Samurai Warriors 5 - extreme makeover games edition

[Scarlett Johansson]

Well...there's going to be a Samurai Warriors 5. And the art style reminds me of Okami.

They've seemingly deaged characters.

 

[Arm Pit Cream]

>basic cel shading
>LOOKS LIKE OKAMI!!!!111!!

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

>basic cel shading
>LOOKS LIKE OKAMI!!!!111!!
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Nigga.....

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

looks gay as fuck. everyone is now a god damn pretty boy to satisfy the yaoi crowed. doubt we will ever get anything as good as dynasty warriors 8 ever again.

i replayed samurai warriors one last year and it surprised me how simple yet, enjoyable the older titles were. the castle levels can fuck off though.

"We have no chance in winning this battle now."
"All there is left to do is find a dying place worthy of a Sanada warrior."

kino.

 

[Arm Pit Cream]

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Nigga.....

Not everything cel shaded is "like okami", it looks nothing like it you're blind.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I tried the PS2 original a handful of years ago and wasn't impressed, the utterly lifeless levels and the repetition of the combat made me turn it off after about 15 minutes, if even that, it reminded me why I never liked the look of those other type of games from back then and bothered to play them.

However it does still warm the cockles of my heart to see anything from the PS2 days get a new entry and I feel like with the advancement of technology I'd like this type of game better today maybe.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

The Gundam and One Piece musou games are fun to play I guess

 

[Tism the Return]

Musou games are my shit regardless of how repetitive they are, still the new artstyle makes this look like the last Samurai Shodown game.

 

[Kotol]

If anything, the art style reminds me of Sengoku Basara, which I wish was more popular in the west, but what can you do.

Hopefully the rest of the cast features some gruffer looking characters. Not everyone needs to look like an old man or fugly of course, but I liked some of the mature/older looking designs in SW2. Hideyoshi was the best, that funny monkey made me smile.

 

[Dark Edea]

Not everything cel shaded is "like okami", it looks nothing like it you're blind.

Yeah. Cell shaded games are like Wind Waker. Get your fucking shit straight.

Also I have trouble playing any Warriors game anymore that doesn't have "Zelda" in the title. Those games really exposed the rest of the series.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

If anything, the art style reminds me of Sengoku Basara, which I wish was more popular in the west, but what can you do.

Hopefully the rest of the cast features some gruffer looking characters. Not everyone needs to look like an old man or fugly of course, but I liked some of the mature/older looking designs in SW2. Hideyoshi was the best, that funny monkey made me smile.

Katsuie and Yoshimoto look older. There's still a lot more characters that need to appear.

 

[Dark Edea]

When I first saw this trailer reveal I was dumb and hopeful and thought maybe we'd be getting a localization of a new (or newer) Nobunaga's Ambition game.

Should have known... never gonna fucking happen.

 

[Kotol]

Katsuie and Yoshimoto look older. There's still a lot more characters that need to appear.
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My boy Yoshimoto finally looks like a warlord instead of a joke character!

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

speaking of sengoku basara, i was rather sad it never made a hit in the west. the English voice cast was really good as well.

 

[Kotol]

speaking of sengoku basara, i was rather sad it never made a hit in the west. the English voice cast was really good as well.

I believe it had a lot to do with the botched localisation. Remember Devil Kings? They went through all this effort to redesign soldiers and maps to give them a fantasy feeling, they renamed every character (Ujimasa = Orwick, an old man that for some reason dresses like a japanese warrior but lives in a pyramid and his soldiers are I think either mummies or shakals? Yukimura = Scorpio and the list goes on.)

I don't know if I misremember, but Akechi Mitsuhide was not playable in the west because "muh sadistic evil man bad, no fun allowed" and SB2 never had a western release as well, so people couldn't relate to SB3's story, following Hideyoshi's death. You just see a cutscene and wonder "Who is this guy? Is he a playable character? Oh, he isn't."

Older characters came back with SB3 Utage, but not for us filthy ungrateful westerners. Knowing Capcom though, that one Kasuga cutscene where she pole dances would have probably been censored anyways, so who knows what fuckery they would have pulled beside that.

Last but not least: WHY DID YOU REPLACE THE ENDING CREDITS SONG IN SB3 BY CHIAKI ISHIKAWA WITH SOME RANDOM SAD SOUNDING MUSIC THAT IS COMPLETELY FORGETABLE AND BORING?!


