![]() It's something that you can learn to live with, but with a release as big as a new Dynasty Warriors game, I would have expected the PC port team to have made a little more of an effort than small Japanese doujin circles. Consequently, button prompts in Japanese PC games are often more generic in nature to reflect the wider variety of controllers available. This latter aspect, while disappointing, is actually not all that unusual to see in a Japanese-developed PC game since Microsoft's Xbox platforms have historically failed to penetrate Japan in any meaningful manner, that means PC gamers in that region don't think of the Xbox 360 controller as the "standard" PC gaming controller in the same way as we do in the West. Others disliked the fact that despite the game supporting gamepads as a control scheme, button prompts refer either to the keyboard or symbols depicting what the button does rather than which button it actually is. Some players - particularly those on Windows 8 - have had issues with the game crashing or failing to load certain modes. The PC port, however, has attracted a certain degree of negativity for a few reasons, most notably a lack of polish. Hack, slash, chop, chop, chop, teeheehee! In short, yes Dynasty Warriors 8 is a good time. Counter in the bottom-right corner of the screen rattling ever-upwards. I was hammering the attack buttons, experimenting with new combinations of the standard and strong attacks to unleash special moves, and I was deliberately wading into as large a horde of enemies as possible before setting off the ridiculous "Musou" moves, all for the satisfaction of seeing that little K.O. Within a matter of minutes of starting up the new game, I was joyfully sending hundreds of enemies flying at a time, hacking and slashing my way towards the enemy general in the hope of quickly finishing the battle. I was particularly interested in seeing how the PC version that hit Steam this week stacked up to its predecessors, particularly since the series has recently made the jump to next-gen with the PlayStation 4 version. It's been a number of years since I last played a Dynasty Warriors game, and I figured the release of the latest installment - the overdramatically named Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends Complete Edition - would be a good opportunity to jump back on board and see what was up. That and its hilariously awful voice acting and ridiculously anachronistic rock music soundtrack. It was particularly popular with my friends and I for its seeming simplicity - button-mashing hack-and-slash funtimes - and for its split-screen cooperative mode, in which two players could fight through the game's large-scale battles together. ![]() One of these games was one of the PS2-era Dynasty Warriors titles - I forget which one, exactly, as I've played several over the years and frankly they're all a bit of a blur. There were several games I played absolutely to death when I was at university, and it was no coincidence that they were games that were great to play with friends, often when returning home from an evening of imbibing intoxicating beverages. ![]()
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