Long Wait Between Games
Did you miss your ancient Chinese warlords? They certainly missed you.
With a new Dynasty Warriors game arriving every year or two, it was clear that a bout of series fatigue was surfacing. Omega Force brand manager Kenichi Ogasawara confessed in a Famitsu interview that there were not enough innovations in the previous game, stating that ‘the evolution from Dynasty Warriors 7 to 8 was insufficient’.
It will certainly help that this will be the first mainline entry in the series in quite some time, with a five year gap between this title and Dynasty Warriors 8. In the meantime, obviously, the Warriors franchise has dabbled in crossovers – with Hyrule Warriors and Fire Emblem Warriors carrying the load in the absence of a fully fledged sequel. The tweaks that each of these presented to make them truer to their source material helped to keep them fresh and unique, and ought to successfully bridge the gap to what looks to be the most ambitious Warriors game yet.
DW9 will treat you to hours worth of cutscenes and dialogue, and multiple endings for different characters, as opposed to one per faction. How many epilogues can they possibly come up with? Surely some will be less ambitious than others, perhaps something along the lines of ‘Guan Ping celebrated his victory by buying a splendid pair of trousers’, but still, we can’t wait to watch every last one of them.
