![]() In addition, Omega Force has designed a number of original characters based on Eastern folklore, such as the Tron-like Ne Zha and the demonic Shuten-doji, who drinks and spits various liquids to deal damage. Even many of the “clone” characters from DW7 use downloadable content, Xtreme Legends weapons, or classic movesets to break up any monotony.Ĭharacters are not just split between Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors, but now include Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden, Ayane from Dead or Alive, Joan of Arc from Bladestorm, Nemea from Zill O’ll, and Achilles from Warriors of Troy. There are over 120 to choose from, most of which feature their own play style and weaponry. ![]() As is typical with the Orochi series, players control three warriors and swap them at whim, which helps change up the battlefield and survive tough encounters, an increasingly useful trait on the Hard and Chaos difficulties.įans will have a tough time picking their final three heroes, however, as Warriors Orochi 3 boasts the most playable characters of any Warriors game to date. As always, players go up against an army of opponents, complete objectives, and slaughter everything in the way. Buying and merging weapons requires gems, earned during battle.īattles consist of your expected hack-n’-slash madness, a formula that I still find enjoyable in its cathartic simplicity. Such attributes include special elemental damage, increased attack power against certain foes, increased probability of finding items in the field, and all manner of other helpful properties. Weapon fusion merges the special attributes of two armaments to create a more powerful one. Once the side mission has been completed, players are offered a “Redux” version of the story battle, in which they can meet new objectives and save the character’s life, thereby unlocking them as a playable character.īetween fights, players can wander around a hub world, throwing parties to increase the friendship levels between characters, talking to significantly bonded heroes to unlock missions, and chatting with a blacksmith to buy and fuse new weaponry. However, side missions offer an opportunity to fight a battle that took place before the character died, allowing you to alter future events. During main missions, players may witness the deaths of allied characters, and be unable to recruit them as playable heroes. Each chapter of the game contains various battles, some that move the main narrative along and others that feature side-stories. The plot informs the structure of the gameplay, which is a little less linear than usual. It’s not an award-winning narrative that will change lives, but the story is quite unique and fun this time around, which deserves a pat on the head. As characters are introduced with their own goals and plots, I’m pleased to say that Omega Force put some real effort into the writing, rather than simply having characters shout “Justice” and “Chaos” at each other for several hours (though there’s plenty of that, too). While it’s full of silly dialog and the usual stock characters, it’s interesting to note that Warriors Orochi 3 sincerely attempts to tell its own original, engaging story this time around. For reasons unexplained, she has the power to travel through time, and tasks the surviving warriors with the quest of reliving the past in order to rescue everybody who was killed. At the culmination of a climactic battle, they too are about to face oblivion, only to be rescued at the last minute by a brand-new character, the mystic Kaguya. The fractured timeline has begun to settle into a new world when suddenly a gigantic hydra appears out of nowhere and begins systematically killing everything.īy the time the game begins, there are only three generals left alive. Warriors Orochi 3 unravels in the years following the events of the previous games, in which characters from both Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors were forced into an anachronistic universe on the whim of a violent demon, Orochi. Warriors Orochi 3 (PlayStation Network, Xbox 360) The intellectual property of Tecmo and Koei’s history may not deserve the hack-n’-slash equivalent of Super Smash Bros., but I’m glad it exists. ![]() For fans of the company, however, forgiveness isn’t necessary. Regardless, Warriors Orochi 3 asks no forgiveness for the self-congratulatory way in which it shovels cameo appearances and fan service into the player’s face. ![]() Considering Nintendo’s pedigree as compared to Tecmo Koei’s, that statement can be seen as quite laughable, but nevertheless, Warriors Orochi 3 dabbles in the kind of crossover content usually reserved for the most prestigious companies in this industry. Warriors Orochi 3 is Tecmo Koei’s Super Smash Bros. ![]()
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