Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Aug 10, 2022

  I would say this game was not a complete failure but there are some things that definetly made it bad. The open world is a good idea but its super bland and repetitive granted dynasty warriors has always been repetitive the battlefields are vastly different more diversity for the maps. Making certain characters weapons paid dlc bro what the fu##. The open world is barren not much to do or explore. I think the open world is a good start and should be improved on with historical landmarks, random encounters (challenging duels where the officer can beat your a## fairly easily better a.i), a base to build like a fort similar to the house idea but on a larger scale, i dont hate the open world and welcome it but it definetly needs heavy work done, creating a custom foot soldier as a paid dlc custom campaign id pay top dollar to do this for every kingdom, i prefer the move variations of the past. ill be honest i dont care about better graphics for dynasty warriors 10 i think the overall quality of the open world, and more variety of officers having thier unique weapons is the key. for christs sake give lu linqi her dw8 in the next game-_- and staple characters like zhang he yk the guy thats been around since the 3rd installment he keeps the claws-_-. I cannot reccommend this game in good faith with this all being said sorry koei tecmo but you pulled a bethesda/rockstar dic$ head move. Be better than that i take pride playing japanese made games because even though they have many weird fan service dlc of the female members(that i buy lol) they always deliver what they promise. ive been playing dw sw and wo since i was 8 years old when dw3 came out and bought every game i dont think you guys will fail again i believe in you and know it was just a fluke and an experiment that failed but it isnt the end keep at it and i know you will succeed just dont be scum like many american game devs are now.
• Animelife190

  Dec 11, 2022

  The game is so awful none of the controls make sense. The idea of an open world for this game headed way in the far direction. it was a waste of money and a shit purchase. Wish I would've got my refund but my hope for the game to get better stuck out. Everything about this game is a mistake. I don't recommend this game to anyone even to my worst enemies.
• JonAWJava233

  Jun 27, 2023

  Honestly.. is it the best entry in the series? Absolutely not. Is it better than Dynasty Warriors 6 was? Absolutely, it is. On a legitimate note, though, I'm actually really enjoying this game a lot more than I initially thought I would.
• PuddingZx

  Jul 3, 2023

  Perhaps I treated you too harshly.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 10, 2023

  After 120 hours on console, I'm back at it on PC. Don't really know what it is about this game that I love so much. I mean it's objectively a technical mess (especially on PC), yet here I am, playing it all over again. There's just something weirdly compelling about Dynasty Warriors, of all things, trying to do a Ubisoft-style open world. Anyway there's a free demo, so my review here shouldn't really mean much to you one way or the other. Try it for yourself. You might just find yourself enjoying it the way I do. (But let's be honest, statistically speaking, you probably won't. In which case, Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate Definitive Edition is probably what you're looking for. Go try that instead.)
• gamedeal user

