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Refined Combat
Focused Narrative
Repetitive Missions
Dynasty Warriors: Origins reinvigorates the long‑running musou franchise with refined combat, expansive battles, and a more focused narrative approach that critics say make it one of the series’ most rewarding entries.
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS - Overview Trailer
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS - Announcement Trailer
Omega Force hamstrings its finest Warriors yet by going all-in on its soulless original character.
A welcome refresh of a hack-and-slash mainstay that mostly impresses, despite a few glaring pacing problems.
Simple, sleek, and endlessly rewarding, Dynasty Warriors Origins is a huge improvement over previous entries, and the best musuo game of the decade.
Dynasty Warriors: Origins doesn’t just have the largest amount of enemies the series has thrown on screen at once, it also deepens its combat, improves its storytelling, and provides a healthy amount of replayability.
A mostly bland story and a lack of additional playable characters are the major faults with Dynasty Warriors: Origins. It is the most polished, mechanically rewarding, and technically impressive game in the series so far, and an easy pickup for fans of the franchise, provided they're open to new ideas like the parry system and original, single lead.
I think Dynasty Warriors: Origins – with its focus on Ziluan as a character, and focused on telling a more complete RPG-like story – does a tremendous job, and focusing on those elements really helps that come to the fore.
Dynasty Warriors: Origins evolves the long-running series, meshing its hack-and-slash core with an action-oriented slant that enhances its extravagant 14th-century warfare.
This is not only a great Dynasty Warriors game, but also a nice chance for historically-curious folks to hop on board.
