Enemies can get tougher to defeat on higher difficulty. The ally AI is generally competent in helping you drop enemies but don’t rely on them too much. It can get pretty daunting but it’s not called Challenge mode for nothing. Scores and kills are racked up onto the online leaderboard. For example, playing as Cao Cao in the earlier stages saw myself having to defeat my own allies and eventually a copy of myself while fighting alongside the enemy that I defeated during an earlier stage.Ĭhallenge mode tests the player’s abilities through its sub-modes, like defeating as many enemies as they can or defeating stronger enemies in an endurance course. This can be confusing for players without the original game, as it overrides the actual character involved in the current plot. Unlike the original Story mode, players can control of any of the game’s characters and the ability to switch to anyone else outside of battle.
There are better challenges and rewards when you ramp up the difficulty from “Beginner” to “Nightmare”. Fulfiling the ultimate objective of the level ends the battle. Defeating these soldiers will build your Musou gauge and prime you for a more devastating special attack, which you can then use to knock down your stronger “named” opponents, which you will need to do to progress in some stages. Your screen can be plagued with over 50-70 soldiers at any one time and are usually there for you to mow down like grass with your mighty sword.
There are also classic levels from previous Dynasty Warriors titles remade for DW7.įor the most part, the battle is essentially the same, and the controls are pretty straightforward. Once on the battlefield, players are given tasks to fulfil, such as the protection of an Emperor on the move or the requirement to defeat a certain warlord. Legend mode puts players in charge of a desolate village and must complete the various battles in order to win the hearts of the villagers back to the village. It doesn’t contain the original modes included in the Dynasty Warriors 7 base game, such as Story and Conquest, but instead, adds two new modes to play with, namely Legend Mode and Challenge Mode.
Its seventh incarnation saw new special attacks, in-battle character and weapons customisation as well as the addition of the Jin kingdom.ĭynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends is the standalone expansion to the Western release of Shin Sangoku Musou 6. To those unfamiliar to the franchise, Dynasty Warriors is a hack-and-slash game that takes its story from the historic battles of Ancient China. I somehow don’t see ancient Chinese history and a story-driven hack-and-slash adventure play well, but its popularity on the Japanese market can’t be wrong, right? Dynasty Warriors is an intriguing videogame series.
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