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Samurai Warriors (2004)

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If you've played Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors is more of the same thing only set in Japan.

As a hack 'n slash game, Samurai Warriors has you fight hundreds of soldiers as one major army officer. Although while Dynasty Warriors could literally be played as a linear fighter, where you can rip apart the enemy forces one by one, Samurai Warriors is more consistant on tactics and multiple pathway objectives. It is an interesting idea and varies the gameplay better I think.

Perhaps the best thing about Samurai Warriors to me though was the character customisation mode. It took the existing template from Dynasty Warriors but added an extra layer of depth to it with a graded training mode that would eventually formulate your character's skill overtime. It isn't demonstrated in this video but I reckon you should give it a try anyway.

All in all Samurai Warriors, like other Koei hack 'n' slash ventures, is a marmite experience. You either love it or you don't. Yet Samurai Warriors does a better job than Warriors admittedly in bringing across the passive audience who wouldn't otherwise give it a shot. Had it not been for Devil Kings the following year either, it would of been my favourite in the genre.

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