This could have quite easily have been any of the Warriors Orochi games, as I enjoyed all of them roughly the same. I know a lot of people will say it's just Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors combined, but I think that the Orochi series is a lot more than just that. Sure adding the ability to swap between a choice of three characters on the fly is the main difference to this and the other DW/SW games.Yet the story-lines and slightly different gameplay make this a refreshing change from the DW series which was starting to stagnate and helped breathe new life into the game genre.
The only bad thing I can say about Orochi 3 is that you don't have to grind the levels so much to achieve 100% completion in other games, this could be due to the new Tecmo-Koei merger which seems to have resulted in making games easier in the hopes of appealing to the mass market that normally shuns them.
Crimson Sea is one game I stumbled across by accident while looking for something to play, I saw the box art and the reasonable price and thought it was worth the gamble. (To think I nearly bought Enter The Matrix instead *Shudder) Luckily for me I ended up getting an enjoyable game that played like a cross between an adventure game than the hack n slash gameplay that Koei is known for today. The visuals probably look dated quite a bit today, yet back in 2003 the game was very easy on the eye.
The game sold well enough to receive a sequel that I remember wasn't as much fun as the first game, (although it was still a good game in it's own right) and even stranger was a PS2 exclusive. I say strange because a lot of people with a PS2 probably won't have played the first game, so probably skipped over getting the sequel as a result.
Samurai Warriors 2 may seem like an odd choice to some people especially with there being a third game out, but then when you realise the third game only came out on the Wii in the UK then it's off little surprise that the 2nd game has taken this spot.
Samurai Warriors 2 came out at just the right time for me as I started to get bored of the crap games being released on the 360 at the time. (Games like The Outfit, Rumble Roses XX and the yearly sports updates) Samurai Warriors 2 basically just took the Dynasty Warriors and added little things to make it a worth while update and fun to play. One of the things that really set it apart though is the desktop style board game included, (which was quite a strange inclusion as it really wasn't something I expected) which saw you competing against four opponents for gold. Thinking about it I may have to give the game a whirl again sometime soon.
What can be said about the latest Dynasty Warriors game; I know I should have really included an Empires version in my list, yet it's the main series that really got me hooked onto this style of game. (Strangely though I didn't like the first game in the series, yet really enjoyed the 2nd although they seemed near enough identical)
I think one of the main things I enjoy is that the characters are based on real people that lived thousands of years ago and their legend lives on today. Not only in games though, but also through films and books that are still being made and written. Number 7 though has to be the best in the series so far, taking all the best bits of the other games and improving on them.
I really didn't play the game as much as I should have done due to outside issues like shitty internet, but when I did manage to get online I have to say I enjoyed the experience and was amazed at how smoothly the game ran with all the enemies on screen at once.
Now quite a few of you will be looking at this wondering just what the crap this game is doing here, and to be honest with you it would seem like a strange choice to me if it wasn't for the fact that the game was pretty addictive to play. Back in the days of the Amiga 500 I like many used to go round to the local car boot and buy the latest games that had been pirated.
Romance is a strategy game that sees you trying to gain control of all of China, this was done by developing land, paying taxes and invading other provinces.It sound's pretty boring but like I said it was strangely addictive and I used to play it sporadically for hours on end. To be honest though I can't really remember 100% if I owned the first or second game, looking at the release dates though I am pretty sure it was the second game in the series.
Mystic Heroes reminds me of a Dynasty Warriors game for younger kids, I think it got it's teen rating just because you have at other people with swords and other weapons. (Game ratings started to get a bit more stricter after the shock horror of GTA on the original Playstation sent the nation into an uproar) Either way I tested the game before playing it with my 5 year old son, luckily though he managed to contain himself from rampaging round town attacking people with a broom handle.
Thinking about it now the game was alright but not amazing, it could be that because it was one of the first games that me and my son played together where he didn't suck, and that's why it sticks out in my mind and awarded it a place on this list, then again that could be what makes some games seem more fun when you think about them.
So there you go, that's my top 6 Koei games maybe I should do a list of my least favourite Koei games next, including some of the dodgy games below....
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| These games suck, especially Gundam and Fatal Inertia |
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