A standalone expansion of Dynasty Warriors 4
Dynasty Warriors 4: Xtreme Legends includes all 42 characters from the original Dynasty Warriors 4, with new gameplay elements. Engage in randomly generated skirmishes in Xtreme Mode. Live the exploits of all warriors in Legends Mode. Experience endurance-style duels in the Arena Challenge. Play it by itself or in conjunction with the original using Xtreme Legends' disc swap feature. Here's your chance to become a legend among legends.
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This game is never going to be the best musou ever made, but it sure is my favourite Dynasty Warriors game alongside 9.
There isn't really a lot to say here, honestly.
Gameplay is satisfying (even moreso with a mod to remove animation lock), striking a nice balance between DW3's difficulty and DW5's breeziness. Helps some of the weaker movesets flourish where, in the previous game, they'd flounder. Replacing weapon drops with a level system helps with power progression and then some.
Compounding the excellent gameplay is both an incredible amount of fun game modes AND a newer approach to the story, shuffleing everything into a per-Kingdom story and allowing you to play anyone within said Kingdom to experience it - even created characters, a first and sadly last for the series.
Maps are truly excellent. My only gripe with them is that, after the vividness of DW2 and 3, they're a bit dim palette-wise. Other than, though? The variety of approaches, variable objectives and just general layout are fantastic. This isn't a game with wasted fights, and I was sad when I realized I'd ran out of new maps to encounter.
Soundtrack is stellar, though not quite as fantastic as DW9's. Still, I hold a lot of fondness for the crusty guitar and grungy riffs. You know a game is something else when even the game over theme is great.
Really, my only gripes with DW4 are moreso a product of its time than anything. The low render distance gets annoying in bigger fights, the overabundance of loading screens between modes is irritating, autolock is HORRIBLE for more motion-heavy movesets, and the low draw distance means lots of offscreen arrow hits.
Still, DW4 is fantastic. It has aged like wine.
There isn't really a lot to say here, honestly.
Gameplay is satisfying (even moreso with a mod to remove animation lock), striking a nice balance between DW3's difficulty and DW5's breeziness. Helps some of the weaker movesets flourish where, in the previous game, they'd flounder. Replacing weapon drops with a level system helps with power progression and then some.
Compounding the excellent gameplay is both an incredible amount of fun game modes AND a newer approach to the story, shuffleing everything into a per-Kingdom story and allowing you to play anyone within said Kingdom to experience it - even created characters, a first and sadly last for the series.
Maps are truly excellent. My only gripe with them is that, after the vividness of DW2 and 3, they're a bit dim palette-wise. Other than, though? The variety of approaches, variable objectives and just general layout are fantastic. This isn't a game with wasted fights, and I was sad when I realized I'd ran out of new maps to encounter.
Soundtrack is stellar, though not quite as fantastic as DW9's. Still, I hold a lot of fondness for the crusty guitar and grungy riffs. You know a game is something else when even the game over theme is great.
Really, my only gripes with DW4 are moreso a product of its time than anything. The low render distance gets annoying in bigger fights, the overabundance of loading screens between modes is irritating, autolock is HORRIBLE for more motion-heavy movesets, and the low draw distance means lots of offscreen arrow hits.
Still, DW4 is fantastic. It has aged like wine.
i think Extreme Mode is a good fun time, i dig the rougelike idea. Legends Mode is just okay to me
it's so odd the original 4 is like goated with the sauce but like this game just kinda happens. like every character has a one story mission which is cool but like some are cool and some are very very not and like it takes a billion years for things to happen sometimes the pacing is mad not great like idk i just think the original handled everything better.
FUCK the 11* weapons
The only thing I remember from XL was getting the final weapons. Now even though getting them was hard af I would like KT to atleast bring back some of this difficulty.
Ma Chao and Zhang Liao.....
The only thing I remember from XL was getting the final weapons. Now even though getting them was hard af I would like KT to atleast bring back some of this difficulty.
Ma Chao and Zhang Liao.....
So the same deal with 3 Xtreme Legends is that this is also an "expansion pack" of sorts for the original Dynasty Warriors 4 and can technically be played standalone. As with all of them, I'll be rating these by their standalone value since if you have the original disc, this is literally just additive to the experience you already have.
