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While it was once one of the most popular and well received series in gaming, Dynasty Warriors seems to receive more and more negative feedback with each iteration. This is not due to radical shifts in gameplay and/or tone—as many game sequels are accused of doing—but rather the exact opposite: Negative comments center around Tecmo Koei's insistence to stick to the formula that made it a well-known franchise. I'm not so sure, though, that this hate from gamers is justified.

It's true there are certain things you can expect from a Dynasty Warriors title—namely slaughtering thousands of enemies in hand-to-hand combat. The gameplay cycle of Dynasty Warriors has been the same for over a decade: 1) lead your armies to a contested area, 2) kill "generals" in that immediate area to scatter their armies, and 3) repeat until no enemies remain. And of course, as the battle system and progression arc are the series' core game mechanics, all Dynasty Warriors titles play basically the same. So what changes if not the gameplay?

The answer is "the setting." While the series often returns to its roots in the Chinese epic "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" the Dynasty Warriors formula has spread to other historical settings as well. Feudal Japan, Ancient Greece, and even the European Hundred Years War have been visited at least once.

Moreover, this core gameplay has proven suitable for fictional worlds, as the most popular Dynasty Warriors games in recent memory have been adaptations of some of Japan's most famous anime. Whether it's giant robots, a man fighting across a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or a band of pirates adventuring across the seven seas, the Dynasty Warriors formula has been well suited to the task.

So perhaps it is time to stop looking at Dynasty Warriors as a series that has gone stale and more as the epitome of a genre. While many great games from Bayonetta to God of War have been listed as part of the hack-and-slash genre, no game more denotes the idea of what it means to be hack-and-slash than Dynasty Warriors.

And while it's perfectly acceptable to find hack-and-slash titles unappealing as a whole, criticizing Dynasty Warriors for just staying true to its hack-and-slash roots is like complaining that the Street Fighter series continues to be only about people punching and kicking each other in one-on-one fights. Dynasty Warriors should be judged by what kind of game it is aiming to be and whether it succeeds at that goal, not on some abstract concept of what a good game should be or the way in which video games should evolve.

Source: http://kotaku.com/5891755/defending-the-game-people-hate

What is your DW soundtrack? Sometimes, when I play DW, I'll turn off the background music and play my own by plugging my ipod into the surround sound system. When I start a level or an awesome Musou, one of my favorite songs that gets me ramped up is Party Hard by Andrew WK. Does anyone else do this? :)

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TECMO KOEI America and Europe have confirmed that Warriors Orochi 3 will be released in their respective regions. This game will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and the release dates are March 20th 2012 in North America and March 30th 2012 in Europe.

One thing to note about this overseas release is that it will only have Japanese voices with English subtitles, possibly because adding English voices would have delayed the game much further and costed more due to its tremendous volume with more than 130 characters to interact with.

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KOEI Warriors, thanks to forum member Mei Ling, has been able to get in contact with two recording voice actors who voice characters for TECMO KOEI's products. Karen Strassman, the voice of Okuni from Samurai Warriors 3, as well as Tara Platt who has recorded the English voices of Mori Ranmaru and Oichi in Samurai Warriors 3, as well as Wang Yuanji in Dynasty Warriors 7.

KOEI Warriors would like your help to gather suitable and interesting questions for these voice actors. Please visit the below link and post your questions in the topic which the best then will be sent to them to answer and collected for us to show the interview.

 Discuss Interview with Karen Strassman and Tara Platt on the KOEI Warriors Forum now...

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  Is there a way for fans to convince Koei to release their games for the US and UK? Are there any petitions, polls, anything in the forums, or maybe some way to contact Koei directly? Anyone know of a way? I'm not the type to buy imported games, mod my system to play them or anything like that. Share your info and methods please. I want Koei to see that there is a strong market for the games outside of Japan. Maybe that will get the games over here.