Samurai Warrior 5 Review - A meal at the same time Familiar and Fresh

Samurai Warriors 5 Criticism

For me, the Musou Games belong to a very special kind: awesome from time to time (as part of a balanced diet, as it was said about breakfast cereals), but likely to become repetitive if it is too much often consumed. There is a fantasy of power like no other inherent in deciding and cutting off hundreds of enemies, and Samurai Warriors 5 is perfectly right, with a story more than decent to start.

Although compared to the previous inputs of the Dynasty Warriors 5 series reduces its reach to a relatively brief period of Japanese history and reduces the number of characters playable to a reasonable number (or maybe just a little less ridiculous), c 'Is always the business of more than the best sword game, crazy weapons and battles that start as epic and are only gaining momentum from there.

You start history as samurai Nobunaga Oda, and from the third chapter, your playable list of heroes begins to expand and explore the campaign from the point of view of Mitsuhide Akechi too. The two characters come back from previous Warrior games, but the newcomers in the series will have more ease to follow history. The history of Japan may seem opaque, but Samurai Warrior 5 does a good job to analyze this chapter and direct the players and give them life.

While the fight is what makes muskey games such a specific kind, the stories and the context are really important to link the action to something that is similar to reality. Combining a saga of ambition and family conflict in the context of the japanese history fighters' period, Samurai Warriors 5 tells her story through beautiful paintings, memorable and clearly designed characters and well-written dialogues. This is one of the few action games where you do not feel obliged to move to the next mission sequence, but where you savor the chance to see how the melodrame is a little ironic.

Fortunately, the game avoids an open world design in favor of a linear series of missions, which can all be repeated for higher scores and more booty. Diverting from - or, more precisely, completing - the campaign is the Citadel mode, which allows the player and an IA or a cooperative partner to seek resources in massive battles. What the game may not emphasize enough is that the missions of the citadel are essential for extending the structures of the origin base, which are of course necessary for certain upgrades.

Speaking of cooperation, a large part of Samurai Warriors 5 can be played in cooperation on a shared screen sofa, which works very much later in the game when additional characters have been unlocked.

The fight is the main course of the meal, and Samurai Warriors 5 serves it with style and especially, with ease of control, with the possibility of passing regular attacks to the new ultimate attacks as easily as a virtuoso tickles the ivoires. The ultimate attacks must be loaded in combat and you need to know when and how to use them, especially against mini-bosses or bosses.

The battles are multiple goal sets often on tentacular maps of hundreds of low-level soldiers, commanders and senior patterns, as well as special units that need to be approached less conventionally, either using Ultimate or sneaky tactics like attacking from behind. Like the previous games, the game card sometimes makes a fairly mediocre job to clearly delimit where the key enemies are and it is inevitable that at some point in each battle, you are confronted with cannon flesh in perpetual generation Because you have failed to eliminate an individual. commander.

Samurai Warriors 5 has an attractive artistic style, colorful and particularly effective in the heat of action, when dancing with weapons effects and the graceful animations of the characters. The game also has a truly varied musical partition, accentuated with traditional Japanese instruments and motifs in the history and driving sequences of electric guitars in battles. Overall, the aesthetics is stellar and the transition from static art in the sections of history to the game works perfectly.

A regular muskey game diet would certainly lead to nutritional deficiencies, but play from time to time to a game like Samurai Warriors 5 recalls how fun it can be. There is almost always at least a hint of repetition in these games, including this one, but with its balance between a well-told story and a fluid action, memorable characters and epic battles, Samurai Warriors 5 is at once An excellent way to dive into the franchise and a new direction welcome for long-standing fans.