The main additions here are two new modes being Legend mode and Xtreme mode. Legend mode lets you do one extra special mission for each character and lets you get some cool stuff from it. The missions are kinda disappointing sadly, they aren't that long either. Xtreme mode is where it picks up the slack a little. It's sort of like a survival mission based mode where you do mini missions that earn you gold for upgrades and specific rewards. I was honestly surprised by how diverse this mode was with the events that could happen including doing some side objectives here and there. You can only heal by meat buns that are extremely rare or buying them with gold and you can even buy unique officers to act as your bodyguard which is pretty cool. You can even have your own kingdom and this create specific events on their own too which gives this mode a fair bit of replay value as well.
Other additions include two new difficulties, level 11 weapons, some new items, a new challenge mode and that's pretty much it. No new musou modes either which means if you only have this disc, you can either play Legend or Xtreme mode really. No stories at all and no free mode either which really sucks if you were a kid that got this for christmas and ended up playing the xtreme mode for almost a hundred hours.
Honestly I still like this one just because Xtreme Mode is really fun but if you had to get this game by itself, it's severely lacking even for Xtreme Legends standards. These titles are only good if you got the original since it just gives more but don't play these standalone.
The main additions here are two new modes being Legend mode and Xtreme mode. Legend mode lets you do one extra special mission for each character and lets you get some cool stuff from it. The missions are kinda disappointing sadly, they aren't that long either. Xtreme mode is where it picks up the slack a little. It's sort of like a survival mission based mode where you do mini missions that earn you gold for upgrades and specific rewards. I was honestly surprised by how diverse this mode was with the events that could happen including doing some side objectives here and there. You can only heal by meat buns that are extremely rare or buying them with gold and you can even buy unique officers to act as your bodyguard which is pretty cool. You can even have your own kingdom and this create specific events on their own too which gives this mode a fair bit of replay value as well.
Other additions include two new difficulties, level 11 weapons, some new items, a new challenge mode and that's pretty much it. No new musou modes either which means if you only have this disc, you can either play Legend or Xtreme mode really. No stories at all and no free mode either which really sucks if you were a kid that got this for christmas and ended up playing the xtreme mode for almost a hundred hours.
Honestly I still like this one just because Xtreme Mode is really fun but if you had to get this game by itself, it's severely lacking even for Xtreme Legends standards. These titles are only good if you got the original since it just gives more but don't play these standalone.
Time for more Dynasty Warriors 4. My general thoughts about the gameplay as a whole is the same as the main game so I'll just jump to the extra content now.
Like the previous Xtreme Legends game, there's a lot of random new content. New difficult levels, new weapons etc. All basic stuff. The two new big additions are 'Xtreme Mode' and 'Legend Mode'.
Legend Mode is a... disappointment of a mode really. While the previous Xtreme Legends game gave a wide array of new story modes, this instead gives a level for every single character... Only its entirely based around that character, most of the levels are minute in size and most are pretty dull, feeling more like mini challenges instead of actual levels.
Xtreme Mode is much better and plays akin to a survival mode where you take on small battles while recruiting other officers to help you, taking on side-quests during battles for more loot and playing a tad more defensively than normal due to a much more reduced availability of healing items. It can get quite fun seeing how far you can go. You eventually can build a mini kingdom, have some character specific side quests. Its all very nice.
But its not enough and that's this expansions biggest problem. There just isn't enough here to warrant shelling out for it.
Like the previous Xtreme Legends game, there's a lot of random new content. New difficult levels, new weapons etc. All basic stuff. The two new big additions are 'Xtreme Mode' and 'Legend Mode'.
Legend Mode is a... disappointment of a mode really. While the previous Xtreme Legends game gave a wide array of new story modes, this instead gives a level for every single character... Only its entirely based around that character, most of the levels are minute in size and most are pretty dull, feeling more like mini challenges instead of actual levels.
Xtreme Mode is much better and plays akin to a survival mode where you take on small battles while recruiting other officers to help you, taking on side-quests during battles for more loot and playing a tad more defensively than normal due to a much more reduced availability of healing items. It can get quite fun seeing how far you can go. You eventually can build a mini kingdom, have some character specific side quests. Its all very nice.
But its not enough and that's this expansions biggest problem. There just isn't enough here to warrant shelling out for it.