Game:

Dynasty Warriors 3 (2001)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 3:40:34

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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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We're back to Wu. Sun Ce can be the Wu commander in battles instead of Sun Quan after you clear his Story Mode, but only until you clear Sun Jian, who will take priority and replace both of them.
This has the side-effect of erasing Sun Quan from the stages, as he's always the commander and will now get replaced by Sun Ce every time. Sun Quan still appears in Free Mode as these replacements don't happen there.
Sun Ce has his versions of anything Sun Quan can say, so I do him now to give plenty of opportunity to hear his lines in further playthroughs.

Moveset-wise, he doesn't have much horizontal range. All the attacks are very 1v1, and a lot of them count as airborne as well, making them quite unsafe to use.
C6 is a multi-hit attack, weak but good for combos for doubled drops.
Main options for attacking are either regular normal attack spam, or setting the enemy on Fire with C5 first and then juggling them by repeating the first five normal attacks.
Even though Musou leaves enemies planted on the ground, each hit is extremely narrow and quite weak considering it only really hits one person at a time. This also means on playable officers you can't get more than six hits in with it, as they'll musou back and force a deadlock every time.

Sun Ce's Unique Weapon gives Speed/Jump/Musou/Life and a fire element on C5 and the last hit of C6, so overall it's not really that good, especially the musou bar being so much longer gets even harder to charge up. The C5 Fire attack is okay, but easy to get knocked out of as Sun Ce jumps for it.

Like always, Hu Lao Gate is quite painful with a first weapon as it lacks the moveset, attack speed, and range.
By the way, the ram only spawns if you get close enough to trigger the cutscene yourself. If you don't, your allies can still open the gate themselves, and if that happens, there's no ram in front of the gate.

Wu Territory is where the unique weapon is, with the simple requirement to get Taishi Ci to surrender by defeating Liu Yong, so you have to be quick at the start (under 2 minutes) so that the eastern gate opens, which lets you skip past Taishi Ci and go straight for Liu Yong.

The rest of the stages are the same as before, with the only change being that Sun Ce is the commander now instead of Sun Quan, which erases Sun Quan from Story Mode altogether, except for the ending scenes.
Sun Ce ends at Nanman Campaign, so there is no need to play the hardest stages with him. He also gets the best ending with the two Qiaos doing the dancing.

At this point:
10/32 Characters Done
8/12 Rare Items Obtained
11/13 Regular Items are at or above 75% of their maximum value (3 are fully maxed)

Chapters:
00:00 Start
00:18 The Battle at Hu Lao Gate
32:30 Assault on Wu Territory
49:31 The Battle at Chi Bi
01:37:19 The Battle at He Fei
02:03:02 The Battle at Fan Castle
02:15:52 The Battle at Yi Ling
02:48:54 Nanman Campaign
03:36:00 Ending (Text)
03:37:28 Ending (Cutscenes)

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