Written yesteryear Alexander O. Cuaycong together with Anthony L. Cuaycong
Title: Warriors All-Stars
Developer: Omega Force
Publisher: Koei Tecmo
Genre: Action, Hack together with Slash
Price: $59.99
Also Available On: Steam
Back inward 1997, Dynasty Warriors was released on the PlayStation to much fanfare. Known for developing titles with historical settings, Koei banked on the popularity of weapon-based fighting games to generate a loyal next for what would plough out to live an establishment of a series. From Dynasty Warriors ii onwards, it has thrived on producing worthy additions to the crowd-combat genre, featuring unique twists provided yesteryear the immersion of its playable characters inward famous Asian conflicts. And then successful has it been that it has spawned 6 sub-series together with numerous independent titles, alongside them Warriors All-Stars. As the newest add-on to the family, the latter shows just how much the franchise and, yesteryear extension, the fellowship get got evolved together with changed through the years.
As with Warriors Orochi, Warriors All-Stars showcases characters from Koei's other highly regarded brands, alongside them Nioh, Atelier, together with Dead or Alive. While this mightiness experience off at rootage glance, the agency the characters together with their moves are designed feels completely natural. Each of the xxx characters from thirteen dissimilar serial has his or her ain unique fighting trend together with laid of strengths together with weaknesses. Regular attacks, particular attacks, together with musou attacks are good animated, underscoring the degree of operate that went into each character. Painstaking aid has been made to present each every bit a one-to-one representation of his or her source together with non every bit a cardboard cutout.
Exclusive to Warriors All-Stars are Hero Skills (which allow allied characters to create a serial of particular moves to help your grapheme straight inward combat) together with Rush Stars (which enable allied officers to saltation inward together with laid on inward tandem with your character). Visually, these await stunning together with flashy, together with are a sight to behold persuasion the rootage fourth dimension around, embodying the really type of fan-service giddiness that the game intends y'all to experience every bit y'all sentinel your dearest characters hack together with cleave their agency through hordes of enemies. Add the Bravery mechanic, which actively rewards together with powers upwardly yours grapheme based on the fulfilment of in-game tasks together with enemy takedowns, together with it’s clear that Warriors All-Stars wants y'all to beverage a to a greater extent than energetic, fast- paced together with feel-good experience.
Content-wise, Warriors All-Stars is no slouch; side quests are available for play together with the vast basis map is for sure to add together hours of playtime. That said, the stages create tend to await the same later a while, together with whereas they were open, varied, together with expansive inward previous titles, they instantly get got on a to a greater extent than corridor-like together with linear design, forcing y'all to navigate through tighter rooms filled with enemies together with hence abandon whatever semblance of strategy to survive.
Considering that the biggest depict of Warriors All-Stars is its impressive assembly of familiar faces, it tin hand the axe live forgiven for lacking inward the story department. Certainly, it commits to shape over substance, highlighting polished gameplay together with visuals over engrossing plot progression. It does care to select all the characters together, together with inward a reasonable manner, but it largely sets aside narrative expanse; it hints of prophecy together with kingship, together with overall, side-characters be to hand to a greater extent than expository dialogue, but the core reasons behind turns of events are ultimately irrelevant. To live sure, only nigh all Warriors games (with the notable exception of Spirit of Sanada) endure from the same limitations, together with Koei Tecmo has creditably never sold its titles every bit meaningful gray-cell exercises.
If at that spot is whatever dark score on Warriors All-Stars, it’s derived from Koei Tecmo’s determination to chuck the Free Play mode, a pop alternative that counted every bit a serial measure going dorsum to Dynasty Warriors 2. No longer tin hand the axe y'all only run the game to replay whatever together with all missions that y'all had already finished. Along with a character-unlock organisation that compels y'all to commit to 1 story, it points to a witting essay out to emphasize the title’s pseudo-RPG leanings.
All told, Warriors All-Stars lives upwardly to its premise. It aims for fan service, together with it amply delivers. Compared to other releases inward the Warriors series, it’s to a greater extent than polished together with much smoother to play through fifty-fifty every bit for sure elements get got been sacrificed to streamline the gameplay. For fans of Koei Tecmo's games, together with at that spot are legion, it’s a definite buy. Everybody else may desire to start with its siblings first.
THE GOOD
- Polished, smooth gameplay
- Outstanding Hero Skills, Rush Stars, together with Bravery mechanics
- Numerous missions to play through
- Iconic characters are aplenty
- No Free Mode
- Thin storyline
- Small together with linear levels
- Repetitively unproblematic at times
SCORE: 8/10
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