Samurai Warriors 5 Review - The Final Verdict
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2021
- Samurai Warriors 5 makes the series stand out from Koei’s other games and updates the musou formula in smart ways, but unfortunately cuts too much of what worked in the past to make it universally recommendable to hardcore fans.
- Hry
Its nice that Nobunaga isnt Cao Cao's long lost twin brother anymore
i always felt like i was the only one who noticed that that's the same ass man
They make a joke about that in warriors orochi 3
But sad to see that his dark humor and charm is gone.
Personal opinion but I think Cao Cao is way cooler
I saw some screenshot, these footage are from the beginning chapters, and he'll age progressively throughout the storyline like Yukimura. Don't worry, he'll grown in to Cao Cao's long lost twin brother in later chapters.
@@mojtecool9703 dude..... He's younger.....
When Koei releases Warriors Orochi 5.
Dynasty Warrior Characters : Who the hell are you guys?
😂😭
"I have this strange feeling we've met before"
you do know dw is most likely gonna get redesigned as well
@@knightdude5092 yeah, also hoping that DW gets the same treatment as SW. Although, unless Koei announces DW10 we still won't know if they're going for a redesign or not.
@@zekkenalter6013 they already tried with DW6 and it failed miserably.
Mousu series is the comforting blanket of gaming.
So far I like it. What he doesn't mention in the review, while it does focus on Nobunaga and Mitsuhide, the game features parts of their story that the previous Samurai Warriors titles completely skipped over. Like Nobunaga's time as the Great Fool of Owari when he had a tendency of just throwing himself into battle with zero regard for tactics or diplomacy, and was considered a stepping stone for the Imagawa. And Mitsuhide's time as a retainer of the Saitoh Clan. Also as a bonus we get Yasuke, the African Samurai under the Oda.
Now thats cool
One thing that really puts me off from these otherwise fun games, is how floaty the enemies are. You just juggle them around and it doesn't feel very satisfying.
In this day and age its hard to find a game that has made me feel like samuari warriors 5 has ......its fun plan and simple fun and im loving it
The story part being trimmed down and focused on certain characters reminds me of the Spirit Of Sanada game, which is easily my favorite Samurai Warriors game (even if it's not one of the main series) so this just seems like a complete win from all angles to me. Yes, having a ton of characters and a vast storyline is awesome, but when you have too many characters and cover too much time, it just makes you feel disconnected from the game and like "oh, another Samurai Warriors game, cool" without getting invested.
4 kinda suffered for that. Due to the large amount of characters they had to tell Clan wide stories and in those scenarios alot of characters got over looked. It also didn't help that alot of the clan stories where 2 to 3 battles long.
Actually surprised how good it is..I feel like I’m playing an older warriors game which isn’t a bad thing! The graphics are great. It doesn’t lag at all and runs smooth. Hope DW10 learns from this.
The ai is still shit. Why do people encourage this mediocrity. Fix the dam ai and maybe people will be interested in whatever the frick DW10 turns out to be.
A small correction, but Strikers was also Koei Tecmo.
Great catch.
Yes thought this. Seemed like an odd argument.
I miss when these games at the beginning of the franchise were actual fighting games and didn’t give the characters moves that are so unbelievably unreal lol like they’re all flying around or making lighting shoot out of them during each combo. Absolutely zero immersion
Being that I know how this company works...I'll wait for the extreme updated version that has more modes and characters. Just a feeling that will happen
I think that will actually all be DLC this year.
As a huge musou fan this game is really fun. Yes less characters and cloned movesets but want we have is good. Some of the characters in the older samurai warriors felt outdated and I feel every moveset is fun in this game. I think a few more characters would have been good as there are some missing which seem like they should be there. Looking at you Masayuki and Ranmaru.
Masayuki was never relevant in the Oda story. His battles were mostly against Tokugawa.
You see it with Shingen here. To the Oda, Shingen never mattered in the slightest, let alone Katsuyori, much less so Masayuki. They had to make up an excuse to put him in Nagashino.
