2/May
2008

Warriors Orochi Games

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I think that on most occasions the term “button-mashing” has generated a very negative stigma. When gamers hear the term associated with a particular title, they become wary of said title and mentally classify it under a very distinct and repetitive experience. But for some gamers, button-mashing isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and that’s very clear when looking at the fan following of Koei’s various Warriors franchises, which are almost universally labeled as button-mashers. Some people just enjoy that kind of experience and that’s what you’re going to get when you play Warriors Orochi on the PC.

Unfortunately, a massive culmination of times, places and heroes doesn’t come together for Warriors Orochi because the Warriors games have never truly nailed down a solid story or ritzy presentation. But before we delve too deeply into that, let’s cover the basics. Warriors Orochi lets you command a team of three characters from an impressively huge roster and work through a series of campaigns organized by kingdom. Most of your time, like other Warriors titles, will be spent hacking your way through hundreds of enemies, taking out occasional officers and accomplishing minor objectives during a mission.

Although you can obviously map different commands to your keyboard, I found this style of action game to be somewhat unintuitive for keyboard support (you apparently can’t map anything to your mouse). Although plugging in a gamepad is preferable, the keyboard still works — just not as well. Combat is all about using a sequence of Normal attacks followed by a Charge attack to end the combo. As usual, any character has a Musou attack that can clear a large number of enemies and deal some heavy damage to opposing officers. You also have the option to fight on horseback as well as a few techniques that can be executed mid-jump.

The catch with Warriors Orochi is the tag-team dynamic, which lets you customize a team with characters belonging to the Power, Speed or Technique categories and swap between them at any time. As I’ve mentioned in my reviews of the other platform versions, it’s always disappointing to not see a team attack built into the combat mechanics, but chaining together Musou attacks is a step in the right direction.

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This version of Warriors Orochi seems to be almost identical to the 360 version, but PC owners should note that there are no widescreen resolutions available when playing — the image is stretched and the resolution doesn’t even go terribly high. The game once again sports pop-in, embarrassingly bland textures and empty environments. Although it runs just fine during actual combat, the whole experience feels barren, especially on the PC, which can do so much more than what’s happening here.

The story and voice acting in Warriors Orochi are sincerely lacking also, but the real issue here is whether or not you appreciate the aforementioned button-mashing. If you enjoy pounding away on the same buttons for hours with virtually no thought needed, than this game delivers just that. Warriors Orochi offers plenty of content for the button-mashing enthusiast and once again delivers insane potential for character leveling (try maxing out over seventy warriors). These titles can be fun in small doses and will certainly please gamers who like straight-forward gameplay, but I greatly prefer combat systems with more depth and the promise of challenging combos.

Lastly, I should mention that playing co-op locally with another player on the same PC is very unusual. Unless you have an extra gamepad lying around, chances are you won’t huddle together at one keyboard and pound away on buttons together — unless you’re very close…

If you love names as Guan Yu, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, or Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomy Hideyoshi, then you’ll enjoy this title. With 79 major characters from either romance of 3 kingdoms or sengoku period, this game provides its perspective to answer following question: who is the most powerful one among all those lengendary warriors. Critics tend to give this title mangy ratings, and I perfectly understand their reasons : outdated graphics, repetitive gameply, unknown characters, simple plots, , etc, etc,. However as I said above, if you love those names, this game is definetly worth playing, and it will probably suck you in. The feeling of the characters are quite authentic, loyal to historical descriptions. The gameplay is simple but fun. Yes Beat-’em-up games can sometimes degenerate into brain-dead button pushing, but this game is definetly not the case. At the highest difficulty, skill and strategy can’t be ignored. After all, the game play of the famouse Diablo is also no other than button-pushing or mouse clicking.

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