Dynasty Warriors 8

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Dynasty Warriors 8 is the most satisfying and complete Warriors game yet, dethroning the excellent Warriors Orochi 3. It’s at once familiar and fresh, instantly recognisable at its core yet subtly transformed by intelligent additions and a series of small but noticeable tweaks. Wider changes may come in future instalments, but if this is the last we see of Dynasty Warriors in its current form, then it’s a hell of a way to bow out.

“Dynasty Warriors is still gracing consoles with enormous, repetitive, glorious video game brawls.”

There comes a time when you begin to ask yourself why you’re still playing a series of games that has somehow spawned eight main iterations and countless spin-offs while retelling the same old story over and over again. What could possibly be keeping your interest in a franchise that has done almost nothing but stick to its guns for thirteen years? How is it that Koei’s flagship series has managed to sustain such a loyal fan base for all of this time? There’s no single right answer to these questions – but it’s clear that Dynasty Warriors remains one of the only true constants left in gaming.

It's Dynasty Warriors, with all the good and bad that brings.

The AI remains as dumb as a brick. While usually this wouldn’t be a problem seeing as this is Dynasty Warriors, 8 decided to add some objectives that DON’T revolve around simply killing an officer or….killing more officers. Having to escort an ally to a designated location is infuriating especially if the ally is running into a brick wall half the time. Having to backtrack to move a catapult or to rescue burning peasants is just tedious at best and brutally boring at worst.