This rating hurts me because mechanically speaking Dynasty Warriors 3 is better than 2 in every way. Aerial recoveries, equipment, new combos, the beautiful voice acting, and enemy commanders using their gameshark codes in much greater moderation go a long way and make the game feel great to play, and the large increase in content is good too, but jesus christ at least on the campaign I picked the level design is just absolutely abysmal.
One level required me to run across its infuriating layout several times to kill a continuously respawning commander which probably made up 80% of its length for example, every level has an absurd amount of tower archers that are impossible to deal with because of how shitty the bow is and how specific the angle they need to be shot from is, and this last one might be a skill issue but I regularly just didn't have any soldiers to push through packed areas since major threats that need dealing with are always across the map forcing me to leave them to their deaths, so I just had to cheese those pushes in slow and boring ways. On top of this the difficulty seems to ramp up just as fast as usual, so I'm dealing with all this garbage on top of having to grind to keep up.
Everyone else seems to love this game so maybe I'm skill issued or maybe the other levels are better, but I just got ridiculously frustrated and couldn't bring myself to keep playing after a certain point.