Great music and character models.
It tries to do a lot and it has plenty of technicality to it but ultimately its just not fun nor satisfying to deal with
This is a bad 3D fighting game. The moves feel very stiff and in a sense realistic, but that makes it less fun to play. There are multiple modes but all of them boil down to 1v1 fights between the characters.
The good:
The music and stages are great.
The idea of a fighting game with weapons is cool.
More "realistic" fighting in which some moves are satisfying to pull off.
The bad:
The controls feel very stiff. The game is not responsive enough. I feel like faster characters have an advantage.
The game has no story except for some menu text and ending cutscenes for each character.
Conclusion: I'm not that into fighting games so I can't fully determine the game's quality, but it was not fun to play for me. If you're looking to get into Dynasty Warriors, I suggest to skip this entry, as it's not really relevant to the series and not a good game.
The good:
The music and stages are great.
The idea of a fighting game with weapons is cool.
More "realistic" fighting in which some moves are satisfying to pull off.
The bad:
The controls feel very stiff. The game is not responsive enough. I feel like faster characters have an advantage.
The game has no story except for some menu text and ending cutscenes for each character.
Conclusion: I'm not that into fighting games so I can't fully determine the game's quality, but it was not fun to play for me. If you're looking to get into Dynasty Warriors, I suggest to skip this entry, as it's not really relevant to the series and not a good game.
Do everything in your power to skip this game.It doesn't exist.
Crazy to think this series was a fighting game for one entry and then the devs went "nah this shit sucks, let's just do something completely different."
I'm gonna give this game a 2/5 because I don't know anything about old semi-3D fighting games like Soul Calibur and Virtual Fighters but this game just isn't for me and I can't rate it professionally.
Though it seems that most people think this game is dogshit and I'll believe them.
Though it seems that most people think this game is dogshit and I'll believe them.
Plays through arcade mode on the easiest difficulty mainly just spamming Zhou Yu's jump slash attack
Yeah, my spacing game is kinda cracked. Thinking of taking my skills to EVO next year.
Yeah, my spacing game is kinda cracked. Thinking of taking my skills to EVO next year.
Awful 3D fighter that probably felt dated the day it came out.
The idea of a weapon fighter was good, but the controls are too stiff.
Good thing the Warriors franchise went in another direction.
The idea of a weapon fighter was good, but the controls are too stiff.
Good thing the Warriors franchise went in another direction.
First Dynasty Warriors to stream! I hope to get to the rest in due course, but for the moment, this is the first one to try out and it's very different from the rest.
Unlike the big fighting fun of taking on hundreds of soldiers at once, we instead go for the one-on-one fighter which has the added difference of having weapons and the characters being based on the five-kingdoms much like they are in later games.
Beyond that, there wasn't much else that was pulling me to this game. It was certainly fun, but it did suffer from controls being a bit odd, though the hilarious cut-scenes after each character wins more than make up for it!
Especially the one I got where this woman seduces the lord and then runs around with flowers and such sprouting everywhere.
It's a bit of a weird one, but I much prefer the more recognisable type of Dynasty Warriors games out there.
Gameplay + Stream
Unlike the big fighting fun of taking on hundreds of soldiers at once, we instead go for the one-on-one fighter which has the added difference of having weapons and the characters being based on the five-kingdoms much like they are in later games.
Beyond that, there wasn't much else that was pulling me to this game. It was certainly fun, but it did suffer from controls being a bit odd, though the hilarious cut-scenes after each character wins more than make up for it!
Especially the one I got where this woman seduces the lord and then runs around with flowers and such sprouting everywhere.
It's a bit of a weird one, but I much prefer the more recognisable type of Dynasty Warriors games out there.
Gameplay + Stream
An odd first entry to the series. Fun enough, but very odd controls.
Wow this feels like dick! Notable only so nerds can say "wow every single DW game is exactly the same" and other nerds (me) can say "no did you know the first one was a 1v1 fighter!"