The gameplay, however, is similar to many types of Musou games. Throughout the story, you’ll unlock more tactical and combat training to implement to your battalions to eliminate quickly the enemy. In fact, each character that you deploy will cost a certain amount of money, and it is important to launch the just enough number of soldiers to avoid losing the battle, but also squeeze your “budget” so you can fund other battles. So many possibilities that it’s hard to list them all. Once on the battlefield, strategy is still a major requirement. The more you advance in the game, the more the choices and ways emerge on how to conquer your enemy, including being able to pay bribes or sabotage enemy defenses ahead of a conflict. Following this, you will be able to build additional extensions to your Daimyo, to double your strength, but also the extra amount of difficult gamble to take. Proper strategic choices will increase your trade, agriculture, military, or loyalty stats. Be careful though about choosing this pair, to avoid an internal conflict, on top of being qualified to occupy that position. Each room in the castle will be dedicated to a particular topic such as politics or economics, and you will start by naming your magistrates and choose two by post. Banners can be earned by defeating specific characters in battle and on top of decorating your castle, they grant secondary benefits. This is where a lot of the strategic menus emerge, but also some cosmetic alterations and change your banner. The first is Conquest, which we talked about, and the second one is called Genesis, a sort of free-mode where you will build your own Japanese feudal legend.īetween fights, Samurai Warriors 4 Empires brings you to your Japanese castle (called Daimyo). Much of the story will gradually unveil and be told though episodes in Samurai Warriors 4 Empires, as the game – as mentioned before – is more focused on strategy, managing your army and political rivalries between the known hack-and-slash fights. So Samurai Warriors 4 Empires offers us two main gaming mode. And to talk about warriors, would be also mentioning no less than 56 playable characters. While some specific feudal clans are highlighted more than other, with Samurai Warriors 4 Empires’ conquest mode (the main mode), the player can choose its own clan and embody great warriors of the time. This period is known in Japanese history due to the large-scale clan wars between the region’s feudal lords. Samurai Warriors 4 Empires takes place like its predecessor in the Sengoku era, during the 15th and 16th century. Samurai Warriors 4-II was essentially built around battles with more or less difficult missions and a story pretty well scripted. And so a little over a year after Samurai Warriors 4-II (which we reviewed), Samurai Warriors 4: Empires to land in the west (Sengoku Musou 4 Empires in Japan), thanks to Tecmo Koei and Omega Force. Is this title worth the buy? These two IPs have secondary episodes called “Empires”, which are focused on more strategy than the classical hack-and-slash action. On one side, you have the Dynasty Warriors saga which features historic moments of ancient China, and on the other we have Samurai Warriors, which came later on, and based on feudal Japan historical feats. There are so many titles and sequels of their licenses, and it becomes easy to get lost when you want to get one. Tecmo Koei is probably a publisher mostly know for their Musou games.
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