

Much like the history it draws inspiration from, this title offers a whopping 80 generals to play as. It’s probably not the best idea to boss Lu Bu around, especially when you’re 1/3 his size.ĭynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition definitely lives up to its name as it is filled to the brim with content. “Dad, knock it off! You’re embarrassing me in front of my friends!” This makes the Dynasty Warrior series ripe for plenty of battles and stories to tell. Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors, and Dynasty Warriors Gundam), the core Dynasty Warriors games focus on ancient China – the Three Kingdoms era, to be exact – where civil war over control of the various territories was rampant. While the spinoffs focus their narratives on their respective franchises (i.e. Usually the mission consists of taking down one or more enemy generals, but there tend to be other objectives along the way to shake things up a bit.
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A massive beat-em-up where your heroes take on hundreds of grunts at once, mowing them down with relative ease while you make your way through large arena style battlegrounds to take down your targets. After spending some time with Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition on my Switch, I can understand why the long running series has such a following overseas.Įnemy grunts are but leaves in the wind against your generals and their might blades!ĭynasty Warriors, at its core, is a beat-em-up (or a “Musou” game for the initiated, as the games are called so overseas).
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I do, however, understand that the series has a very dedicated fan following in the west. Sure, my wife and I logged a ton of co-op hours into the Wii U version of Hyrule Warriors, but that’s about as deep as I’ve gotten into the series before now and that’s admittedly not very deep at all considering we sunk a lot of time into a spinoff title. I’ll admit, I’m not the hugest Dynasty Warriors fan on the planet.
