#(i will annoy people with warriors orochi)

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Warriors Orochi Headcanons and Stuff That Don't Make Sense to Me Now Ramble Bullshit Dump

things i wasn't able to put together coherently back when i played the games now strung together in a sleepy retrospect

For gods, everyone immortal/mythological/divine in WO is weirdly too weak AND FOR SOME REASON IT TAKES ANCIENT CHINESE/JAPANESE/OTHER WARRIORS TO MAKE A DENT IN THEIR PROBLEMS.

It really doesn't make sense for the Mystic Faction to seem so weak to the point they need humanity to fight for them. You're made up of Chinese and Japanese gods that have founded human civilization. With the Greek and Norse pantheons now becoming canon, they look even more weaker.

But even they seem weak with how Zeus gets betrayed by Ares, Ares fucks up things, Odin fucks up, Loki kills him, things get all fucked. Odin dies without much fanfare. But then again WO4 probably shouldn't be allowed to count, but I like the concepts it had however.

Sure, yeah, it's a game with the plot of "humanity is strong with its friendship and bonds", but I just think you shouldn't downplay the deities for their sake. But I'm basically asking for a WO game of only the original characters in there. Which I want. Please cut out the Warriors.

Ugggggh, though I headcanon that all the deities cannot use their full potential out of risking their already unstable realms. Which brings me to question: why is it unstable? Is it because of time fuckery they have to do to get their human fighters? Something something with Orochi I'm going to have to guess from what I remember of WO3 + Ultimate.

It would be interesting to explore how good and evil need each other to exist, maintaining ying and yang. Especially with the Asian pantheon characters with them covered in the symbols and all. Fine too deep for a Musou game.

I also want to know more??? about the WO deities and other original chars??? Why??? is there no ingame lore on them??? Besides the basic mythos, but WO could definitely give them little personalities and more bonds with each other. Why must it be about the humans? I mean, some interactions are interesting but man do I wish to know why does Taigong Wang look like a twink when he was a super old super smartass Chinese minister. Which brings me to:

Why do the deities even look like the way they are? Is this their weakened forms? Are they what they choose to look like? Well, I suppose all of them choose to look hot. Makes sense. I'd do too. It would be cool for them to have "true" forms. Or even partial transformations. Like an Arrancar from Bleach. Some part of them had to be sealed away so that they can keep the worlds stable.

Misc questions lightning round

For a human cast where 65% of the historical chars died of illness, they sure never asked the local GOD OF MEDICINE TO HELP THEM (Guo Huai??? Why aren't you cured when Shennong is right there??? Sure it might take time, but maybe if the WO power scaling weren't shit, he could just delete the illness)

Are??? Nuwa and Fuxi??? related in this world??? Or not??? I'm pretty sure whether or not if you confirmed them being siblings or not, it wouldn't matter because they are both gay (im kidding) (maybe not) (tbh all the deities ae a bit fruity)

Why does Kaguya know how to time travel? She's not a god of time. She's a moon princess from myth. I'd like to know the ingame lore about her power origins.

What is even the power scaling of WO? Fuxi is considered stronger than Nuwa, but then there's Susanoo and Yinglong who can compete with him. Where is Nuwa on this scale? She has to be at least his equal as, yk, his successor. Where would Shennong be on the scale too? Even if he's the medicine god, he has to be able to have equal power in his field if not for fighting. SHOULDN'T THEY BE WITHIN EACH OTHER'S LEVEL TO EVEN HAVE THEIR TITLES? Taigong??? Sun Wukong??? Daji??? What is their power????

Play Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate

[grimatactics]

Rant time!

This’ll be a long one, by the way.

One thing that does annoy me in both Awakening and Fates is characters that only have supports with one, usually the avatar, character.

Often because it doesn’t make any sense. And don’t get me started on how the adults and ‘kids’ can only support with those in their age group for the most part, excluding their parents and the avatar.

Like, in Awakening, all of the DLC characters only have supports with Robin. Anna has two but still counts, really.

When that doesn’t even make too much sense. I mean, it wouldn’t be too hard to think of who else they would get a support with.