Thats where you are wrong. Modern musou games wont be conplete without multiple dlc's to buy and the missing characters are the perfect dlc
Mister I think you should know koei tecmo almost doesn't give a fuck about importance and lifespan of characters in this game they all fucking saved it for nobunaga's ambition game :))))))
Also, some characters dont have unique movesets, which is kind of a bummer.
Cloned movesets with this kind of game made sense for me when the roster was huge but with a much smaller roster, I feel like at most there shouldn't be clones anymore.
SW 2 is still best and always has best models and animations🙂
Damn right. It's just that simple.
I disagree.
Love SW2 but compared to 5 it looks like shit
Nah 4 Empires has the best looking models. Don't fool yourself.
Edit Mode in SW2 Empires was trash tho.( but that was it's debut, so I'll let it pass )
AKA Samurai Warriors: Nobunaga's Ambition.
That would be a good title.
Man this looks cool can’t wait to get it I’m a huge fan of the samurai warriors franchise
Same! I'm glad that they ( KOEI) changed the entire series around.
Persona 5 strikers was developped by Koei Tecmo, the opening bits of the video already kills this review's credibility by not knowing even that fact
probably wasn't in the script he was paid to read...
Is this castle mode scenes sdjusted to Behavior of mainlord? dojo mode0
can anyone tell me if the season pass lowers the price of dlc or gives you the dlc "free"
Lowers the price. It gives you all the future DLC, which I think is a value between 40 to 70 bucks for about 20.
Is this a better entry point to musou games than dynasty warriors 8?
No. Samurai Warriors 4 is.
I don't know why the video felt the need to mention Fate for the R1 chorded moves. Samurai Warriors 2 had a limited version with only two specials keyed to R1, having four actions keyed to R1 has shown up in a number of different Warriors games in recent years (Persona 5 Strikers, Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, Fire Emblem Warriors, Dynasty Warriors 9, etc), and OPPW4 let the player pick which specials/musous (out of around 7-10 available per character) to assign to four available slots.
I miss Warriors 2 😭
I'm having a blast hopping mode to mode and playing around with different characters. Rather gave smaller cast if we have combat that is way deeper. Citadel is fun. It's one of my fav. Most warrior games have their main mode and endgame which are the 2 game modes I love. Warriors 5 has 2 great modes which I'll take over 4 mediocre any day of the week. Wish there was a bit more content but quality over quantity
I still remember back in the days, I played hours by hours just to get to unlock legendary weapons of every characters in SW2
Koei has always either taken 1 step forward and 5 steps back or taken 2 steps sideways. This is 1 step sideways.
that lock feature on officer is like playing a sekiro or nioh specially on nightmare difficulty. nobunaga can literally can kill you with 3 to 5 hits T_T
While it might seem like they borrowed the idea of using extra abilities with R1 + face buttons, my favorite Empires game had it back in DW6E. The only difference was it was bound to the weapon via the crafting system. Fate/Extella Link was just more recent.
The R1 skills have always been apart of Samirai Warriors.
Looks like I'm going pick this up on ps4 and switch.
Honestly I don't think it can really get any better than the styles and stories from samurai warriors Two. I played the trial for 5 and had trouble telling each character apart while on the field. I miss the visual flair from the second. Now in 5 everything kinda just blends together. it feels like its just been tightening game play at the cost of uniqueness and enjoyment over the years. Not gonna spend to get the full and will just replay 2
If they allowed and released the old SW games on steam and consoles they would find a market for them
Bro koei had and ultimate skills mechanic in pirate warriors so how was it borrowed ?
Some neat ones indeed.
I was really excited for this game, but no character creation or chronicle mode is a dealbreaker for me, those were my favorite aspects of the last game.
Bro you have to wait for empires
Does it have English dub? Because I can't fucking read what they say when I'm in a fucking boss battle or fighting anyone because it becomes background noise in the heat of battle.
It's pretty lazy of them to not add english voices too, it's not like it's insanely dialogue heavy.
@@jeeroylenkins3081 what sucks is that they wasted money on shit voices for Dynasty Warriors 9....
Was disappointing to be honest. i miss SW2.
