The guys at Koei seem intent on realising the same game in as many ways possible. Not satisfied with having Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors they decided to combine them into this package, the first in the Warriors Orochi series. It is basically the same hack and slash gameplay as the others Warriors games and if you are familiar with those games, it's more of the same. Of course this is extremely lazy, but it makes for an easy review. What has changed? Well there is one positive. In this game you get to fight as a team of 3 instead just 1. I do welcome this change. Rotating characters when they are low on health and using characters with different move sets for different battles adds a bit of tactics to the otherwise mash X game. The story is also a little bit more interesting but nothing special. I also found this game pretty hard compared to other warriors games, but maybe I just suck. Better than the standard warriors games but still nothing particularly special. Unless you love these, I wouldn't bother picking this up.

Please go and play this before the Indie game cycle starts. You know, the one where people go "Oh, this extremely popular highly praised indie game sucks actually" and then dog pile everyone who genuinely likes it for like 2-3 years, before eventually the same people turn heel and say "Oh no wait, it IS good" because now disliking the game is the norm, and there's no way they can like or dislike something without spiting someone else.

Seriously, its insane how this happens every single time. It happened with Minecraft, it happened with FNAF, it happened with Undertale, and I feel like there's a good chance that it'll happen here.

I really do hate to write about online fandom wars or whatever, but regardless of those games' quality, it absolutely ruined a lot of online discussion about them in my eyes. So go play this while it's still fun, it's absolutely worth it.

EDIT: Because I was dumb and forgot to mention it, obviously you're allowed to dislike the game. My main point was please just don't be a dick about it regardless of your opinion. I mainly wrote this whole thing because I'm fucking sick of basically all online discourse in general lol