
The game controls are tight, responsive, and match the speed at which your warrior blurs across the screen, ending lives in awesome displays of supernatural power that would make most X-Men jealous. You will see dozens of enemies swarming you onscreen in one moment before sweeping them away in the blink of an eye with a Musou (special) attack. The story mode of Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends plays very simply: running/riding from tactical point A to B in a string of historic battles while pressing two attack buttons in combinations to unleash moves that the poor enemy soldiers have no chance to defend against. In this sense, nothing has changed in this iteration over its predecessors, but there are several improvements to the game that veterans and newcomers alike will appreciate while playing the newest edition of one of the most over-told historical operas. All in the name of your Lord and kingdom.

By the end of each stage, it is not unheard of to have racked up a kill count in the thousands. Now, when I say “play”, I mean “carve swathes through literally dozens of soldiers at a time as you complete missions that bring your warlords closer to victory”. To those unfamiliar with the franchise (there probably aren’t too many anymore) you play as an officer of one of three factions in an era of China’s history known as the Three Kingdoms Period-following the fall of the Han Dynasty: the Wu, Shu, and Wei.
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I’ve been out of the series for a while, but what I found in the latest edition by Tecmo Koei surprised me in a very good way.

I thought I was done with the Dynasty Warriors franchise with Dynasty Warriors 4. Yet somehow the prospect of re-assuming the role of an ancient Chinese general in Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends and single-handedly demolishing entire armies was too great to resist.