Gangrel: Chrom, Aversa, Emmeryn, maybe Tharja Walhart: Say’ri, Yen’fay, Basilio and Flavia, and maybe Virion. Emmeryn: CHROM AND LISSA. The most fucking obvious thing do to. Also probably Lucina, Tiki, and Frederick. Yen’fay: Say’ri and Walhart. Maybe Lon’qu and Virion. Aversa: As mentioned, Gangrel, and probably Henry and Tharja. Maybe Chrom. Priam: ...Ok, this one is harder because the character doesn’t show up before the end game. But i can still think of some. Chrom, because both are descended from a legendary hero and have even inherited their blades. Vaike, thinking Priam would be a worthy opponent for him. Lon’qu, wanting to cross blades with him. Say’ri and Yen’fay, for the same reason as Lon’qu. Basilio and Flavia, both trying to recruit him as their champion. Maybe even someone like Miriel or Laurent, wanting to know more about the Radiant Hero. Anna: Gaius, because Anna can procure tough to get ingredients for his sweets. Libra, trying to warn her from her greed for gold. Olivia, thinking she can make a mint from charging people to see performances by her. Maybe even Panne and Yarne, trying to get secret taguel recipes that she can mass produce and sell.

See? It really is not that hard!

Even with Fates, let’s see if I can remember the characters who just have a support with the avatar... Or just a few supports.

I won’t be including the amiibo characters, by the way. While it would be nice to have supports with them, I would also be really annoyed because I hate when a game locks content like that behind amiibo and doesn’t even give like a DLC option to get the content instead.

Shura: Uh. Kaze, Saizo and Kagero would be good options. Ryoma could also work. On of the other side of the conflict, Niles would work. I’m also kinda leaning towrds Benny and Arthur for him, and maybe Elise. Reina: Uh, she works for the palace of Hoshido. Ryoma, Hinoka, Takumi... maybe not Sakura because of her taste for violence. Saizo, Kagero, Setsuna, Azama, Orochi, Hana, Subaki... there is a long fucking list of people she could have supported with. So why was it only Corrin? Who the fuck knows. I could also see her having a support with Gunter. Scarlet: Another wasted oppurtunity. Ryoma of course is an obvious one. Saizo and Kagero too, being Ryoma’s retainers. She could even have ‘frenemy’ supports with the Nohr royalty, her seeing them as part of the problem at first but gradually coming to see that they’re not like Garon. Gunter: Xander is a pretty obvious one. Flora is another. It is a bit harder for Gunter since he primarily just shows up as this game’s ‘Jagen’ character, but I still think there would be plenty who have heard stories about him and either want training or to test their mettle against him. Flora: Uh, Jabob? That’s a pretty obvious one. Nohr royalty who want to check up on how Corrin is doing. Yukimura: See Reina’s thing about working in the palace of Hoshido? That pretty much applies for Yukimura too. Izana: Royals of both countries, and possibly some of their retainers too. Fuga: He would be another good one to have a support with Gunter. Maybe also Hinata, and basically anyone who wants to become a good, strong warrior, like Rinkah. Anna: Kaden and Keaton, trying to find out secret recipes of their races to sell, Beruka, Charlotte and Izana.

See, it’s really not that hard to think of at least a few more characters to expand on these supports. And it is really annoying when they’re just given one support with the avatar and then maybe one other, they could have really fleshed out these characters. The problem was definitely worse in Fates, a lot of the characters I mentioned do not have much depth and that definitely could have been changed with some more supports. Hell, I had to look at a character list for Fates because characters like Yukimura and Shura are pretty forgettable.

I could go on and add some of the capturable enemies in Fates (Candace needs more attention because she’s actually pretty hot) but nyeh.

[ginnyzero]

Not All Powerful Female Characters are Warriors: Okami

Okami is a video game that I was exposed to back in college. (My friends were computer game majors.) And I was introduced to it by my roommate who had been following the development of the game for a long time. She adored the game since it featured a wolf as the lead. (For once, a reason for the silent lead to actually be silent! Woof!) We were both lovers of all things Japan and the game's art style was in Japanese ink painting. Which, if you know anything about gaming, 3D realistic was the way to go even back then. Clover studios tried it and didn't like the results. (To put this friend into perspective, she also loved SMT: Digital Devil Saga, the RPG where you play part demons that can eat enemies. Yes. EAT. But that was also based on Bhuddism and Hindu Mythology sooo..)

