Oct 08 2007
Warriors Orochi
I think there’s something wrong with me. I kept telling myself that I wouldn’t buy another Dynasty Warriors game after the fourth one, especially once the series started settling into “Mega Man Mode” - release a sequel every year or so with only marginal changes. I skipped over DW5, played and forgot about Samurai Warriors, and then gave up on SW2 after just one round of struggling with an AI that blatantly cheats. (The Sugoroku mini-game just made me angry). Then Warriors Orochi, a crossover with both Dynasty and Samurai Warriors characters came out a few weeks ago.
I caved.
In reality, this game isn’t as bad. Koei actually made some updates to the graphics engine, so distant objects don’t seem to pop up out of nowhere anymore (well, background objects don’t…there are still only a handful of soldiers on screen at any given time). No more stupid “Kryptonite fog“. And I can actually fight fair without some dumbass enemy general severing my head in a matter of seconds. The bad news is that yes, it is still a DW game at heart, so if you’ve played one, you probably won’t find many surprises here. I find this one to be quite less objectionable than the other, though, and actually quite a bit of fun in some places, since it’s a non-historical crossover between the two universes.
