Warlord: Awaji

時は建武の新政期、西方から捲土重来を図る朝敵足利尊氏に備えるべく、淡路島の反乱勢力を屈服あるいは殲滅し島を平定せよ 郎党を引き連れて淡路島を文字通り駆け回って敵を潰して回るゲーム M＆Bライクと事前レビューで評されていたが、正直そこまで似ていない。ワールドマップと戦場マップの切り替えはなくOW形式だし、このゲームにおいて部下の昇格は戦闘力を上げるためではなく昇格させた部下に手勢を付けて部隊規模を拡大させる為に行うものなので考え方が根本的にM＆Bとは違う。 ただ土地を与えることで下人を侍、若党、御家人とランクアップさせていき、身分に応じた規模の手勢の面倒を見させて勢力を拡大させていくというシステムは封建制をよく表せていて個人的には好き。 また野営地の整備はこういう建築系が好きな人は中々楽しいと思う。部下の戦闘力に直接関わるので興味がなくても一通り設置はしよう。 ただ不満点もあり ・読み込みが不安定 一度読み込んでしまえばスムーズに動くが読み込みがとにかく不安定。そのままフリーズすることもしばしば ・敵が丸見え リアルタイムでの敵の動きを売りにしているがマップ上で敵の動きが全部丸見え。事前に逃げるのは容易だし自拠点が攻め落とされたりも現状確認できていないので逃げ放題。「道を進む際は慎重に、木々の影にも注意を払おう。」とか書くなら戦場の霧はもう少し深くしてもよかったと思う ありそうでなかったゲームだし粗はあるが私は割と好きなゲーム

I really do wish I could recommend this game since I loved Warlord: Britannia, but ultimately aside from having improved graphics, it falls flat in every other regard. If we look at Britannia as an example for depth, when you went and took over settlements, you could easily be overrun if you went unprepared and upon capturing a settlement, you had a few options for how much mercy you would show, which could increase your earnings, building a stronger legion, at the cost of pissing off the entire map. The upside was that, if your camp had enough fortifications built up, it didn't matter too much if the enemies attacked you. In Awaji on the other hand, settlements serve no real purpose other than a one and done resource supply. You take a place, make a little cash, maybe find a weapon and move on. There are a few that act as fast travel points and burning settlements down will make it a bit harder to field an army, but at the end of the day there's so many places and so few troops (compared to Britannia) that it doesn't matter what you do with them. Oh and if you're attacked, forget about defending your camp, there's no real form of defence in the game. The addition of diplomacy is nice, but at the end of the day, it feels rather shallow in how much you can actually do. It seems to boil down to looting a limited number of coins from a settlement, then paying someone to either improve relations, make peace, ally with you, or... curse your enemies to make them spirtually weaker. Ultimately, I think this is one game that would benefit greatly from having more focus put on how the player interacts with the world, especially with how much it was talked about during development. Diplomacy could use more depth settlements passively providing some sort of supply for weapons, armour and money would be nice... and I really, really wish that we had the ability to make use of some of the structures that we capture, rather than just having a "fort" being nothing more than an AI manned fast travel point. TDLR, Britannia with better graphics and basic diplomacy, but lacking in every other aspect. Skip it for now and go conquer Britannia instead.

HUGE letdown, there is just plain nothing to do, no incentive whatsoever to keep going, just a repetitive loop of capture settlement, set up camp to heal, upgrade your troop to like, 1 of 2 options, then go to the next outpost, thats it. You can't decide your army composition, you can't use tactics other than hold vs charge, there is no economy at all, recruiting is free, the only way to progress the game is conquering, and every single village is exactly the same. The combat is just left-click slash, right-click block, that's it, nothing else. There is no diplomacy either. I was expecting a different flavor of Mount and Blade with some new ideas and a smaller scope, but this is just not even trying.

Demo runs fine but the actual game is insanely poorly optimized, unplayable at its current state, concept is unique though maybe if that issue is fixed all good. I can run GTA V perfectly but this game breaks my fps??? Give it a few more months.

Darkmatter has done a great job bringing warfare in the Genko-period to life. The research that has gone into faithfully recreating the armor, weapons, and locations of the period is very impressive, and I admire the commitment greatly. The gameplay is fun and it is engaging to build you camp and army up bit by bit, getting new equipment in small doses might not be for everyone, but I think it's fun to see your army develop into a formidable fighting force gradually. Unfortunately, it's not all good. The most glaring issue issues for me are the lack of depth in some areas in the game, namely diplomacy and the choices we get to make when attacking settlements. These options are appreciated, but the balance between different choices is greatly skewed, meaning you'll only make some choice for purely roleplay reasons. If you played Warlord Britannia, it is missing a certain level of the depth that game had, for better and for worse. Essentially, there is no reason to engage in diplomacy with the enemy clans, because doing so provides no gameplay benefit (beyond them sending you troops which you could just get from the many temples instead, if you even need support at all). It would be one thing if enemy clans made more actions on their own, launching attacks on you at will and thus making it advantageous to broker peace with them. However, enemy clans only attack in response to your actions and movements, making it extremely predictable and deriving them of any element of surprise unless you really are not paying attention. If they had a bit more agency to act on their own, maybe trying to retake their captured territory, then engaging in diplomacy might have more incentive. However, I understand its not a full on strategy game and adding too many systems could be beyond its scope. Likewise, another thing that has no real purpose (beyond wanting to be evil) is razing buildings. Since razing buildings actively deprives you of the resource you need to upgrade your troops for no additional benefit, such as increased loot, there is no practical reason to do it. All of this said, I want to say that I understand that many choices and changes were made from Britannia to Awaji to better reflect the nature of the time period and warfare in it. But I think there is absolutely room to add more agency to NPC factions while staying within the bounds of history, which I think would make the game even better.

I've been playing this game for around 13 hours now and I find it very captivating. Once you're out of the starting areas and get to bigger and better stuff, the real fun starts. I've seen many people compare this to Warlord: Britannia, but you can't - and shouldn't really do that. Considering that this has been out for a week, and it's still a single Developer with the help of some few contractors, I think this is a very good base to build on for future updates, which I know will come. Many people disliked Britannia when it first came, but it got better and better... and even more so will Awaji! Can recommend buying the game to experience it and also see first hand what the Developer does to improve everyones experience. Good Job

The game feels far too simplistic for what it is.

I'm liking the game so far, and I love how you upgrade your troops by giving them land. This game really does stay true to history. The combat in this game is very simple, but satisfying and adds so much to the replayability. It's what kept me playing the demo and the combat certainly doesn't fail here. Some things I think would be great to add onto this game: 1. I would like it if there are more ways to get supplies other than capturing settlements. Maybe you can use your coins to purchase resources off of other factions. 2. I would like there to be some sort of reward for razing settlements. As of right now, there really isn't any reason to raze settlements other than for roleplaying as the evil military ruler. Perhaps make it so you get more supplies and gold for razing settlements. 3. PLEASE ADD TABLES!!! And just add more decorations in general. 4. This may be a bit of a stretch, but if coop can somehow be implemented, that would be GREAT! 5. This goes without saying since many others are complaining about this, but this game definitely needs optimization And I will end things on this note. This game has great potential and a lot of effort has clearly been put into this, many compliments to the dev and those who helped contribute to making this great game.