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Dynasty Warriors 4 (2003)

Duration: 50:50

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Played as a bunch of characters for these stages since most people are leveled now.

Playing Shi Ting first and failing to prevent Zhou Fang's strategy causes Zhou Fang to appear at Fan Castle. Defeating him at Fan Castle causes enemy morale to drop, so it's actually a blessing in disguise (and more EXP). If we'd prevented it, then Cao Xiu would show up to help at Fan Castle instead. Clearing Fan Castle and Shi Ting and defeating SSX and Lu Xun in those stages will prevent SSX from arriving at He Fei and take Lu Xun out of Hyper Mode when he arrives.

It's been a while since I played these stages. I remembered Fan Castle being harder. He Fei ended up being harder than I expected due to the enemy morale just skyrocketing as their high morale reinforcements show up and Zhang Liao not really doing all that much on your side. Sun Jian also jumps the bridge quick so they recover from the ambush within minutes. I guess the idea is that the "efficient" way of clearing the stage is to take out Sun Jian when he's ambushed, but then you miss out on almost the entire stage's worth of EXP and stat boosters.

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