Controls are responsive with movements, attacks, abilities and the powerful Musou moves all having quick and fluid inputs. Similar in vein to other entries in the series players will be spending their time hacking through enemies all while unleashing numerous powerful attacks and abilities. With so many playable characters though, does the title have enough to keep players engaged and offer an entertaining experience? Kind of. In the latest release, Warriors Orochi 4, players get to unleash destructive powers with over 170 playable characters from both the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series’, along with a few new characters as well. The Warriors series of video games provide players with the chance to step into the shoes of a powerful fighter and take on near endless amounts of enemies. It plays fine on the Switch, but gamers with a PS4 will want to buy it on that because frame-rate is higher, the computer spawns more and slightly more aggressive enemies.Who knew 170 playable characters was too many. This is a good action game, but other games do most aspects better and the story fails to measure up to Orochi 3. I played it until beating every mission and unlocking every character, but went back to playing Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate because that game felt like it had better staying power. If you haven't played the other games in the series you won't mind, but if you have you will regret the number of small things that are no longer there.

The addition of magic attacks alleviates this somewhat, but feels incomplete. All characters' musou attacks have been shortened and weakened, and the samurai lose the window of invincible action they got in previous games. Note that while you can customize your weapons with elements, you have to find the powerful 'gold' ones and weapon fusion is gone. The story is fair, but with such a large cast nobody really gets a chance to shine. The new characters are a decent addition but all play like Dynasty Warriors characters and so fail to measure up to the samurai. Unlike Dynasty Warriors, there is no weapon switching so if you don't like Daqiao's twin rods you won't even want to play as her. The samurai characters have their full hyper-attack which gives them a big advantage in mobility and power, especially as you start adding elements to your weapons.

It contains almost every Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors character. It contains almost every Dynasty Warriors and Samurai For people new to the Musou/Warriors series, this is a good installment to start with. For people new to the Musou/Warriors series, this is a good installment to start with.

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