Game:

Dynasty Warriors 3 (2001)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 3:37:41

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General info here: https://pastebin.com/9XVJyHV9
Link to playlist with all the playthroughs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP_HRkMmTI50Ms_tQ14MwPjP_ceTw5yY

Note: This playthrough uses a relatively recently discovered patch, which disables the auto lock-on system that normally locks the player onto the first enemy they hit with a normal attack, making it impossible to turn afterwards. (see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUzuyzu1k4)

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This playthrough is also sponsored by kanchō. (You'll see what I mean once you hear her in-battle.)

Daqiao is noticeably less good than her sister, lacking most of the good things about the moveset that Xiaoqiao had, biggest loss being the great C3 stun, which is much narrower here, and the musou attack.
The spinning normal attacks count as being airborne, C5 is unusable as it is too slow so the enemy can just guard it, and then there's the C6.
In regular DW3, Daqiao's C6 is absolutely unusable. Here without the lock-on it's freely turnable, but it is not really worth using except for style points. It is one of those multi-hit attacks where all the extra hits barely do any damage, and there's also a programming mistake where if you input the maximum extra hits, the last extra hit knocks the enemy away, so the strongest part of the attack (bringing the fans back) misses.
Daqiao's Musou attack is similarly mostly single-target, but it only hits sporadically and lifts the enemy in the air, lowering the damage.

After eleven playthroughs done, we finally get to see the actual first stage of the game, the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Especially with Wu characters it's easy to screw yourself over as defeating Zhang Liang causes the river to freeze and speeds up the stage progression, and your allies get swarmed and defeated quickly as a result. It also spawns Zhang Man Cheng's group to the south with no warning, they just plop into existence with no message that they're there.
This is the only stage with two Life+10 and Musou+10 pick-ups, with the second set hidden in the alcoves, and requires jumping down from the fortress walls.
Watch out when fighting Zhang Jiao, as he has automatic fire element on his C4, C6, and Musou, so he can easily kill you out of nowhere.

For being the third stage chronologically (in Free Mode), Surprise Attack on Liu Biao has a lot of archers in it. Sun Jian will get himself killed pretty quickly, switching the commander to Sun Ce. Other than that, it's pretty much just going around trying to get all the drops from officers.

Assault on Wu Territory follows right after, with Sun Jian being dead regardless of whether he survived the last stage or not.
If you do the usual route here, you will get exactly zero Attack+ pickups, and then have to do Chi Bi next while your stats are falling behind because of two 30-minute stages with barely any pickups.
The way to avoid this is to go out of your way to defeat Taishi Ci and Yan Bai Hu, who both drop Attack+ here. Daqiao's version of the stage is late enough that all the drops are naturally doubled compared to free mode, so Taishi Ci drops Attack +8 and Yan Bai Hu drops Attack +4, which can be further doubled to +8.
With the usual route, Taishi Ci would surrender, and defeating Yan Bai Hu would end the stage. And considering you need around +100 Attack to max out the base stat value, +16 is quite a lot to miss out on.
At the start of the stage, which gate opens depends on whether you take under or over two minutes to beat the first two officers. Going over forces you south, which is exactly what we need here.

After Chi Bi I got a great third weapon, with Speed +11 and Attack +20 (max value for third weapons)

Daqiao's unique weapon is in Shiting, which she doesn't have in Story Mode (there's even a unique cutscene when you run into Zhenji).
The requirement is simply defeating Zhang He, with the weapon box spawning in Sima Yi's camp.
The weapon itself is okay, with an overall boost to the base Life/Musou/Attack/Defense stats and Luck.

For some reason, Daqiao of all people is the only character who has all the early Wu battles and no filler. (Sun Jian too but he doesn't really count since his Story Mode has 10 stages)
Incredibly lucky item drops in this playthrough, getting good values for 9 out of 13 of them. Combined with Xiaoqiao before, it would be 11/13, missing only a Peacock Urn and Seven Star Orb.

At this point:
12/32 Characters Done
8/12 Rare Items Obtained
13/13 Regular Items are at or above 75% of their maximum value

Chapters:
00:00 Start
00:17 Yellow Turban Rebellion
28:30 The Battle at Hu Lao Gate
57:50 Surprise Attack on Liu Biao
01:14:56 Assault on Wu Territory
01:37:24 The Battle at Chi Bi
02:21:49 The Battle at Yi Ling
02:47:12 The Siege of He Fei Castle
03:16:30 Ending (Text)
03:17:57 Ending (Cutscenes)
03:21:19 The Battle at Shi Ting

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