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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Rank Their Top 100 Respective Video Games part 3
Eddv 02/23/21 10:54:34 PM #210:	13.) Sengoku Basara 3 (PS3, 2010) PUT YA GUNS ON!! To me, when it comes to Dynasty Warriors-style games, the absolute most important thing is to have that killer sense of style. Dynasty Warriors has this in bits and pieces, but its too concerned with things like historical accuracy to produce a truly great Musuo game much of the time. Never you fear though, Capcom got involved, grabbed the unification of japan rather than the romance of the three kingdoms and produced a trio of absolutely ludicrous and fun musuo games detailing the three stages of japanese unification. Stage 3 - the struggle between Ieyatsu Tokugawa and the remainder of the forces who had been loyal to Toyotomi, led by Ishida Mitsunari and the various remainders of other factions. The gameplay is thus a mix between the conquest focused Empires musuo titles and the story-driven titles that make up the mainline of the other series and the results are great. The maps feel alive. This applies most especially to when you play either Ieyatsu or Mitsunari who are, after all, leading the two great factions. I love the stark visual contrast between the bright and golden and unarmed Ieyatsu counterbalanced with the pale and white and dismal Ishida armed with an especially long katana. It's fucking great stuff. It can be a little disheartening to play as some of the lesser factions and find yourself merely second fiddle to the main conflict but there are enough twists and turns to keep things entertaining. For example, the hilariously unlucky Kuroda Kanbei, who is the imprisoned leader of a faction that wishes to have independence for the Kyushu region or really any region at all, as he is an opportunist through and through. He winds up interrupting the climactic final battle to try and take back the key to his giant prison ball that he uses as a weapon so he can walk free. Even as he defeats literally EVERYONE, a hawk steals the key and forces him to live a life of eternally bad luck. These sorts of episodes play out all over the games cast and are all pretty damn fun. And of course, it wouldn't be a Basara game without some convoluted way for Nobunaga to get involved! All in all, this is the pinnacle. This is what a musuo can be and its difficult to go back to Dynasty Warriors after being exposed to THIS. To the point where when I jones for the genre, I don't buy a new DW - I just pop in Sengoku Basara 3 and play with a character I haven't played with in a while. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy <cite>Eddv posted [p:951005512] in The Board ... [t:79281225]...</cite> <quote>13.) Sengoku Basara 3 (PS3, 2010) PUT YA GUNS ON!! To me, when it comes to Dynasty Warriors-style games, the absolute most important thing is to have that killer sense of style. Dynasty Warriors has this in bits and pieces, but its too concerned with things like historical accuracy to produce a truly great Musuo game much of the time. Never you fear though, Capcom got involved, grabbed the unification of japan rather than the romance of the three kingdoms and produced a trio of absolutely ludicrous and fun musuo games detailing the three stages of japanese unification. Stage 3 - the struggle between Ieyatsu Tokugawa and the remainder of the forces who had been loyal to Toyotomi, led by Ishida Mitsunari and the various remainders of other factions. The gameplay is thus a mix between the conquest focused Empires musuo titles and the story-driven titles that make up the mainline of the other series and the results are great. The maps feel alive. This applies most especially to when you play either Ieyatsu or Mitsunari who are, after all, leading the two great factions. I love the stark visual contrast between the bright and golden and unarmed Ieyatsu counterbalanced with the pale and white and dismal Ishida armed with an especially long katana. It's fucking great stuff. It can be a little disheartening to play as some of the lesser factions and find yourself merely second fiddle to the main conflict but there are enough twists and turns to keep things entertaining. For example, the hilariously unlucky Kuroda Kanbei, who is the imprisoned leader of a faction that wishes to have independence for the Kyushu region or really any region at all, as he is an opportunist through and through. He winds up interrupting the climactic final battle to try and take back the key to his giant prison ball that he uses as a weapon so he can walk free. Even as he defeats literally EVERYONE, a hawk steals the key and forces him to live a life of eternally bad luck. These sorts of episodes play out all over the games cast and are all pretty damn fun. And of course, it wouldn't be a Basara game without some convoluted way for Nobunaga to get involved! All in all, this is the pinnacle. This is what a musuo can be and its difficult to go back to Dynasty Warriors after being exposed to THIS. To the point where when I jones for the genre, I don't buy a new DW - I just pop in Sengoku Basara 3 and play with a character I haven't played with in a while. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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