He comes *Samurai Warriors 5 XL Legends!!*
Can folks please stop acting like character cloning is a fuckin good thing god damn!!!?? I’m tired of them ruining these games with this shit that switch weapons between character shit is not sweet
@GamingBolt The R1+Button moves are NOT stolen from a different series. The Dynasty Warriors Empires series has had these for a while now.
Actually I think they started from Samurai Warriors 2. But either way yeah there was definitely no stealing of ideas here. This is just an uninformed cash grab of a review
Not only that, even if it was stolen, wich it isn't, so what? They have stolen from this series first. At that point its just mutual inspiration lol.
This game is really good. Compared to Dynasty Warriors 9 ( which was awful and let loyal warriors fans down so badly) it is far superior 😎👍
Ill wait for a sale. I have to many other games to finish lol hell maybe by then they'll make a 5 empires or 5-2 or definitive version that normally comes a few months after.
Game looks awesome but yeah best to wait for sale
Like the new animation but seriusly i hate clone weapon. Average 3 character use same weapon. Moveset not change so much. Sad this game has potential. I wish they can make each character own weapon or if same weapon make it different moveset
I'll wait till they make a samurai warriors 5 empires. If they make it.
I like the change for Oda. He was basically a Japanese Cao Cao the previous games
But is there an English-dub option?
No. They gave up on that after 3.
Koei essentially doing a safe bet for Samurai Warriors series on the English Dub since SW3. Remember how chaotic the English Dub version of DW9 was?
@@marozasulaiman379 Yeah, I have a not-so-fond memory of that. lol
@@marianofernandez6470 Well that sucks because it’s not an impossible feat if you find the right talent.
@@BrandonRalstonUSA KOEI's only good English dub was in the Dynasty Warriors series (up until 8, let's forget about 9) and Samurai Warriors 2.
Played the demo, still doesn't measure up to Sengoku Basara.
None of the warriors games ever will imo
Wish Capcom would release their latest to the west
I actually think this game surpassed the series. This game essentially killed my love for the franchise
Least it's not Yaoi.
@@marianofernandez6470 wdym by “yaoi”? Sengoku Basara isn’t a yaoi game?
I miss the body guard days
Replaying this didn’t beat it the first time all the way I say 7.5/10!!. Only things missing to me are the head of the Amago clan playable we needed another Takeda son or general maybe could have had another Imagawa general another Shogun retainer maybe another playable Saika mercenarie maybe Goemon another Usegi general playable could have added another female character 4 is light maybe another Koga ninja 🥷. Maybe added in the head of the Azai & Asakura clans maybe added in a 2nd Saito clan general besides his son!!. And maybe could have had 3-4 more different weapons??.
I just miss chronicle mode
Bro we get Yasuke the African samurai who served nobunaga. Netflix even made a show based off him
Not playing any game without Musashi in it.
dunno....I really tried to give it my 100%, just doesnt fill my itch....maybe its because i enjoyed how the chars looked be4(the art style) its cool theyre going backwards, would have been cooler to do what the sanada game sorta did......same style.....
Reason I would keep going back to the warriors games is to see my favorite characters back in a game, look a tiny bit different, like how Ive been growing and changing with it...its jus weird to have it change so drastically.
in my own opinion, I didnt like the art style, it feels generic....imo, its like its following a certain type of gamer....the newer gen....the kids....maybe the realism is old school....and they wanna do something more flashy and colorful. going anime/manga just feels off putting. I like that genre as the next otaku....like that basara game they had before was fun....but it was of a different title....same names....different line....maybe if they didnt use the name?
....hear me out, maybe what would have fixed the itch for old fans that think the same way I do, is just add a character creator(a really good one-with good content)....I get ur following mostly on nobunaga, not that hard to have a side char following.
Much better review than I*N
Agreed!
i want Basara
If I get only one samurai game I’ll get Ghost of Tsushima directors cut! But if I get 2 I’ll also get this
Why not get boyh
you forgot nioh lol
Imho
- All musou characters looks all the same
Only two char, hanbei and hanzo for me feel original, the rest look the same
- very few characters choice (i know they Will add more characters via season pass/battle pass like other games)
- This game so expensive
*Sry for bad english
No conquest mode is no buy mode
Conquest is only in Enpires
That's kinda disappointing. But I'll give it a try.