  Feb 13, 2018

  Tl;Dr at bottom As of right now I would not recommend this game as a whole, as it is average if not painfully mediocre. This is coming from a fan who has enjoyed every single Dynasty Warriors game since Dynasty Warriors 3. This game aspires to be an interesting one, and by all means achieves it with SOME success, but some of the many components of which it is made up drag it down in an otherwise different game. I'll make this review simple and lay it down in simple pros and cons that long term fans and newcomers can understand. Forgive me if some things are rather specific, but everything I mention is worth considering. Pros: -The music is great -Graphics are above average -The interface does its job exceptionally -Large diversity of characters to play as, but requires you to unlock them as you play the game -Combat is mostly simple but has many components what can be used to enhance it, such as items, environment, and more -Crafting in the game is balanced enough, offering some specialization to suit your tastes, to a degree -Small distractions such as owning a house offer some distractions you can use to interact with other characters if you want -Different factors can decide battles, though it has varying results Cons: -99% of the battles are so boring, easily cheesed. Win a battle designed to be 10+ minutes by ignoring the purely optional objectives and running straight to the commander and beating it in 1 minute. -AI who follow you around more often than not sit and watch -Even during important battles, the AI will be too stupid to properly navigate, preventing them from joining in like they're obviously meant to do -Traveling the world is essentially a big chore until many hours later into the game -Some enemies will just straight up despawn in front of you, forever gone -Some of the text you need to read flies by during a second, screwing you over if you needed to read them -Game has issues with rendering, even in cutscenes some things will just not fully render, such as characters in the front of the action. -The voice acting is something that is more of a distraction than it is a treat to listen to, as almost all voices you will hear in the game are less than desirable to listen to, and you'll hear them often enough, which detracts from enjoying the downtime between combat as well as what are supposed to be meaningful scenes. -The lip synch in this game is just god awful, with the only passable parts being special cutscenes. This comes a distasteful annoyance, like the voice acting. -Some of the game's animations come off as being slower than they should be, which is distracting -Game has inherent performance issues during combat -Dialogue audio cuts out during combat a lot -Enemies clip through objects more than often enough, putting them in places they shouldn't be, and becomes painful during battles in castles Overall, I'd say 100% pass on this game UNTIL they patch some of the problems later down in the road (especially the AI and other oversights). As it stands, I'm being rather fair when I say this game will be worth buying, but only after they fix some of the problems with the game and fine-tune some things. It's not a great game, but it isn't trash, either. Tl:Dr I personally cannot recommend this game, but you do you. I'm just here to inform I feel it is painfully mediocre at best, and that is being somewhat kind.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 13, 2018

  Despite the title, this is an early access game. Feels like it, perfomance issue even on high end spec. Bugs and glitch here and there, tutorial messed up button display, etc. What about the new open world feel, you ask? It's a world of nothingness, waste of time, empty space greatness. Traveling from place to place really feels like a chore if you haven't unlock the nearest fast travel point. Imagine that you must travel on horse with nothing to do on the way to the destination for about 8 minutes, then just to kill bunch of pitiful soldiers that can be done for less than a minute. FUN!!!! What this game really is, it's a beta test for DW 10.... if this doesn't go well, they can just revert it into ordinary hack and slash again. Not our money thought, that they won't revert. PS: Playtime is not equal to game quality. If you see my playtime, divide it by 2, half of it was me traveling from point to point of quest, afk, and trying out all available graphic configuration to minimize the FPS issue.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 15, 2018

  I don't think I've ever written a review before, but kind of feel compelled to with this title. Brief history for me with the Musou series: Started with DW5, own it and DW6-9 now, SW2-4, Orochi Warriors1-2. I've loved the Warriors style of games for many years now, and I don't think I've seen a more polarizing entry in the series, or at least a more conflicting one. The Warriors/Musou style of games have always been about a small focus of things, but for me personally it's always been about that 1v1000s style of being a badass and smacking down peons left and right while making your way to the end of stage boss. That style of gameplay, while emulated well enough here, also has the formula of the game feel extremely disjointed and disruptive. The truth of the matter is this: Anyone that has ever played a Warriors/Musou style game will not recognize this game to be of that group. The combat is somehow more complex and simple than it's ever been with the Trigger combos and instant kill mechanic on enemy officers/captains, and the feeling of an empty world except when you finally make it to an area with enemies is vastly apparant considering the stages in Musou games in the past were always littered with peons to either slog through or ignore completely while running through them on a horse. With all of this being said, I still think the game can be enjoyable, but dear god the QA on the PC port was poor if not virtually non-existent. Constant 30FPS at best when you're riding around by yourself, and it dips below 10 when you hit crowded groups of enemies - which will happen constantly as that is the main point of this game after all. Also, the grappling hook mechanic was a nice idea, but it honestly should have been scrapped or made into an item whose scroll you unlocked through progression in the game. Being able to cheese sieges instantly with the item makes them a complete joke, and than you just run into the fort/castle/base center, beat the enemy officer, and you've captured it immediately. I'll keep a hold of the game because I can appreciate the experiment Koei-Tecmo did with this game and believe it can still be decent in its own way, but I no longer view this game as an entry in the Dynasty Warriors franchise even though I've played less than two hours of it. I'll be waiting for PC performance patches in the meantime though, because at the moment its nearly impossible to play.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 16, 2018

