This game isn't like the trash that was WO4 or Warriors All-Stars or some of the other more recent games.I hated All-Stars. Haven't gotten WO4 yet, should I skip it? I have 1-3 and liked them.
It's combat is actually engaging.
I can't believe how much I'm enjoying this game, given modern trends of the Musou series.
I'm about 35 hours in and just beat Nobunaga's path. I'm about to do Mitsuhide's, and then there's also a hypothetical path I'll need to do as well.
Yep. Huge musou fan and I consider DW3 and SW2 to be the pinnacle of the series.
TC, did you play the prior SW games? I've always preferred them to DW series. Just curious if it's "surprisingly fun" b/c of stuff that's been part of the SW franchise all along, or for actual changes.
As a huge fan of the prior SW games, I've been pretty hesitant about SW5. I liked SW already, though the latest games have changed for the worse (more like DW).
Also, they cut Nene, and that's inexcusable!
I hated All-Stars. Haven't gotten WO4 yet, should I skip it? I have 1-3 and liked them.
Huge musou fan and I consider DW3 and SW2 to be the pinnacle of the series
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I actually haven't played that many games this year, but I echo your sentiment 9n Hitman 3 :)
The Hitman reboots are absolutely incredible and it's astonishing just how good they are. Still gotta play the DLC for 3
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PW4 is pretty good too. It's my favorite PW game tbh
I actually haven't played that many games this year, but I echo your sentiment 9n Hitman 3 :)
The Hitman reboots are absolutely incredible and it's astonishing just how good they are. Still gotta play the DLC for 3
TC, did you play the prior SW games? I've always preferred them to DW series. Just curious if it's "surprisingly fun" b/c of stuff that's been part of the SW franchise all along, or for actual changes.
As a huge fan of the prior SW games, I've been pretty hesitant about SW5. I liked SW already, though the latest games have changed for the worse (more like DW).
Also, they cut Nene, and that's inexcusable!
I hated All-Stars. Haven't gotten WO4 yet, should I skip it? I have 1-3 and liked them.
Jim Sterling is a schlubthis is true, ok?
I played the demo and was expecting to have alittle bit of mindless fun slashing through enemies for like 10 min. or so but I was surprised when I nearly died on normal mode, i wasn't really trying too hard but even the generic enemy captains were getting good hits on me.Yep haha
Steams says 15.5 hours for me. Mostly finished Nobunaga's story, just some gaiden stages remaining. Mitsuhide I am in chapter 4. Hopefully it will answer some questions, Nobunaga story really does not build up the break between the two, it just suddenly goes to Honnojii.I sort of thought the same. I'm on Chapter 4 of Mitsuhide's story and seeing his perspective of things does help a little bit.
Overall I like the gameplay and story, aside from some questionable choices.
I played the demo and was expecting to have alittle bit of mindless fun slashing through enemies for like 10 min. or so but I was surprised when I nearly died on normal mode, i wasn't really trying too hard but even the generic enemy captains were getting good hits on me.
Krow_Incarnate posted... Yep. Huge musou fan and I consider DW3 and SW2 to be the pinnacle of the series.SW 2 is my fave musou game of all time, so cool. Not a fan of DW overall, but DW4 is my favorite, then DW3.
The enemies don't just stand there and the artificial difficulty has taken a bit of a back seat. It's still there to an extent, but OHKOs being the only genuine threat are a thing of the past. In fact, there's hardly any OHKOs in the game unless your character is severely underleveled in regards to the difficulty you're playing on, much like in past games. Enemies are more aggressive and are constant threats to your health again.I don't think they were ever "easy", there were plenty of higher difficulty battles where you could get 2-hit, 3-hit, or 4-hit. And when characters can attack that quickly w/o a stamina bar like Souls games, you can absolutely get WTF combo'd to death suddenly on the hard difficulties.
Heck, I was actually pretty down on the game until release because I couldn't for the life of me figure out what Koei's marketing strategy was. Cut characters, low amount of movesets(and I'm more lenient on clones than most fans), redesigns(which I've grown to like).... But hey, NEW ARTSTYLE!!!I dislike the new artstyle, looks a lot more generic and same-y, and if they wanted more realism they failed on that front, too. Like, Mitsuhide was bald, not a pretty boy w/ long flowing hair.
As for Warriors Orochi 4, it's basically WAS with the DW and SW cast. And the Ultimate upgrade was a complete ripoff. Considering what Ultimate did for the previous game, what we got this time around is a joke.Ok, I'd like more elaboration on this. I hated WAS b/c it was super dumbed down musou combat and really poorly balanced. I love the Deception characters, but it's literally pointless to play a trap setup type style when the reward for pulling it off is being as good as the other characters.
Jim Sterling is a schlubYeah. I like a lot of his stuff especially w/ corporations and microtransactions. But some stuff really pisses me off. One is his unfair treatment of the SW series. I've NEVER seen him actually make a video review of a SW game, only DW games. He only ever brings up SW to slander both DW and SW as a group and often in the process proves he knows abso fucking lutely nothing about the SW series (such as "DW and SW have always been plagued with clone characters" -- uh, Jim, Samurai Warriors, has NEVER had clones, you fucking hack!)
I like it. The one thing Im not big on it blocking. Especially since its hard to do in the middle of a combo. In HW and AoC, you had B to dodge. And it easily canceled other stuff. They say Youngman use Bto evade. But it usually seems to jump instead. And it doesnt make you run crazy fast after use. Other than that, I like itIn the first few SW games, they had an evade button (DW didn't, may have adopted it later). SW2 even introduced dodge canceling and jump canceling for the series (limited to certain characters b/c they all had unique skill trees, another thing that made early SW games way better than DW).
Either SW 3 or 4 replaced it w/ a "spirit gauge". When full, you can go into Rage Mode and become stupid overpowered and invincible for a bit, but you can also spend part of the charge to dodge out of being combo'd, so I guess that was their dodge replacement. Does SW5 still have that?
I've only played the demo but the problem I have with it is that it's a not an English dub so when I'm playing, I'm concentrating on murdering mooks, not reading what they're saying so I feel like I'm missing out on things during battles like mission objectives or story. It's a problem I've had with the more recent SW games like 4-2 and SoS. Even as crappy as DW9's dub was, it was still a dub so I didn't mind it.
I wish I could switch between characters like is HW/FEW/AoC, but its ok, I guessHeh, they added that to SW4, guess they took that back out.
Heh, they added that to SW4, guess they took that back out.
On the plus side; including that meant removing each character having individual story modes and instead having factional ones like DW, which sucked. I much prefer having each character have their own story where maybe a battle is presented a bit differently, and possibly include battles where other playable characters weren't present.
Downside is that then you don't necessarily have anyone to switch to, so they can't use that feature.
As long as you can still call your horse, it's not bad.
Oh. If every battle gives you a partner character then yeah, that's odd they removed it.
I assume there will be some battles where you're alone, so they just removed it entirely...
If not, then that's a really odd and unfortunate choice.
Because yeah, that was the whole point. Send B to the next place you want to go, switch to B, send A to the next objective, switch to A, etc... Basically no running around the map.
AFAIK, after the first couple of battles, you start getting a partner every stage
I wish I could switch between characters like is HW/FEW/AoC, but its ok, I guessYou can for the most part. There's only a handful of stages where you can't. Most of the stages have you pick a partner.
You can for the most part. There's only a handful of stages where you can't. Most of the stages have you pick a partner.
How do you switch to the partner, though? The only thing Ive been able to do is tell them where to go. How do I take control of them?