How in the **** do they keep selling Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors games? I guess it's just the culture, but doesn't Japan understand that those games are horrible?
They aren't horrible games. They're okay games. They're just the same games for the past eleven years
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The Warriors/Musou games are a guilty pleasure for me so I'm forgiving of its many faults. I loved playing beat'em ups video games when I was younger. Warriors games are those beat'em ups, in all their good and bad, multiplied. Sadly, they have not embraced the evolutions of that game conceit (be a guy/gal and melee smash or slash your way through baddies) that other games like Devil May Cry, God of War, or Ninja Gaiden brought.
It's frustrating for me because the Warriors games should be so much more awesome. It takes two things I love in my movies, Kung Fu and war, and combines them in to Kung Fu wars! That should be so awesome, but the Warriors games executes it in such a stilted, limited, unvaried, shallow, grinding and repetitive manner that is mediocre. It still makes for some good moments and it is always a pleasure to slowly have your allied color dominate the field (there's a reason why missions have 30 or 60 minute timers and it's because the game plays really well to slowly and surely pushing your army's front line). Hmm, I guess Warriors games can work like some sort of comfort food.
Lastly, it should be mentioned that (most of) the Warriors games are based on historical periods (Three Kingdoms era of China and Warring States period of Japan) that east asia appears to be crazy for. There are so many takes on the history and it never stops. Perhaps it is that fascination with those histories that fuels the success of Warriors games.