Revolutionary Warriors
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chuckroFrom the makers of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors comes a beat-em-up featuring the heroes of the American Revolution, with all the historical accuracy you should expect given their previous efforts.
When you start the game, you can play the storyline modes of four characters: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or George Washington. Of the starting characters, George Washington is unquestionably the most broken. He’s this game’s equivalent to Lu Bu or Tadakatsu Honda, except this game lets you start as him. Beating stages with the starting characters unlocks the rest, along with various power-up items and better weapons. (They replace most of the Asian-style powerups from previous games with more setting-appropriate ones, like The General’s Teeth to increase attack power and Franklin’s Spectacles to increase your musou bar.)
Ben Franklin is the “wizard strategist” character, equivalent to Zhuge Liang in the DW games, with a similar “technical” moveset that takes a lot of practice to master, but is devastating when you do. Half of his attacks are based around shooting lightning, which is really to be expected given that his weapon is a kite with a key attached. His True Musou “Summon France” attack must be seen to be believed.
For that matter, there’s a lot of be said for watching the Marquis de Lafayette set people on fire with his baguette.
Hamilton and Aaron Burr are the distance fighters, as both fight with pistols. Burr duel-wields, which is how he gets the upper hands in their climatic duel cutscene. Paul Revere gets the best mounted bonuses, which almost mitigates the absolutely horrible reach on his silver bell weapon.
The selection of female characters is pretty much what you’d expect: Betsy Ross as the chirpy genki girl in a star-spangled miniskirt that resembles anime Wonder Woman. Abigail Adams as the lower-voiced, serious woman (though apparently someone decided that her “pin” weapons should be knitting needles). Molly Pitcher is the badass female character, as her default weapon is a ramrod and her musou attack summons a cannon. Though I suspect that “sexy army uniform” is not a period-accurate costume for Deborah Sampson…
If you finish every storyline stage, it unlocks the first hidden character, Abraham Lincoln (who fights with a broadsword). If you unlock every item and weapon, the game rewards you with the second hidden character, Lady Liberty. I’m guessing in this interpretation she turned green because of gamma radiation, given that she’s the highest-strength character in the game and can jump twice as far as a horse.
The missions are pretty standard fare—half of the stages look like they were reskinned from earlier games. It’s probably for the best that you can ride your horse or run across the Delaware, because the boat moves insanely slowly and the British Robo-Bears are devastating in small spaces. Having a second player makes some stages laughable—Jefferson needs to kill 100 redcoats in five minutes to write the Declaration of Independence, but both players can contribute to the count. Also, if you don’t have a second player controlling Benedict Arnold during Betsy Ross’s mission to stop the British from cracking the Liberty Bell, it is literally impossible to get her fourth weapon: He’ll turn traitor and immediately kill the guy who drops it before you can get there.
Overall: Wouldn’t be awesome if this game existed?
When you start the game, you can play the storyline modes of four characters: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or George Washington. Of the starting characters, George Washington is unquestionably the most broken. He’s this game’s equivalent to Lu Bu or Tadakatsu Honda, except this game lets you start as him. Beating stages with the starting characters unlocks the rest, along with various power-up items and better weapons. (They replace most of the Asian-style powerups from previous games with more setting-appropriate ones, like The General’s Teeth to increase attack power and Franklin’s Spectacles to increase your musou bar.)
Ben Franklin is the “wizard strategist” character, equivalent to Zhuge Liang in the DW games, with a similar “technical” moveset that takes a lot of practice to master, but is devastating when you do. Half of his attacks are based around shooting lightning, which is really to be expected given that his weapon is a kite with a key attached. His True Musou “Summon France” attack must be seen to be believed.
For that matter, there’s a lot of be said for watching the Marquis de Lafayette set people on fire with his baguette.
Hamilton and Aaron Burr are the distance fighters, as both fight with pistols. Burr duel-wields, which is how he gets the upper hands in their climatic duel cutscene. Paul Revere gets the best mounted bonuses, which almost mitigates the absolutely horrible reach on his silver bell weapon.
The selection of female characters is pretty much what you’d expect: Betsy Ross as the chirpy genki girl in a star-spangled miniskirt that resembles anime Wonder Woman. Abigail Adams as the lower-voiced, serious woman (though apparently someone decided that her “pin” weapons should be knitting needles). Molly Pitcher is the badass female character, as her default weapon is a ramrod and her musou attack summons a cannon. Though I suspect that “sexy army uniform” is not a period-accurate costume for Deborah Sampson…
If you finish every storyline stage, it unlocks the first hidden character, Abraham Lincoln (who fights with a broadsword). If you unlock every item and weapon, the game rewards you with the second hidden character, Lady Liberty. I’m guessing in this interpretation she turned green because of gamma radiation, given that she’s the highest-strength character in the game and can jump twice as far as a horse.
The missions are pretty standard fare—half of the stages look like they were reskinned from earlier games. It’s probably for the best that you can ride your horse or run across the Delaware, because the boat moves insanely slowly and the British Robo-Bears are devastating in small spaces. Having a second player makes some stages laughable—Jefferson needs to kill 100 redcoats in five minutes to write the Declaration of Independence, but both players can contribute to the count. Also, if you don’t have a second player controlling Benedict Arnold during Betsy Ross’s mission to stop the British from cracking the Liberty Bell, it is literally impossible to get her fourth weapon: He’ll turn traitor and immediately kill the guy who drops it before you can get there.
Overall: Wouldn’t be awesome if this game existed?
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Date: 2011-06-27 01:49 am (UTC)(Also: I need an icon of George Washington wearing Lu Bu's hat.)