You will want to learn about your enemies before your battle via the game’s information pages prior to launching a mission and prepare yourself accordingly. Here, all of the weapons are assigned an affinity of Heaven, Earth, or Man each one is strong against one affinity and strong against the other. The sheer amount of weapons combined with the game’s “three point system", helps adds some depth to the game in a fashion similar to rock / paper / scissors. It is simply mindless fun, with a bit of strategy added in for those who want to dig for it as you can unlock and manage hundreds of weapons amongst your roster. There aren’t any overly-complicated mechanics to worry yourself with no detailed button strings to learn aside from combo patterns (which are all laid out in the pause menu) and easy to trigger EX attacks that show off your characters’ true power. Hacking and slashing your way through (literally) hundreds of enemies at a time is about as fun as it gets.
However, to be honest, that has become a bit of a staple for the franchise it is in the gameplay department that things excel and draw in the legions of the fans that the series has formed. This all plays out over a heavy metal soundtrack that maintains an intense pacing from start to finish.Īs usual with nearly all Dynasty Warrior games, the writing is laughably bad and the voice overs (at least the English track) are horrid. You are given the control to determine the outcomes through your gameplay, although the amount of branching done overall is sort of limited. This basically basically amounts to an exaggerated retelling of factual events, with a ton of style. Once again, you are tasked with playing out historic battles from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms saga.
On the positive side of things, it features every bit of the content that was packed into the PS3 and PS4 versions of the game, including more than 80 playable characters, tons of modes, and enough replay value to keep you busy for months (literally).
This direct port of the console versions of the game, which can be both good and bad. The Vita version in particular is a nice addition to the franchises family, but unfortunately is falls short of the greatness that the console version(s) of the same game achieve.
Now, a year later, the game is getting both an update in the form of the Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends (DW8XL) and being ported to two the PS4 and the Vita. When Dynasty Warriors 8 was released last year, it received rave reviews among fans of the series and was widely labeled as one of the, if not the, best entry in the franchise.
Did you know that there are nearly 40 games that have been released in the Dynasty Warriors franchise? Since the original, one-on-one fighter was released on the original PlayStation back in 1997, there have been a TON of sequels and spin-offs for the series and fans of the tale have poured hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into the franchise.