Samurai Warriors 1 and 2 were a lot better just this was just a disappointment Nobunaga ambition series and kessen 3 what are so better than this
35 sec without commentary feels awkward
bring back sugoroku
Persona 5 Strikes was done by Atlus and Koei.
Why do Oichi always get children toys as weapons...what's next a 🍡 as a weapon
I am a huge musou games fan take my opinion with a grain of salt since I am basing it on the demo alone
The good: music, stages, story and of course the much needed redesigns (some of the old characters looked awful)
The bad: apart from the cloned movesets the main issue is that the new movesets are really dull compared to the previous SW4II. Now everyone seems to be a boring spearman. I do hope they use SW5 as a basis and release some Xtreme Legends or II version where they would add more modes and declone movesets.
Quite disappointed in this game, FUN, but still disappointed
When KOEI first turned their gaze to this entry, they asked fans for input on what direction to take. After seeing entry after entry weakened by dime a dozen characters, it was great to see many of my suggestions heeded. We may have had to sacrifice a certain amount to get here, but I expect they can fill in those areas in an XL entry or even SW6.
Or DLC scenarios revolving around the other 2 Unifiers.
@@supersasukemaniac sw6 is confirmed to be about Hideyoshi lol
Even the weapons are not unique to a single character. Although each character has few 'unique moves' with one weapon. (Sign of lazy game developers?) That for me, takes away "a part" of what makes SW enjoyable. And the number of characters available for playing is less without any stories highlighting them as unique individuals. Furthermore, KOTARO FUMA is no longer available and HANZO somehow got older???
I FOUND the Japanese art style graphic ATTRACTIVE. However, I think the developers created this game in a hurry.
I'm not a big fan of nobungas gameplay
I enjoy this game😀👍
No Sanada 😪
You've been the star of most of the other games (Toshiie in 2 XL and Naomasa in 4-II are the only exceptions) and had a game solely about yourself and your family, don't be greedy.
@@marianofernandez6470 😂😂😂
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I use to love the samurai warriors and dynasty warriors franchise.
2 major things align with some others ruined these games for me.
1. Need to babysit your allies or elseyour whole army gets killed by a captain and a few privates.
2. Made the characters look to anime and k-pop
I've played every single Warriors title over the last 20 years. Despite the overhaul, I wanted to like SW5, but it's insultingly bad, and I recommend SW4 instead.
They've reduced the roster by 18, AND ditched the character creator.
Movesets are limited, mostly uninspired and boring, though a few are still fun, like the Bow, and movesets are cloned to multiple characters, further reducing individuality of the characters, and providing fewer reasons to pick one over another, aside from aesthetic.
Progression is snail-paced; unlocking characters, facilities, and facility mechanics is slow and arduous.
Replayability is low. Citadel is 5 minute crumbs of tower defense adjacent skirmishes, and the fun is very limited, and wears off quickly, especially since the primary reason for doing it is accumulating upgrade materials for your facilities, ie Dojo, Blacksmith, Shop, and Stables; and secondarily for maxing character bonds to view largely uninteresting cutscenes.
I can understand changing the art style, to further differentiate it from DW, and the Ultimate Skill idea is kind of interesting, but definitely flawed, and I'm glad Yasuke is finally in the game, as well as a few others, though Ranmaru's exclusion is bewildering, as is Hanzo's appearance, as he was quite young when he joined a similarly young Ieyasu, meanwhile Sandayu appears younger than he ought to.
The narrower focus on Nobunaga and Mitsuhide's stories is interesting, as we get to play many battles we haven't played before, but I think this works best if they're planning a part two that explores Hideyoshi, Mitsunari, and Ieyasu's stories, followed by an expanded Empires game.
