Interestingly, you’re now able to swap Sacred Treasures out with other characters, allowing you to customize them even further, making for some unique combinations and strengthening your play style. These add more missions and ways to grind and level your characters. Newly added are Infinity and Challenge modes as well. All of these characters are quite significant, so it’s great to see them finally included in Ultimate.Īs noted above, you’ll get a new chapter that takes place after the original ending, expanding upon events and adding sub-scenarios to flesh out the story even further.
First off, there’s a handful of new noteworthy characters to choose from: Gaia, Yang Jian, Achilles, Hades, Joan of Arc, and the one that had me most excited, Ryu Hayabusa. Turns out, quite a lot has been added in the Ultimate edition. So if you’ve played WARRIORS OROCHI 4 already, you’re probably wondering if upgrading to the Ultimate Edition (purchasable separately for original owners) is worth it and what’s actually included. Given some more background and expanding on events that happened in the base game is a welcome bonus, but every story mission is going to be the same flow of running around, killing enemies and waiting for doors to open as characters talk to one another. Luckily this is remedied, but it’s still a slog to get through the campaign’s first couple chapters even if you’re trying to be quick about it. This Ultimate edition adds a whole new chapter that takes place at the end of the regular WARRIORS OROCHI 4, which many fans felt like the original ending fell flat. Maybe it’s the massive amount of characters that I found confusing, or that much of the story is given through dialogue before, after and during gameplay, but I just found it hard to follow who was who and most importantly, why. While there are some quick tooltips that explain events of the previous game, there’s little done to catch you up on what’s happened thus far in the series. Warriors games tend to have a grand story, and while there’s a lot of dialogue, they’ve never been able to hook me, this title included. With nearly 200 characters to choose from, all of which are unique in their own fighting styles and attacks, there’s a ton of content within to keep you busy for quite some time as long as you can deal with the monotony and repetitiveness of the mission structure that doesn’t seem to have changed all that much in the past decade. WARRIORS OROCHI 4 Ultimate does this and more. What you usually look for in a Warriors game is killing near endless enemies with just a few simple button presses. With the new release of WARRIORS OROCHI 4 Ultimate, I was curious to see just how much the core gameplay has changed and evolved since the last time I picked up a Musou title.
While I’ve played a handful of them over the years, none of them really gathered my attention long term, as I found the gameplay to be quite repetitive and basic. They’ve been around for about two decades and have more than a dozen different iterations and sequels over the years, so they’ve clearly gathered a following over all that time. The best known Musou games are most likely the Dynasty Warriors series. It’s not going to challenge you with puzzles or have an engaging narrative, but it’s mindless fun. A Musou game is one where you’re put into an open map and simply need to hack and slash your way through hundreds of enemies.