Its funny to me how he only says IMBECILES like once or twice in the second game.
Really? Who? I thought the dubing were excellent.
Its a good thing XL sorta fixes that.
The Osaka missions in Spirit of Sanada were peak, I loved the moment in the defense of the Sanada-Maru when Masamune orders a mass charge while Yukimura orders all of his soldiers to withdraw, "I can take on all of you with just my spear!"
Noh's actress in 2 is way too young. The guy who voiced Keiji/Magoichi was good sometimes.
SW2 is my favorite in the series but it had a lot of baffling design decisions. Dropping floklore characters like Ranmaru and Okuni but wasting character slots on Musashi and Kojiro, making the focus more on Hideyoshi but not adding in any Chugoku characters and cutting Kennyo and Inabayama, trying to keep the ninjas relevant by swapping Kunoichi with Nene but cutting the castle dungeon-crawling while adding Osaka, Ueda and two stages for Odawara, expanding the movesets but cutting the lite-rpg mechanics, releasing the XL after Empires, getting rid of branching stories but reusing the maps about as much as SW1 in far less creative ways, etc. 2 would have been the best musou game if Koei had just been willing to shoot themselves in the foot after crossing the finish line for once.
SW4+SOS and DW9
It's fun and worth a buy if you can ignore the fujobait, price is dependent on how bad you need a musou fix. Probably sale for most people.
I went to 2:34 and was immediately greeted with her comparing herself showing up on time to Jesus turning water into wine, might want to specify 2:34:50.
that's probably the best summary of KOEI games anyone could make.
Excepting their strategy games which are industry hallmarks, Koei games used to be some of the best in that old mid-tier market that studios like Pandemic also flourished in. Not good or big budget enough to be trend-setters, but fun, had a lot of soul and some interesting ideas. I'm still waiting for a proper sequel to Kessen 3, musou and total war worked together weirdly well.
Yeah, Kessen 3 and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series were all surprisingly good, and no one was making a similar game, so can't call them B tier, even though I want to call them B tier because they were KOEI as fuck.
