
Some enemies can only be defeated by magic too. You can use a few different magic attacks with this, which hit different types of areas. You have another gauge for that which automatically fills up over time. You can then trigger a powerful attack that hits most things nearby and depletes it. Musou attacks are pretty straightforward – kill enough and the gauge fills up. You can use both Musou attacks and magical attacks. I’ll talk about the special attacks first. Despite this, you have a great variety of choices in how you do this, some of which are unlockable later. You run around a battlefield and chain together a mixture of normal attacks, heavy attacks and special attacks to defeat enemies. If you’ve played one of the Warriors titles before, there aren’t too many surprises in the basics. I’ve never found the draw of these games to be the story though, but instead the next section. It’s told in a nice mix of CG scenes and voiced textboxes. While I wouldn’t say that the story is amazing, there are a fair amount of surprising turns and it kept me interested enough. After almost any level, you will find that you have at least a couple of new characters to play as. Throughout the story, quite a few different events happen but the most common event is defeating other generals on the battlefield and convincing them to join your side. We soon learn that things are not as they seem. This is while searching for a way back to your own worlds. You decide to form an alliance, both to stand against him and to learn about the power he has somehow gained. He has recruited people, both from his own world and his others to join him. Nobunaga appears and starts conquering the land, using a mysterious power. We find ourselves finding Naotora, Naomasa, and Tadakatsu. Characters from various times and places have been transported there. The story opens with the gods causing realities twisting together to make a new world. Instead of being based on an admittedly less than accurate retelling of history, it goes full-on magic and myth. If you have only ever played the more well-known Dynasty Warriors or Samurai Warriors, the story in Warriors Orochi may come as a bit of a shock to you. It includes 177 characters, both from the Dynasty and Samurai Warriors titles, but also ones original to the Orochi spin-off and a handful from elsewhere. This title is the series’ ‘ Everyone is here’ moment. In most of the titles, these are generals somewhat based on historical figures but in Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate they also include more mythical figures such as Zeus or anthropomorphic bulls. These are all 3D hack’n’slash games, where you need to defeat a number of generals and millions of their disposable soldiers. This particular one is the expanded version of Warriors Orochi 4, with some additional side stories, characters, and other content.įor those less familiar with this title, it is essentially a crossover of the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series’ with a more fantastical storyline.
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The series as a whole started in the year 2000, with the Orochi titles popping up near the latter half of the decade. Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate is my long-awaited return to the Warriors series.
