![]() ![]() I’ve never been too harsh on the graphics of any game, since I place both story and gameplay above in terms of importance, so this is hardly what damned Dynasty Warriors 9, but I know many people consider this a major factor. This system feels like the beginnings of what may have been an interesting persistent war mechanic, but never got fleshed out. Random roaming enemy officers can put up decent resistance, but they too are too little to make the game challenging. There is some measure of a persistent war going on in the open world that you can affect - capturing bases will move the frontline, helping your soldiers push forward or better defend your areas. At any given time in the game, there are precisely two factions warring against each other, and you’re always supporting one. The map is, however, dotted with umpteen army camps and bases. The game features no NPCs who aren’t enemies, friendly soldiers or shopkeepers - basically, there are no citizens. ![]() Luoyang is the capital of the empire during a period, and when visting it outside of specific missions that take place there, the entire city is completely deserted save for a pair of guards at each gate plus ~10 NPCs grouped into a cluster of 3 buildings who are your standard shopkeepers, found in a corner of the settlement. There is an invisible wall between me and that lootĬities are pretty vast, but completely empty. My character was hopelessly running in place while packs of tigers and nodes of crafting materials were happily existing a few meters in front of me. Dynasty Warriors 9 opted for the inelegant invisible wall plopped down in front of you, but the best part is that the procedural generation algorithm placed enemies and crafting materials beyond the invisible wall. Some add some kind of insurmountable danger to push you back into bounds. Some games try to hide boundaries with unscalable mountains or endless seas. About 80% of the map is plains with some clusters of forest, with a few mountainous regions on the borders and strewn about in the middle, a patch of snow up north and some water here and there.Īt one point, a side mission took me to the snowy northern area where I decided to take a trip to the edge of the map to see how that’s done. I loved the worlds of, say, Just Cause 2 and Assassin’s Creed Origins, but when I opened the map view of Dynasty Warriors 9 and witnessed its size, I became more exhausted and daunted rather than excited. Now, I’ve always liked open world games, and always loved traipsing around, doing every activity no matter how minor, and just taking in the sights. The developers certainly got the “open” part right, as the map is huge, but it’s also extremely bland, empty, and more repetitive than the dungeons of Dragon Age 2. Dynasty Warriors 9 replaces that with a depressingly huge open world the entirety of which can be freely explored - not that you’d want to do that. In the past, Dynasty Warriors games put players into smaller areas with a timed objective and the games had linear progression for the most part. The problems begin with the biggest change this installment offers over previous entries - the shift to open world. This game is perplexing because time and again the developers proved themselves to be skilled and capable of delivering high-quality games, so the veritable technical disaster that is Dynasty Warriors 9 is a surprising disappointment. This game has problems, serious problems, but at times manages to be fun still - though clearly in spite of its features and mechanics, not because of them. You can learn more about Dynasty Warriors 9, as well as check out the free demo, over at Steam.Dynasty Warriors 9 is a particularly frustrating game, as it loves to rub the fact that it could have been great but turned out to be quite the opposite at every turn. That alone should give you a pretty good idea of whether Dynasty Warriors 9 is something you'd want to get into further or not. So while you can have a nice bit of fun with it, I would still highly recommend checking out the free demo before doing anything else. Here's the sort of content you can expect to see from the Complete Edition:īefore you even consider springing for your wallet, it is important to mention that Dynasty Warriors 9 did not exactly review positively, both on account of its numerous bugs and gameplay problems. Since that is completely unreasonable, even for Dynasty Warriors, Koei Tecmo has recently released a Complete Edition that bundles the base game and all of its DLC in a somewhat more affordable €89,99 package. There is so many of these DLCs, that if you were to buy all of them individually, you would have to spend a rather hefty €676,25! Dynasty Warriors 9 currently features an absolutely ridiculous amount of DLCs which add everything from new weapons to simple cosmetics. ![]()
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