In my opinion, this is, overall, tied with SW3 for the worst entry in the franchise, and as a long time fan, I'm very disappointed. SW4 is great, imperfect, sure, but it's a great Musou game, then they followed it up with the subpar SW4 Empires, which was a narrow and boring game compared to the far more advanced and satisfying Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires; then they inexplicably gave us SW4-II, instead of simply updating SW4, and now this, SW5, which in my opinion, ranks among the worst Musou games so far, along with SW3, DW6, and DW9.
I DO NOT recommend it, in fact, I recommend avoiding it.
I don't enjoy talking bad about games, but this is my honest analysis and opinion, as a longtime fan of the Musou games.
1. it’s 37 characters (39 if you include mature Nobunaga and mitsuhide).
2. wdym limited? Sw5 is the least limited game when it comes to movesets.
3. It’s not, the progression is just about the same as the other games lmao.
4. It’s not, not only are there lots of objectives to get, there are also rare weapons to unlock too. As for citadel mode, Same could be said with every other side modes in samurai warriors lmao.
Most of what you said is either untrue or you didn’t continue playing the game lol.
@@jeremydean1718 Yes, and that's 18 fewer than in 4, plus they ditched character creation.
Is this a joke? It literally has fewer movesets than 2, 3, and 4, and 4 has more than double the number of movesets... you're clearly not serious.
Nah, you clearly haven't played the other titles, because progression was a lot faster and easier in 4, and far more satisfying. It was also better in 2.
Citadel is the second most pathetic game mode I've ever seen, it's puny, and it's bs that it's tied to progression.
Have you even played the game?
You damn sure haven't played the others.
@@moriconvallaria1279
1. Yeah, so what? Sw5 still has more characters than most sw games lol. Also, sw2 ditched character creation as well.
2. I know. However, the team made alot more movesets than all of those games besides sw1. All they did is just reused the old movesets from previous games.
3. I did actually and it’s not that easier than other games. There are some games that are faster yes, but that’s about it lol. As for the satisfaction, sw5 did a lot better imo
4. You’re right, but you should also include the other side modes as well. All of them are pure garbage.
@@jeremydean1718 Oh, I see, you're arguing for the sake of arguing. Goodbye.
@@moriconvallaria1279 not really? I’m just trying to have a conversation with you, You’re the one that came into that conclusion lol. Sorry for trying to have a conversation about sw5 I guess
Anyway, I want to speak more about the movesets. I’m sorry, but samurai warriors clearly needed this change (besides the clones, but it is what it is). The sw team always keep reusing the movesets and it’s really getting annoying, I consider that to be lazy because to me they don’t really have any more ideas to change them (same goes to the Orochi series while I’m at it, those games are just boring).
i skipping this one.
Have fun you all
Nope noway it's a pass for me.
What they did to Nô and Shingen is unforgivable.
By the way: They threw history out the window. It's a big part of the story that Nô gets killed in Kanegasaki (that's what triggers Nobunaga's change from Keiji Maeda wannabe to the Demon King we know).
She didn't die until Honnôji, and some say she lived even after that.
And another thing. Shingen died before Nagashino. They just added him because of Shingen vs. Ieyasu at Mikatagahara, but he was never relevant to the Nobunaga story, and in the Nagashino stage, he's shoe-horned in as a "kage-musha", just for the sake of having Shingen vs. Nobunaga.
Oh, and also Katsuie Shibata. They made him downright unlikable.
Ok so what? It’s not a bad thing anyway. No was completely useless outside of sw1, she kinda needed this change. As for Shingen, it’s just subjective, I personally think he’s better here
@@jeremydean1718 She's useless here too. That's the worst part of all. They traded a psychotic vamp for a stereotypical cold, aloof girl.
And if you want one of the greater daimyô of the Sengoku Jidai be made into a worthless figurehead, then that's on you. There's a reason why Shingen Takeda has his own day in Japan.
The only characters that actually benefited from this game are Yoshimoto and Toshiie, and the latter got forgotten about at the end to shoe-horn in Yasuke (who only appears for three episodes in the final chapter).
@@marianofernandez6470 not really? She actually has Importance to the plot, that’s smth the old no doesn’t have outside of sw1
@@jeremydean1718 Her only importance to the plot is dying before her historical death. You consider that an improvement?
