Three wasn't my first musou, so it will never have the same weight to me as it does for a lot of other people in the fan base. I respect it a lot for what it did, as another reviewer here noted, this built the house that is modern Koei. The foundation for every successive game in this franchise in genre is right here. And it is pretty fun, at times. There's just the right balance of aggression and pressure to make matches interesting, but maps are just way too big, and way too copy pasted among characters that aren't differentiated enough in this entry to maintain interest after you've done a couple of musou mode runs. The foundation here though, is so good