Touken Ranbu Warriors

No doubt this will be a fringe Warriors title. Especially with a new Fire Emblem Warriors right around the corner. Touken Ranbu doesn’t have the pull in the rest of the world that it has in Japan and I’m not 100 per cent sure where the audience is for this game. However, if you go in with an open mind, you’ll find an excellent and surprisingly relevant Ruby Party narrative, backed up with some very confident action brawler design. Basically, any day there’s a new Warriors game to play is a good day, and today’s a very good day indeed.

WayTooManyGamesFerniWrites

8/10

The musou genre has always been an avenue to get my aggression out. It allows me to expel all those frustrations healthily and safely. I also find the “1 vs 1000” moniker many adopt utterly appealing. Coming into Touken Ranbu Warriors, I knew next to nothing about the franchise. The only thing I knew, without a doubt, was there were plenty of handsome boys with jawlines that left me reliving body issues. Out of curiosity about the origins, I dug through the internet, discovering a live-ac...

Capsule ComputersMarie Brisou

7.5/10

Touken Ranbu Warriors is the latest spin-off of the Dynasty Warriors franchise. It shares its gameplay, its strengths but also its weaknesses.

Pure NintendoKirk Hiner

6/10

In Touken Ranbu Warriors, a collection of 15 swords in human form use Musou gameplay to stop the History Retrograde Army from traveling through time to mess up the course of history. And man, do they look good doing it!Read More

GameSpewRichard Seagrave

6/10

Fans of Touken Ranbu will likely enjoy Touken Ranbu Warriors, but those who are also keen gamers will see its obvious flaws. This is a cut-down Warriors experience, for better and for worse. Newcomers may appreciate the more bite-sized maps that you move through in a linear fashion, but others will find them suffocating. And ultimately, the gameplay just feels more repetitive than ever. Still, if you want to follow the story of Touken Ranbu and feel like you’re part of the action, it might be worth a look.

DestructoidCJ Andriessen

6/10

In short, Touken Ranbu Warriors isn’t a game for traditional Musou/Warriors fans. This one’s aimed directly at the crowd that didn’t have to Google the term “Saniwa” when reading this review.

ShackNewsDonovan Erskine

6/10

It’s hard to imagine Touken Ranbu Warriors having strong appeal to anyone that’s not a die-hard Musou fan itching for a new Warriors-like. Those that played the original Touken Ranbu will surely get a kick out of seeing those characters come to life in a new way, but there isn’t much to write home about beyond that novelty. Touken Ranbu Warriors feels like just enough to maybe hold you over until the next mainline Dynasty Warriorsentry comes around.

Nintendo LifeJames Mielke

5/10

Touken Ranbu Warriors is a game best suited for players with little experience with the Dynasty Warriors series in general. If this is meant to appeal primarily to fans of the free-to-play games – with far lower expectations when it comes to action games – as a great big slice of Touken Danshi fan service, this will be a great addition to their collection. For players less versed in the world of Touken Ranbu, this is a much harder sell, offering a rote, repetitive game loop that does little to slake your thirst for a more meaningful, evolving game experience. This criticism could arguably appl...

RPGamerAlex Fuller

Omega Force's Warriors series crosses over with a new property for Touken Ranbu Warriors. Anthropomorphic swords fighting in the late Sengoku period sounds like a great fit, but the diluted gameplay quickly runs thin.