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BCE and CE

Just beat the game (Sun Clan path).

This is, for me. The BEST Dynasty Warriors game ever made.

Been playing this series since Dynasty Warriors 4 (2003).

I understand many fans prefer being able to just play as a bunch of different characters, but that's never personally something I did, I either had my one or two favourite characters or I made use of a custom character when there was one.
So having the roster shrunk down to just a single original character was not a problem for me at all and ive been able to love the benefits that comes from this like feeling as if you are in the world and actually playing through the story as opposed to, oh now your Cao Cao and now your Sun Ce etc etc, this just feels a lot more personal and intimate.

I give this game a 9/10, im not sure if it enters into my Top 10 but ill have to review that list.

Complaints:

Ally AI is GARBAGE, you need to carry them to be able to win, this makes it awkward when after a battle the NPCS are praising someone for doing great in that last battle when in reality, if you weren't there they would have been wiped after 3 minutes, the devs shouldn't be afraid to set it up to where in some battles even if you went afk your team could still pull through (especially in battles where you are overwhelmingly more powerful than the foe and there's no realistic chance of failure)

Duels appear to be a little unbalanced in favour of the AI, an enemy attack is worth 3-4x the health bar of your attack even if you are stronger than the opponent.

3 Outfits... why give us the option? just give us the default look, seems like a waste of a feature if you weren't doing anything with it.



UPDATE:

Genuine Criticism - Shu True Ending (No Spoilrers)

The action required to attain the true shu ending has..

1. No effect on the end of the mission (the person of interest remains alive)
2. Cao Cao's army remains the same strength in the battle of Chibi
3. No effect on the very final mission (Person of interest still remains alive)

So, what was the point? Wei and Wu's true endings made sense, they created distinguishable differences that lead to alternative or better outcomes.

This one in particular was pointless and had no impact besides an extra cut scene.

Was each routes created by different members of staff? maybe Shu got the lazy employee?

The game is fun but there's so much weirdness that kills the vibe.

Like with crashing, we all know modern games are poorly optimised, its not a big deal anymore, but the strangest thing in this game is the reconnect button after a crash, they give you the option to reconnect, and once you've rejoined the match they straight up lie to you that you've been disconnected... you can hear all the sounds and see people fighting but the game swears to you you've disconnected and wont allow you to just close the pop up and continue, you HAVE to click leave.

This makes there own reconnect function null and void because its not going to let you rejoin.

First Thoughts...

Background music as we all know is a great one up over FM, but its only like 3 songs which was the issue with SM22.

Players scoring from offside positions in the simulations.

Gold bar cost to bid on a player is silly.

And where are the achievements? (I will change to positive if they are added)

Also forgot to mention the ugly white box where the club name is on the badge for create a club.

Start with the cons:

I certainly didn't miss this game-play loop, Game starts off great with loads of detail and engaging storytelling, then you get to the part where the voice acting disappears and now you're reading hours and hours worth of exposition, and fighting in dungeons that can go on for upwards of 10 whole hours.

These Graphics are outdated, it isn't an "art style" its a lack of innovation, Honkai Star Rail is a year old now, its a free 'Mobile' Game and its nothing short of Stunning. it isn't wrong to nudge the development team into thinking about graphical improvements for future games.


Pros:

Game has a great set up with an enticing opening sequence, you are not eased into the story, you are thrown into it head first with your crew quite confidently planning on achieving what I assume to be your end goal is in the first hour of the game, very bold.

The voice acting has been great so far, I did go for English voices in the end as immersion is key so naturally British Accents are the go to for that but.... the MC has an American Accent? so yeah that's a thing maybe there's a reason for it who knows.

I like the voiced protagonist, Atlus looks like they might be stepping away from self insert characters but I have been given some sarcastic options so far which is nice.

the first few hours of combat was very fun and satisfying, if you are playing the game casually you could have a lot of enjoyment with the dungeons.


In Conclusion: This game doesn't have the comedic brilliance of a Persona 4, It doesn't have the stunning visuals of a Persona 3 (Reload), It may actually be on par with the movement of Persona 5 though.

But what it is, is something new, something unique and something that NEEDS to be successful if the industry of gaming is ever going to innovate away from the souls like copy and paste games that keep being churned out.

Lets be real. once you saw "Amazon" you know this game was cooked, After everything that happened with Blue Protocol i'm surprised Amazon decided to even release this instead of sitting on it for 2 years and waiting for the game to die,

As you'd expect, Janky Game-play, Music Audio drowning out the dialogue, character creator bugs, its a standard modern video game release where nothing is refined or tested, or if it was tested, the feedback wasn't read.
It has my 'favourite' modern RPG troupe where they have you select the dialogue for your character, desperately trying to
make it look like they fulfil the "RPG" part of an MMORPG yet just like many other modern 'RPGs' they don't give you more than one dialogue choice, which makes the dialogue selector completely redundant and a waste of time, which is a shame as the Character Creator (Despite having some bugs [If you want specifics certain alterations you make in the character creator wont show in the character creator screen but actually shows up when you start the game, meaning you now have to delete the character and remake it) is actually fairly in depth allowing you to make Asian Characters which is a rarity.

Ill give it a day or two and we will see if it has a somewhat interesting story or maybe they did have one and Amazon cut it out and changed it because it wasn't PG enough for the apparent small and fragile american minds (not my words, this is just how your corpos cater to you).

They've done a dodgy i'm afraid, Legacy Gems are a scam, Skins all cost 3k Gems + Diamonds (need both currency's to buy).

Also got a 20 minute ban because someone on the other team didn't lock in a character, love it.

Pay 2 Play Paladins

Dogma BALLS

6.5/10

Pros:
Cool Concept
Nice Design
Character Customisation
Fun

Cons:
Quite Short
Armour Is Just Reskins
Game Cant Make Up Its Mind Whether The Combat Is Player Based, Pal Based Or Mixed
Arc Survival Styled Technology and Skills system personally for me is a no.
No Real Story

If this game was a standard £50-£70 Game I would give it a thumbs down, But its Humble price tag does place this game in an overall positive score for me, Maybe if you like Pokemon you'll love it.