  "Fixed an issue that incorrectly allowed unsupported languages to be selected by performing a specific method." You gotta be kidding. Since the language is already in the game why the F would you patch to remove it?
• gamedeal user

  Feb 16, 2018

  First of all, I am somehow the lucky one, I have NOT encounted ANY of those known bugs AT ALL, and since I am running this game on an old 980TI/16GB Ram pc right now, I used the mid graphic setting and my FPS always bounce between 45-60, maybe drop a little when musou right into a crack load of enemy(which happens on all other DWs in the past anyway), So this allow me to view this game on a much peaceful level and not as a raging ranting gamer... Game is good, but just "good" and nothing more then that (by my rating, that is around 60/100), it's fairly fun and action packed (If you actively looking for action) on a fairly big open world map, It murders time like a boss, I am around 11 hours into the game and I haven't even finished Cao Cao's story yet, you always have something to do in the game, I'll break the "things to do" down to sections... [Story Quest] This is the main quest chain you need to do to complete the cheaptor, you usually have a GOAL and some Pre-Quest that lead to the completion of the goal, by follow the quest chain it will bring out the full capability of your force and reduce enemy resistance down to ground. [Minor Mission] Those are random missions giving by residents in the city or guards at outpost, those are often simply "go there and kill that" mission, it usually rewards golds, meds and assets. On completion, those minor quests also reduce enermy's level and make them easier to deal with. [Hunting Animals] Hunting rewards player with assets and "hinting point" assets are need for crafting, and hunting points will yall you rewards from NPC in tarven, and both are leading to end game gears. [Cheasing Bandits] There are bandits roaming in the wild, they are a great way to collect golds and old coins, even golds arn't play that big part in the game anymore, but you will still cheasing after those badits for those "old coins", since those coins are what you need for acquiring blueprints of end game gears. [Fishing] So far the best way to earn golds, you can easily get a hack load of top tier assets with fishing, this will be the way to pay for your meds and arrows. [Takeover Outposts or Forts] There will be a lots of outpost along the main road, you can jump in and attack them if they are in enemy hand, they usually rewards around 3 - 4 crates once you manage to takeover the control, and those crates are the main source of income and bit of bouns assets, and outpost under your control also act as fast travel nod. There are also Forts that you can attack, once you takeover a fort they will yall 1 - 3 crates, and there will also be item merchant and blacksmith in the fort as well. [Manage Your Hideout] Hideout act as an alt-able fast travel nod, you can alt the furniture to alt the hideout's function, and since NPC army will not attack hideout(unlike outpost), you can also use your hideout to fast travel deep into enemy land. And if you installed Couch, you will be able to invite officers to visit your hideout and build ralations. [Sightseeing] There are special spots that buckets you loads of XP, you will want to visit them for a bit of xp boost. [Crafting] Well... You will need to complete quest to collect the blueprints, or buy them with old coins, or earn them by hunting reward, and once you got the blueprint you can start pumping out meds, gems, cooking and weapons that will aid you in dealing with tougher enemys. That sounds great isn't it? Will I recommend this game to you guys? FK NO!! On top of those common bugs and proformance issue that people encounters (which I avoid with pure luck). This is the only game that DEVs make players download full language packs for the game, but bars access to Chinese language packs becaues they only want PS4 players to get access to extra language support, then when they learn steam users manage to alt their registration to access extra language packs, the DEVs released a PATCH to REMOVE the language pack from the game... Language doesn't troubles me, the way how the DEVs does thing is what annoy me enough to make me vote down on this game, If you don't want players to get access to something, then DON'T include it as part of the game package!! If you already did make players download those extra files, then just acknowledge your mistake and player's right to use those file, not lamely patch-remove it! Just how am I gonna trust a company that is heavely tiping on DLCs will not use this methods in the future to remove game feture and resale them as a DLC??