Typical from the Dynasty/Samurai series. Nothing different from its typical repetitive but addictive gameplay and combat
- Typical Dynasty and samurai warriors game. The story wasn't even worth listening to, very boring and just typical "family wu this, family xu that". Pretty repeptitive combat that never really changes. Tons of different players to use out of every realm. I found the interface and menus very annoying because I would find a new weapon and it would never show up for me to use.
Environment & Immersion: 7.5/10
- Other than setting or scenery, the maps were all very similar but still worked well with the game. Game was pretty addicting, even with the very repepititve combat and gameplay. Bosses all seemed way to easy, even on some of the harder settings. Game isn't even worth playing on the easy mode, more than 75% of the enemies don't even attack you.
Graphics/Physics: 7.5/10
- Graphics were pretty decent but theres so much better out there. Nothing to even really talk about graphics and physics wise, they were all good but nothing special.
Sound: 5/10
- Most of the voices were plain pathetic and even if the stories are read to you, they are still not interesting. Gameplay sound was alright.
Bugs, Stability & Performance: 7/10
- No performance or bugs I could find. However I did find that even after finding or gaining new weapons, they never showed up as available to use, this was VERY annoying.
Replay value: 8/10
- Being story is so weak but combat was so addictive. I could come back and play this quite a lot in the future back and forth.
Value/Originality: 7/10
- Stays very true and simular to the other games in its series. Game isn't all worth too much, nothing special at all came from this game and really seemed typical in my book. It seeems that most of the Dynasty and Samurai games I've played all seem to be the same.
Will this game be remembered by old school gamers as a classic after 10 years?:
- Remembered? Yes but only as a series. Held on a pedistal? Definately not.
Who would I recommend to buy the game?:
- Dynasty and Samurai Warriors fans and any gamer who loves hack-and-slash games.
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Overall: 7 - Typical from the Dynasty/Samurai series. Nothing different from its typical repetitive but addictive gameplay and combat. Their games really do need something new other than small graphics differences every release. One major plus is that this game was released for the PC which is unusual for this series.