Okami was about Okami Amaterasu and her fight against the minions of Yame in order to cleanse and defend Nippon. The story line too many of the stories and legends of ancient Nippon (and before) and wove them into a cohesive story about Amaterasu and the people she was helping. The goal of the story was to earn praise of the locals by helping them, cleanse the land of cursed zone and solve logic puzzles, oh and fight monsters. Lots, and lots, and lots of monsters. As Amaterasu progressed through the game and overcame challenges or inspired the people of Nippon, she would regain her 13 powers of the brush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRYEFzAY8w

With the brush, you could 'draw' on the screen using your controller to do magic spells. These magic spells ranged from restoring/mending objects, growing plants, moving water/fire/lightning/ice, walking on walls and slowing down time. This was a really innovative style of game play at that time and inspired other games.

I always felt that Okami was a game that not only would appeal to boys (most game studio's target demo) because of the fights and the bosses, and also to girls because of well, the pretty graphics, the style of game play (at least the first half of it) and the multiple female characters. Though it's not for children. (Sake, bouncing boobs, and so on and so forth.)

Amaterasu, the silent wolf lead, is well, a female, based on the Japanese Goddess of the Sun, Amaterasu with her divine mirror and beads. (The third divine weapon was the sword, which also had significance to Amaterasu in Japanese Mythology.) There were also several major female characters throughout the game that were important, even if they weren't all warriors. Female characters don't have to be warriors to be strong characters and strong women.

Kushi's bravery to face Orochi and her sake brewing helped Amaterasu and Susano (a male warrior) defeat the 8 headed dragon. Himiko and Otohime were two Queens whose bravery, abilities and willingness to sacrifice themselves for a cause they believed in, helped find Oni Island and allowed Amaterasu to actually get there. (Otohime did this while pregnant too. Multiple props to her badassery.) There was a female villainess and despite the fact the game has been out for 10 years or so now, I don't want to spoil it for you! Just to say, that she is there and man does the game keep you guessing. Then Kai and Lika in the last arc are important in helping Amaterasu navigate the forest of confusion and keeping Nippon from turning into a frozen wasteland. Plus, there were other female characters that Amaterasu helped too, Princess Fuse, Moon Maiden Kaguya, the Sasa Sanctuary daughter and so on and so forth.

Yes, they were all supporting players. Without their help, and prayers, and belief, Amaterasu wouldn't have been able to succeed in her quest.

The end of the game in the fight against Yame (who was a big ball, sigh, what is it with the Japanese...) there was a large emotional pay out because of the structure of the game and all the work and help Amaterasu had provided to the people. (In order to level Ammy up, you had to get praise to increase health, ink pots for magic, lives and increase the money pouch.)

I was really sad and upset when Capcom closed Clover Studios in favor of making another Resident Evil rather than Okami 2 that they'd clearly set up in the end of the first game! Because, I wanted more cleansing, helping people and earning praise shenanigans.

That's the upside of Okami.

But there is a downside to the game. It's long. I mean, it's long. Don't start unless you've got 40 to 60 hours to put into it. There are a lot of side quests and a whole bunch of collectibles to find. And yeah, you need a lot of money in order to get some of the higher level magic spells and divine instruments and fighting techniques, so you will be doing a large amount of fishing and minion fighting.

And because it's long and because they spaced out getting the brush techniques. It's A) easy to forget the earlier techniques and when you need to use them. And B) the later techniques and even some of the middle techniques aren't explored to their full potential. Ice in particular and even Wind falls into this category.

The second half of the game also becomes less about restoring the land and more about dungeons and monster fighting which makes it less innovative and more like every other platformer game out there ever. In fact, the last third of the game, the Northern arc after Ninetails and before going into the Ark of Yamato, is mostly exposition. I mean lots of boring, repetitive, exposition, where they tell you the same things at least three times. The first 2/3 of the game, they spend that time having you "relive" the story and hand holding your way on what to do next in Sei-an City. (Kusa Village is also unmemorable despite being between Kamiki and Sei-an.) The last 1/3 of the game, forget hand holding (trying to figure out what to do next can be a bit of a chore and it's a bit jarring) and the tale of the Ark of Yamato gets told, over, and over, and over. ENOUGH ALREADY. I GET IT.

