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The entire Dynasty Warriors series and most of its spin offs like Samurai Warriors, Warriors Orochi, and the one where you play alongside a bunch of anime characters or whatever. They've never been good. All the games made with other IPs like Hyrule Warriors are significantly better. Even stuff like Kessen was better. I've stilled played all of them because they got me interested in Chinese history, media, and culture from a young age which influenced my entire life direction through uni and after. The soundtracks rock.
I have DW 4 Hyper on my pc I jump into from time to time for some mindless fun in the three kingdoms. I wonder how to describe the soundtrack, session rock? They just have one guy on an electric guitar just killing it.
Thrash metal with Chinese characteristics
Hyrule Warriors was my gateway drug now I’m obsessed with this series. I do love seeing Chinese culture being represented too since when the US gets anything Asian it’s almost always Japanese in terms of games.
It kinda feels like they use the DW games as a testing ground for whatever new engine or graphics tech they're working on, then when they have to work with someone else's IP, they're held to a higher quality standard and really bring things together. The Berserk game is pretty good, Hyrule Warriors is pretty good (though better on an emulator due to FPS issues), and so is the Fire Emblem one. I think Origins is getting closer to what the games were meant to be from the start when it comes to difficulty and enemy density making it feel like you're actually wading through armies. I'll never get tired of the series and I do hope they live up to the potential I think they've always had.
The Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors "Empires" games were always a fun spin on the old Nobunaga's Ambition grand strategy formula, albeit extremely surface-level