![]() I especially appreciate what the developers did with the Battle of Chibi – or Red Cliffs, if you rather. There was a lot of conflict through Three Kingdoms era, with numerous small battles each leading to a major, decisive battle, and the way that DW8:XL builds up momentum from one level to the next in order to ensure that the decisive battles feel the most grand and important is impressive. These designs are confused a little since in DW8:XL you can assign any weapon you like to any character, which has the benefits of boosting the player’s tactical and gameplay options at the cost of the authenticity that Koei worked into the game and design, though in cut scenes characters are always presented as their “default.”Įach of the battles also works on this premise of being authentic to the record presented within the book, while often relying on symbolic authenticity in order to make the battles work from a gameplay perspective. Or Gan Ning’s shirtless and tattooed design, representing his background as a pirate. Traditionally, in Dynasty Warriors, each character has a weapon that is in some way reflective of their historical persona Cao Ren’s shield, representing his reputation as a defender, for example. The weapons and character designs too, are authentic, albeit from a symbolic perspective. Dee Dee wishes you a very merry Christmas December 31, 2018 #DW8 #DW8XLDE #NintendoSwitch /VyaNmpJ6Vg ![]() She hits thousands of dudes right where they deserve. Sun Shangxiang is forever mah history waifu <3. In that context, the Dynasty Warriors series has always been accurate – it’s just accurate to the book, rather than the raw history. In other words, as far as the book’s concerned, the likes of Lu Bu, Cao Cao, Sun Quan and Liu Bei did indeed personally lead attacks in which they were solely responsible for the decimation of entire units of enemy soldiers, and tacticians such as Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi were elevated in the book to having actually mystical powers. In addition to fabricating certain characters, Luo’s book also takes a completely fanciful approach to the prowess of the various heroes that it depicts. The only problem was, historically, Diochan almost certainly didn’t exist. It’s a great story that Shakespeare himself would have loved, since Lu Bu was an incredibly powerful fighter… and the adopted son of the tyrant he’s being seduced into killing. According to the book, a beautiful woman called Diochan seduced Lu Bu as part of a plan to have him assassinate a tyrant. The book includes characters of which no historical record exists and were clearly invented by Luo and his collaborators in order to explain events or motivations within the book. Beyond the inevitable difficulties in writing up a record of events over a thousand years old, it’s also a historical novel that’s happy to take extreme liberties with history in order to create some exciting drama. The thing is, though, these games are actually surprisingly authentic to the book, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, that the game is based on.įor those unfamiliar with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is a book attributed to Luo Guanzhong that was penned around 1,200 years after the events that it depicts. After all, in the real history of ancient China, you wouldn’t have had people with hula hoops of doom and claw blades running around notching up kill counts in the thousands, and yet that’s exactly what you do with this series. ![]() One of the things that has always amused me about the Dynasty Warriors series is how readily people chalk it up as “inaccurate.” It makes sense that they might think that, of course. Related reading: Our review of Dynasty Warrior 8: Xtreme Legends that was released on PlayStation 4 as the first PS4 Warriors title ![]()
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