One of the best single player musou games of all times as for me. (Yes, there's no P2)
Yet again You take on a historical period of Yellow Turban Rebellion and Three Kingdoms, however, this time You play as Guardian of Peace instead of selected/forced on Officer. The game starts on Yellow Turbans and ends on the battle of red cliffs (Chi Bi), so there's no so much content of "three kingdoms" itself.
Instead of having tons of weapons with more or less similar mechanics, You get more refined handful of weapons to play with, each more unique. Instead of rock-paper-scissors weapon system like in DW8, enemy officers have guard shields that You need to break in order to stop them from using Musou or gain chance to deal extra damage.
Pros:
+ A lot of fresh air
+ Weapons are more refined
+ Ultimate Warrior difficulty
+ Remix of Eve as opening was a banger
+ I feel like a kid playing DW4 again
+ Partner "System", where in most battles one of officers follow You and fight alongside
+ Fate Alters (Lore)
+ Guardians of Peace are really cool concept
+ Audio, Visuals, Lu Bu is scary again
+ Uber Zhang Jiao phantom?, Yuanhua addition to story
Cons:
- "Short" story (3 paths Wu, Shu, Wei, fate alters don't give much of extra content)
- Gauntlets weapon
- For some players: "black rain glitch" on screen
- Dialogue options don't really matter
- Ziluan poor wardrobe
- Unused potential of the game (there's DLC now tho mixed reviews)
- Training quests are good to learn other weapons, but I hate'em
- Enemy with maximum, unbreakable morale can spam musou
- Fate alters (can't compare to hypotheticals from previous installments)
No regrets, this game is easly top position in musou genre, shame there's no option to play it with someone. Worth it price.