@@marianofernandez6470
first of all, nobody actually knows how no died historically, there are only theories here and there.
Second of all, her death actually does have importance than all of what sw2-4 no did combined. Her death is the catalyst of Nobunaga turning into his demon king persona. So yes, sw5’s no is an improvement
The cloning is inexcusable. DW8 has 82 unique characters, not just charge attacks. Koei has just turned into a DLC-season pass, lazy company. If they put time in to every character to feel unique this would have been much better.
One problem, Char. The dlc has no old weapons or new characters. It’s just new scenarios and weapon skins.
I mean, the team made 15 movesets completely from the ground up and it’s more than what team made over the years. And dw8 is not a good comparison because it uses dw6-7 movesets. Plus, some of the new weapons have reused moveset as well lol
@@jeremydean1718 The Katana is the same moveset we've seen from the very first Samurai Warriors.
I liked you better as Quattro (even though Kamille is a literal idiot), but you're mostly right.
KOEI, however, has always been a DLC-season pass lazy company. They've always been since the PS3 and 360, and the only reason they couldn't do it before was that DLC didn't exist (that's how we got the Xtreme Legends games).
@@marianofernandez6470 it was taken as inspiration for the katana moveset. And besides, what’s the problem with that anyway?
It’s so prettyyyy
Clones ruined the game. Out of 27 characters 4 are unique if they all get uncloned then buy the game. Until then don't pay full price at all.
Exactly
I'm disappointed as shit, I paid full price. They got me this time.
@@FantasmaEspada after dynasty warriors 9 clone army I wasn't about to buy this until I could confirm if their were clones or not.
Really unfortunate to because I like the art style. But if I can't enjoy the roster what's the point.
Friendly reminder that just because sw5 have clones doesn’t mean it’s automatically ruined the game
I’ll stick to Sengoku Basara 4 Sumeragi….. Koei too lazy as always.
Its been 7 years , since it out .. so whos lazy ?
@@eWynHarun cause they don’t want to make the same game like these light weight games…. Keep playing these whack games kid.
@@eWynHarun and plus Sengoku Basara is perfect already son….
@@MusicWorldVNT im fan of both, but yukimura den is the newest also the worst basara you can get. In fact capcom is lazy ass, even they ONLY release the japanese ver. They just don't care about fans around the world
@@MusicWorldVNT If you like gay subtext, sure.
The best Samurai Warriors game is 4. Period.
Love the fact you tried to make your opinion as a fact lmfao.
@@jeremydean1718 Objectively true. More characters, more stories, a story for your own character (Chronicle Mode, which also gives Okuni, Musashi and Kojirô a reason to be in the game), no unnecessary deaths for the sake of drama.
@@marianofernandez6470 it’s not lmao. Your opinion on being sw4 is the best sw game is just that… an opinion, saying your opinion is objectively true is hilarious
@@jeremydean1718 But it is. Quite demonstrably so, in fact.
@@marianofernandez6470 just because sw4 has less content than sw5 doesn’t automatically make it better lmfao. Keep thinking your opinion is a fact, you clown
It looks really good and it’s certainly not the mistake that Dynasty Warriors 9 was. But I’m getting Dynasty Warriors 6 vibes. And that’s not good either. 🙁
Don't worry it's not like that at all, I'm only like 3 hours in and I can tell already it was money well spent.
@@LJAndrews1986 Thanks for the reply. 🙂👍
Spot on.
Aaah yes. Still waiting for the missing character dlc's that cost $8.99 each
I think it might be $10 for Musou modes revolving around the other 2 unifiers. Which would actually make the other characters super cheap.
Honestly looks like more of the same, dumb down AI but at least those action animation sequences look good!!
I’m on chapter 3 on the story and the ai is pretty aggressive and I play on normal
I'm really unsure on this game. It looks way too cartoonie compared to previous Dynasty or Samurai games
1st i guest
This game sucked imo
Is this a better entry point to musou games than dynasty warriors 8?
DW8 is still the best musou game to date
Sadly framerate is shit
@@DrifterMW That's true. But at least SW5 is a better game than DW9.