I mean, sure the stump city of the Poncles was great and going back in time was sort of fun? (Except this means you defeat Orochi 3 times in the game. And let me tell you, he's not that interesting of a boss.)

Thus, I tend to forget the second half of the game. It's annoying. It's boring. I dislike dungeons and racing clocks. I spend too much time facing bosses that I've already defeated. Can I please go back to clearing cursed zones and making cherry trees BLOOM?

Despite this, I do love the game. I think it had a lot of potential and really did break some boundaries of the way games were made and stories were told. It was also beautiful. Don't let the video fool you. The PS2 version wasn't that fuzzy. If it had been that fuzzy, it would have been unplayable.

They did make a digital HD download of Okami for PS3, which is too bad because I prefer hard copies of my games. (Just a quirk.) Otherwise, in order to play it again, I will have to open and set up my PS2. Fortunately, the let's play on Youtube reminded me why I won't be bothering anytime soon. (Even if I did yell at the screen a lot at the player.)

If you have the time for it, love Japanese legends and lore and enjoy platformers. I do recommend Okami.

[askroahmmythril]

For people who are trying to get to the end of fuseman's stage while avoiding the electrodes, the bounce balls can get rid of some of them. I know it really cripples the midboss. Also any advice on the impact brothers challenge? Man that one's annoying even with the coolant part

Yeah, I was kinda surprised to learn that about the electrodes.  As for the Impact Brothers challenge, I admittedly haven’t tried for it yet.  I’ve been busy mostly with Warriors Orochi 4 as far as gaming during my dental work stuff.

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Review: WARRIORS OROCHI 4 ULTIMATE Has Pretty Swords And Bland Targets

I’ll start this by being totally honest, Warriors Orochi Ultimate 4 is my first real play through of a Warriors Orochi game or even any hack and slash, musou style game. When I first popped it in, it felt like a boring and pointless button mashing game that let players feel all cool and powerful while slaughtering thousands of enemies with ease. However, as I played, I found myself wanting to play more and more to get better at combos, unlock more characters and level up my gang. This game may still be ultimately as shallow as your neighborhood pond, but it doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time skipping rocks and dipping your feet in the water.

The Story, Challenge and Battle Modes are available at the beginning, but without a wide selection of characters and the ones you have sitting at the most basic levels and abilities, Story Mode is really the only thing to do. I couldn’t find the story to be anything more than filler and bare-bone reasons to play against massive armies in obscure and generic places. This being said, the story has a lot more voice acting and actual conversation than I expected, even though it isn’t great. The story mode really is just a way to get levels, weapons, characters and play against increasingly difficult enemies that require increasingly more powerful characters. This loop is surprisingly entertaining, especially after a player finds a couple of officers that they particularly enjoy. 

With 170 characters/officers to play, the variety of battle styles are welcome, but at some times frustrating. Some characters have great rushing attacks, area attacks or powerful magical abilities. But other characters reach is barely farther than right in front of them and their combos don’t allow them to move, making that character feel absolutely pointless or annoying to play. Not every character can be amazing and I understand people have their own personal play styles, but I feel like a number of characters were just poorly designed. Moving past this complaint, the light, heavy, special and magical attacks do allow for a fun, variety set of moves. They get stale and very repetitive after a few minutes, but it could’ve been worse, and at least every character does have a pretty unique special attack with a few unique light or heavy attacks. I think a more smooth approach to combat and movement with more unique combos (maybe fewer characters as a sacrifice) would have been well worth it.

As for the rest of the game modes, they’re interesting but almost indistinguishable from the story mode. All that is different are some time limits, slightly different objectives, less talking and other (but similar) rewards. It would be great to have other modes with a much greater variety, like a random hero mode, giant or tiny enemies or mode arcade like modes. This isn’t a very serious game and I think it would benefit from a deeper dive into the ridiculous.

Another thing to point out about the game is that everything that isn’t an officer is terribly generic. The armies of enemies and allies are literally identical at times, thousands of them running at you and they are all EXACTLY THE SAME. The areas you run through are terribly bland and just generic geometry to hold enemies. With so many characters and ways to kill, it is too bad you feel like you're playing against training dummies in a wasteland of boring, average historical arenas.

