dynasty Warrior games, choose which ever one looks best.
The new Musou Rage is from collecting a certain relic from the battle field which gives you this ability to become super powerful for a short burst. Your attack doubles, you defense increases, you Musou gage gets filled, and your allowed to use you True Musou when initiated, by pressing R3 and L3 at the same time. This is a very fun feature as it helps to take down some of the very difficult generals, or if your near death, so you can save yourself.
With an additional Co-op you and your friend can play together to beat each generals Story Mode. This helps a lot when you are playing on a harder difficulty as each individual can perform different takes, making it much easier. This is very fun! however, you can't compete against each other.
The 6 new characters adds upon the long list of characters to add the total up to 48, giving the game a huge selection to choose from. With the added list of characters you will always have time to level up each and every character.
While lots of the older items have been returned some newer ones have been introduced. One that I can think of is the Tiger Amulet, which gives you the ability to have a pet tiger follow you around the battlefield, which will fight and kill others for you. All the items are essential if you want to make your character the ultimate fighter. Their is four orbs with in the game, one which sets your enemies on fire when you initiate a combo, one that freezes them, one that kills troops while depleting Musou, and another that breaks opponents blocks. Their is also horse saddles that you can get letting you start the battle on a particular horse. Do you choose the speed of Red Hare, or the power of the Elephant?
You can have up to the maximum of 8 bodyguards, but you are only allowed to take one of them on the battlefield at a time. While upgrading your bodyguard they can gain certain attributes, such as raise the moral of the army, or heal you. Their is four different classes, and four different levels for each bodyguard. Some level up faster than others, while others can gain higher experience. Their is a mixture of boy and girl bodyguards, those who are warriors, archers, and magicians, each with special abilities.
The Chaos Difficulty is a step above that of Hard, it is a difficulty that we Hardcore gamers can enjoy. From the insanely powerful soldiers, to the even stronger generals, its a difficult difficulty indeed. You might find yourself being beat by a small group of soldiers at first, so a leveled up character is needed.
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Now to the bad parts of the game. The acting is probably one of the biggest draw backs to the game and always has been. To how odd the powerful Lu Bu's voice sound, or how much a simple female sounds like an 8 year old. Even the characters with good voice acting sound unrelentingly horrible.
Their is also a few glitchy moments within the game were the game freezes, but such occasions are very rare, and shouldn't be viewed as much of a distraction. I still have it listed because it is still however their, thou minor.
Probably the two biggest mistakes that Koei made was from removing their create-a-character and create-a-bodyguard. Not only did these modes add to the reply value of the game, they gave us gamers something more to do. You could select the weapons of you character, what kind of armor they have, even what they looked like. Though it wasn't the greatest, it was still fun, and yet Koei just had to remove. Hopefully the next installment will have this feature returned.
This game is very repetitive as you'll find yourself doing the same task every level, "destroy enemies on battlefield, help out allies, kill commander," which the game seems to hold true to that statement. However each and every level is still somehow different. Some require to break through castle walls, and go on the offensive, while others have you become defensive, and hold you ground. So their is some variety in that.
This one really disappointed me, and that's when they removed Versus Mode. I have always loved playing my friends using my favorite character, and just making them look like some sissy's. In the past versus, they had team versus, destroy/defend carriage, and fight in the dark. I just don't see why they had any reason to remove it from this game, I honestly find this very disappointing.
Rated: T
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