There isn’t really anything more than luck available here to use, but you can use more than one in a level. There is a lot of strategy that you could potentially ignore in each of the levels, you can first take different formations into battle, each raising one of three stats, speed, defence and attack, this is a rock paper scissors kind of setup where Speed trumps defence, defence beats attack and attack wins over speed. You can choose the officer you want to play as, and which lord you want to serve, you can either stay as an officer and destroy all enemies, or you can slowly work your way up to become a personal guard of your lord and become one of his most trusted generals. This is a freer mode, where you can actually choose where to attack, how to develop your army, and much more interesting for me. The second mode, which is my personal favourite of the two is Genesis mode, where the officers are freely spread out, and each clan has a range of officers, and you start from an early point and move forward to take over Japan. The first is a more historically accurate version, Conquest mode, where you can choose a scenario from history, and battle out through those years, in this mode officers are correctly assigned to their clans, and you can use this to create your own army, sweeping through Japan. Though there are slight differences, as there are two modes to choose from You have at the start a handful of officers with a few troops each, showing your overall strength, you need to slowly take over other lands by fighting, levelling up your characters and in turn their number of troops, rinse and repeat. The empire games all follow similar patterns, here is your chosen lord, and clan, now go bash heads and slowly take over Japan. As with pretty much every iteration of Dynasty warriors has had their empires game, and now we have Samurai warriors 4’s instalment. But sometimes, whilst causing a national genocide I want to pretend that I am good at strategy games, and not play Total war shogun 2 and get destroyed, so I play Samurai warriors 4 Empires instead.įinally, the next instalment of Samurai warriors is out, and isn’t anywhere near as disappointing as the confusingly titled Samurai warriors 4-2, this time you actually have new features and a mode worth your money. Sometimes I don’t want a complicated game, I just want hordes of enemies to destroy whilst mindlessly pressing some buttons, but still looks cool, and for that you have games like Dynasty warriors, Samurai warriors 4.

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