Back to Samurai Warriors. I really liked SW1, making your own character with a modified NPC moveset is pretty neat. Wish they had done something similar in Dynasty Warriors 5 Extreme Legends, but sadly you just copy the weapon/moveset of your commanding general. They did thankfully add 2 movesets (which would later become the movesets of Nu Wa and Fu Xi in Warriors Orochi 2) and in DW5 Empires they finally got around to letting us mess around with NPC movesets.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

i really want to replay samurai warriors 2 at some point but cant bring myself to do it because i want to play XL as well and, while possible on a emulator, its extremely tedious to set up.

guess i play orochi 2 instead or something.

 

[John Titor]

I mean, the series is no stranger to beatifying their characters but I guess they decided to abuse that rule.

I believe it had a lot to do with the botched localisation. Remember Devil Kings? They went through all this effort to redesign soldiers and maps to give them a fantasy feeling, they renamed every character (Ujimasa = Orwick, an old man that for some reason dresses like a japanese warrior but lives in a pyramid and his soldiers are I think either mummies or shakals? Yukimura = Scorpio and the list goes on.)

I don't know if I misremember, but Akechi Mitsuhide was not playable in the west because "muh sadistic evil man bad, no fun allowed" and SB2 never had a western release as well, so people couldn't relate to SB3's story, following Hideyoshi's death. You just see a cutscene and wonder "Who is this guy? Is he a playable character? Oh, he isn't."

Older characters came back with SB3 Utage, but not for us filthy ungrateful westerners. Knowing Capcom though, that one Kasuga cutscene where she pole dances would have probably been censored anyways, so who knows what fuckery they would have pulled beside that.

Last but not least: WHY DID YOU REPLACE THE ENDING CREDITS SONG IN SB3 BY CHIAKI ISHIKAWA WITH SOME RANDOM SAD SOUNDING MUSIC THAT IS COMPLETELY FORGETABLE AND BORING?!


Back to Samurai Warriors. I really liked SW1, making your own character with a modified NPC moveset is pretty neat. Wish they had done something similar in Dynasty Warriors 5 Extreme Legends, but sadly you just copy the weapon/moveset of your commanding general. They did thankfully add 2 movesets (which would later become the movesets of Nu Wa and Fu Xi in Warriors Orochi 2) and in DW5 Empires they finally got around to letting us mess around with NPC movesets.

I don't know why Capcom thinks we're too dumb to think we don't know what Japan is. They made Onimusha for God's sake.

 

[Kotol]

I mean, the series is no stranger to beatifying their characters but I guess they decided to abuse that rule.

I don't know why Capcom thinks we're too dumb to think we don't know what Japan is. They made Onimusha for God's sake.

Yeah, I think Sengoku Basara suffered greatly like One Piece did. First impressions are super important and they fucked it up. Granted, the One Piece 4Kids shit was a whole different situation where some big wigs thought they were buying the rights to an anime for children like Pokemon and quickly realized that Oda doesn't fuck around.

But it definitely made many people believe for many years that One Piece was "that weird corny show with the screaming rubber monkey man full of lame references and weird accents" and I guess the same happened with Sengoku Basara/Devil Kings. "Devil Kings was that weird japanese hack and slash that was just all over the place, right?" You cannot easily recover from that.
Also cheesy voice acting...and for some reason a lisping Yoshimoto with a heavy gay-sounding asian accent as well. (go to 8:20)

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

https://www.siliconera.com/samurai-warriors-5-oichi-and-azai-nagamasa-redesigns-revealed/

oichi and nagamasa's designs revealed

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

https://www.siliconera.com/samurai-warriors-5-oichi-and-azai-nagamasa-redesigns-revealed/

oichi and nagamasa's designs revealed

eh, nagamasa was always a pretty boy and oichi has always been jailbait. surprised they not shown yukimura or masamune yet or will they not be in the game?

i have a question for you guys. what do you think about the lawsuit that went between koei and capcom over the Xtreme Legends claim? is it still a thing or has koei found a work around it? i remember that lawsuit being the reason samurai warriors 4 got butchered.

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lol they making a dynasty warriors movie and IT LOOKS AWFUL