Dynasty Warriors Origins Releasing 1/17/25

[kjb]

Koei is rebooting the Dynasty Warriors series. The last game they released Dynasty Warriors 9 was a failure in many people's eyes. Bland empty open world very buggy when released too many clones, they changed the combat, took away weapons from some characters and made them DLC etc... I love DW9 myself in spite of it's many flaws so when I first heard about Origins I was a little shocked that you couldn't as any of the normal characters except for a short time. You could only play as some nameless wanderer. Then they removed a lot of fan favorites and you have 9 weapons to choose from. But after seeing some trailers I am starting to get hyped about it. I have been a Dynasty Warriors fan since rented DW2 way back when. It looks like the finally be able to get a large number of soldiers on screen like they promised way back when and combat looks really good. They have a demo coming out on 11/22 and I plan on downloading it
Here's the latest trailer

 

[ImaRobot]

DW has always been a guilty pleasure but every iteration is largely the same for the most part aside from recently. It's always been a fun couch-coop game though, but with this focusing on one sole character, I wonder if they'll remove that?

 

[kjb]

DW has always been a guilty pleasure but every iteration is largely the same for the most part aside from recently. It's always been a fun couch-coop game though, but with this focusing on one sole character, I wonder if they'll remove that?

That is a good question. But you're couch coop has been one of my favorite parts of Dynasty Warriors. First it was me & my older brother then with my niece & nephews now with my children.

 

[ImaRobot]

That is a good question. But you're couch coop has been one of my favorite parts of Dynasty Warriors. First it was me & my older brother then with my niece & nephews now with my children.

Same here, was me and my brothers when we were young. Now I throw it on every once in a while when friends come over to cook/drink. Hopeful for this one at least, lets see how it goes.

 

[kjb]

That would be ashamed if they removed that because the combat in this game looks really good.

 

[kjb]

I downloaded the demo last night and while I enjoyed it it was the clean slate they promised. They carried over some of the elements from DW9 light the lock on and the battle arts are similar to the trigger attacks. The rage mode is cool and I like being able to switch temporarily to one the DW generals.
The morale system seems better. My only issue is Yuan Shao kept dying even though I was close by. A couple of times I actually saw him die when I was right by his side. I think once I get a little bit better at combat that might not happen. You command your troop to fire a volley of arrows, charge your enemy or encircle the enemy.
So far there 4 out of 9 weapons available. I have only tried the general sword. Gonna go back the other weapons.
I am enjoying the new game and I will probably buy this just not at launch. I think I will wait until after the 1st set of patches
Edit: I forgot to mention the duels are back! I actually like this setup for the duels better than what was in DW4

 

[kjb]

I played the demo again and I figured that I would stay by Yuan Shao's side to prevent him from dying and try to keep the morale up. I was able to finish the battle then LuBu showed up he was very difficult and I did not beat him I will try again soon. I am definitely buying this it may be day one but I will definitely get one. Hopefully it has couch co-op