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Fu Xi, Taigong Wang, Taira no Kiyomori, Nu Wa, and the SW2:XL Cast added!


FU XI


My armor matches my sword now.

NU WA


Nu Wa's back and she's pissed that her hand maiden is serving Orochi

Whining about the new movesets SXH, just play with the old ones! All of them!

Now if they'd only add Ma Dai, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, Deng Ai, Chen Wu, Guo Huai, Wang Ping, Xu Sheng, and Nobuyuki Sanada to this.

quote SadXuHuang

We could call it WO2 since it seems to have a new storyline, but the official title is...

English translation:
"Warriors Orochi: Rebirth of the Demon Lord"

Even though it is Koei shamelessly milking the franchise (WO was supposed to be a PS2 farewell!), I'm still excited. Partly because with no PS3, I can't enjoy the half-made DW6. SW2:XL just became almost obsolete with their new cast members joining WO2.

The biggest draw of WO:RotDL--

VERSUS mode!

Look at the screen below Nu Wa! Looks like that mode is DW/SW returning to its PS1 roots of a side-view fighting game! Now like Marvel vs. Capcom or Tekken Tag with allies you can swap in.

Other new stuff: (info stolen from KW)

• New Fighting System:
  • Assistant Attack - ally pops in for a cheap smack
    
    
  • Combination Attack - All 3 characters you choose appear at the same time and release an ultimate musou attack.

• New Modes:
  • Versus Mode
    
    
  • Survival Mode
    
    
  • Dramatic Mode

• New stages, and the new characters (some may be still hidden!)

KW explains:
On the left is Taigong Wang, a Chinese semi-myth figure who was also known as Jiang Ziya. His weapon is a fishing rod. Oh, and for a fun fact, he is Tai in Mystic Heroes (old PS2 Koei game).

The right one is Taira no Kiyomori, a general in the Heian Period. His weapon is a big rosary.

BlackKite explains character details:
Kiyomori is planning to revive Orochi. Taigong Wang comes to the crossover world in order to prevent Orochi's revival.

This message was edited by BrokenKnights on Feb 16 2008.

This message was edited by Balambgirl(moderator) on May 27 2008.

As of today, there are 88 characters. This is what nearly 90 characters look like:

Shu

Zhao Yun
Guan Yu
Zhang Fei
Zhuge Liang
Liu Bei
Ma Chao
Huang Zhong
Jiang Wei
Wei Yan
Pang Tong
Yue Ying
Guan Ping
Xing Cai

Wei

Xiahou Dun
Dian Wei
Xu Zhu
Cao Cao
Xiahou Yuan
Zhang Liao
Sima Yi
Xu Huang
Zhang He
Zhen Ji
Cao Ren
Cao Pi
Pang De

Wu

Zhou Yu
Lu Xun
Taishi Ci
Sun Shang Xiang
Sun Jian
Sun Quan
Lu Meng
Gan Ning
Huang Gai
Sun Ce
Da Qiao
Xiao Qiao
Zhou Tai
Ling Tong

Other

Diao Chan
Lu Bu
Dong Zhuo
Yuan Shao
Zhang Jiao
Meng Huo
Zhu Rong
Zuo Ci

SW1

Hanzo Hattori
Keiji Maeda
Kenshin Uesugi
Magoichi Saika
Masamune Date
Mitsuhide Akechi
Nobunaga Oda
No
Okuni
Oichi
Ranmaru Mori
Shingen Takeda
Yukimura Sanada
Kunoichi
Goemon Ishikawa

SW1:XL

Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Ina
Tadakatsu Honda
Yoshimoto Imagawa

SW2

Ginchiyo Tachibana
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Kanetsugu Naoe
Kotaro Fuma
Musashi Miyamoto
Mitsunari Ishida
Nagamasa Azai
Nene
Sakon Shima
Yoshihiro Shimazu

SW2:XL

Gracia Hosokawa
Katsuie Shibata
Kojiro Sasaki
Motochika Chosokabe
Toshiie Maeda

Legend

Da Ji
Fu Xi
Kiyomori Taira
Nu Wa
Orochi
Sun Wukong
Taigong Wang (Jiang Ziya)
Yoshitsune Minamoto

This message was edited by SadXuHuang on Mar 12 2008.

I hope in this game characters are a challenge to unlock. Not just finishing a level, finishing it in style, like how you unlocked Musahi Miyamoto on the first game. It may have been annoying when one of the guys died but hey it made the game last longer.

For the second time, this game has NOTHING to do with DW6. It is just all the PS2 characters in one game.

That would be nice. I'm really glad they are making new characters for this game. What sort of challenges would you like to see people being unlocked by?

Opening Lu Bu and Tadekatsu in the last game was great, more characters being opened as a process through more than one level would be good IMO, that'll make it longer and harder. Perhaps all the levels would be from one musou though so that a character will join a specific faction.

Also, since the characters are already in factions, won't they want to fight with you? Unless they want to defect, there wouldn't be any "winning over a characters heart" type missions as they're already all happy where they start...so I'm not quite sure how characters would be unlocked when you already start with them as such...if you know what I mean...

Yes, since the members of each faction was already decided on where are they going to be, will all the characters be intially unlocked from the start? Or maybe some of the characters will be captured again, and then you have to rescue them, thus unlocking them afterwards?

the hand maiden of nu wa is da ji???
But i remember is another person....or not?

quote Balambgirl

The story worked well as the 'rescue' of the characters added some more interesting stipulations to the missions, like the rescue of lady No in the Wu story in WO, i thought the challenges like defeating all the messengers made it more interesting.

Yup I agree. Completely different sort of sub missions within the main aim enhanced the levels like protecting or killing messengers, supply troops or peasants (although many times I failed a level because of those weaklings Opening Keiji was a great level IMO, I'd like to see more like that

Time to add another character to the list!

New Character: Yoshitsune Minamoto




It is like he has the Cao Ren version of a Gundam Beam saber...



credit BlackKite of KW for the info:
Introducing the Gold Saint, Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Details on Versus & Survival Modes. Apparently, Survival = Versus until you are KOed.

Also, details on useable items that can be used after getting by pressing L3. Why am I reminded of Naruto: Narutimate Hero? (Ultimate Ninja in US)



This message was edited by SadXuHuang on Feb 27 2008.

I loved unlocking Keiji! Musahi was a different story though.