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Warriors Orochi 3
In the world populated by heroes from the Three Kingdoms and Warring States periods created by Orochi, a dread hydra has emerged and killed off nearly everyone. A mystic appears and gives the last survivors a ray of hope: The ability to change history and win battles that were lost, so their companions survive and can lend their strength to destroy the hydra.
Systems are standard for the series and almost everything I wanted has returned: Two-player local co-op (mandatory), lots of unlockables, interesting special moves and variety in fighting, none of that platforming nonsense, and the ability to whistle for your horse. The only thing that didn’t return was English dubbed voiceovers, which would really have been nice. (I’m pretty sure I missed a lot of the character development and some of the plot, because I was too busy killing things to read all of the dialogue during battles.)
After you finish Chapter 1, battles start getting trickier—they throw in ones where your allies will die and you’ll auto-fail the mission if you don’t rush to help them fast enough, or ones where the victory conditions change partway through and you need to zoom after an escaping enemy.
Having run out of Three Kingdoms and Warring States noteworthy people, they’ve begun adding characters from other games and legends: Achilles, for instance. A character who appears to be Ryu from Ninja Gaiden. Joan of Arc and the French army. And Nezha, who I can’t place but is just as broken as Sun Wukong.
We played through most of the game on Easy, and some stages on Normal, but barely touched Hard. The difference between Normal and Hard modes, especially on the lower-star levels, is really absurd. We can get totally smashed by mooks in a 3-star Hard level, then take the same party and glide through Normal level like there’s nothing there.
Favorite characters: Jethrien liked Ayane, Zhong Hui, Zhang Jiao, Okuni, and latecomer Yueying. I loved my old standbys like Guan Yu and Keiji Meada, but newcomers like Guan Suo and Cao Pi also ended up seeing a lot of play time. Man of Peerless Might Tadakatsu Honda and “Axe of Kill Everything” Xu Huang were also mainstays.
Overall: I think the first two games of the series were marginally better because they had English voiceovers, but this was a worthy addition to the franchise. We’ve been playing it for the better part of this year.
Systems are standard for the series and almost everything I wanted has returned: Two-player local co-op (mandatory), lots of unlockables, interesting special moves and variety in fighting, none of that platforming nonsense, and the ability to whistle for your horse. The only thing that didn’t return was English dubbed voiceovers, which would really have been nice. (I’m pretty sure I missed a lot of the character development and some of the plot, because I was too busy killing things to read all of the dialogue during battles.)
After you finish Chapter 1, battles start getting trickier—they throw in ones where your allies will die and you’ll auto-fail the mission if you don’t rush to help them fast enough, or ones where the victory conditions change partway through and you need to zoom after an escaping enemy.
Having run out of Three Kingdoms and Warring States noteworthy people, they’ve begun adding characters from other games and legends: Achilles, for instance. A character who appears to be Ryu from Ninja Gaiden. Joan of Arc and the French army. And Nezha, who I can’t place but is just as broken as Sun Wukong.
We played through most of the game on Easy, and some stages on Normal, but barely touched Hard. The difference between Normal and Hard modes, especially on the lower-star levels, is really absurd. We can get totally smashed by mooks in a 3-star Hard level, then take the same party and glide through Normal level like there’s nothing there.
Favorite characters: Jethrien liked Ayane, Zhong Hui, Zhang Jiao, Okuni, and latecomer Yueying. I loved my old standbys like Guan Yu and Keiji Meada, but newcomers like Guan Suo and Cao Pi also ended up seeing a lot of play time. Man of Peerless Might Tadakatsu Honda and “Axe of Kill Everything” Xu Huang were also mainstays.
Overall: I think the first two games of the series were marginally better because they had English voiceovers, but this was a worthy addition to the franchise. We’ve been playing it for the better part of this year.