I was happier with the combat than I expected and I was surprised with the uniqueness of the character’s fighting styles, even if the differences were small or just plain bad. This game has multiplayer, a few interesting challenges, leveling and weapons forging/upgrading, but they all feel like tacked-on pieces to make the game seem more fleshed out than it really is. But looking at the game as a whole, it is clearly made for those who enjoy these types of games and I am sure they will really get a lot of fun and quality hours out of this game, it does its job well. But any newcomers to the genre will have a hard time finding much here other than a few hours of fairly generic button mashing.

source https://geektyrant.com/news/review-warriors-orochi-4-ultimate-has-pretty-swords-and-bland-targets

[nikkidee]

the secret of the world

A commission for Pedro, who speaks French in a sea of bad-fic loving English speakers.

A carefully hand crafted summary of The Secret World, translated into Japanese, then into Italian, then back into English. Enjoy.

The French Version is here.

Ok, so how is the secret of the world, for these pesky monsters a group of dumbasses you're trying to hit them with a stick to finish a world or maybe something and the center of the earth in an avalanche of dirt? So, it is some random person just swallowed a bee during sleep with so you can go to sleep in the dirt monster fist fucking, you get super powers. You perverted capitalism, participated in the stoners exaggerated or imperialism of self-righteousness, they are forced to say what they want, maybe you will pay as you have 3 whole dollar.

    Not paid, your first job as an intern willing bee-based, is to go to the crappy town of New England is infested with zombies and zombie fish. The game is to roll long enough, so as not to be able to stop a name to drop in order to make sense of the old war between Wabanaki and Maya and the Viking I helped the Excalibur. Thus, the fish of zombies, dreamer when the drowning and the sword came to town again, citizens are trying to turn zombies Viking fish more fish, then, it is called into the sea, and died, after you have become a zombie, the total deaths impregnated and the zombie Viking has made them for the zombie fish. In addition, Loki, who end the world, anything so do not try sleeping there to stab the Rubik's cube in which what Gaia to keep the dream, but because it has a punch, he is total old girlfriend and stupid steals Excalibur, everyone does not see her boo HOO. OH the dreamer and I want to be to ensure that is located under the mountain, and the people is a mine has not, but I was still then someone was shot, then, the miners have been killed, it is a cluster full was still fucked. You have a story to the bird a pile of rocks, not only you can save the island, all of which is to die anyway very worried about going to go to Egypt.

    So why are in fact, the Egyptian cult worship except perhaps the date of darkness at the center of the Earth was a bit 'named the wrong side of you there is the cult that is the sun. All the followers of the cult that's kind of do not have super-sorry for killing people, he wants to do it again, there is also a purple man to send the devil goo box in Tokyo, is a man of this sexy plums. Thus, in collaboration with plums and handsome dance, to kick off the train a man, what a save and London.

In addition, since the neat about this is, there are archaeologists of some of the gay.

    So you killed her children and go near the cliff hell of the desert and turned them into immortal statues in order to keep the Black Pharaoh forever asleep, stole the Orochi shit from them and I now worship there are some old white man who could actually get their devil of a friend back. So, to help children around the large statue, then, the mummy was a punch to the penis, you must save a good job in Egypt.

    The following must go to save the Transylvanian vampire. Dracula's wife Mara, there's a super-boring Cuckold conspiracy to fall for some of the whiny emo bitch named Callisto. Mara of the back that has an army of vampires attacking a small village of magical creatures secretly. You and I egg him if I scream to bet a point behind Dracula in order to battle with his ex-wife, it is that here, you have no meaning in this context.

    In addition, there is a dirty ancient Romans and human wolves are fighting in both the vampire. In order to have the full report and its triangular shape and the castle suffering, its confirmation, there is a cost in the search for the most despised stealth mission throughout the game please enjoy your trip in Transylvania lesbian.

    Orochi is also there, they kidnapped the girl, was in abundance death. Orochi died in interesting things, like gremlin forest, wolf fur, are as good as accurate idea, we used the girl is to drill a hole in the dirt of the pocket that seems. And, even die dirt. You really just it, because I think working on something that role, and the war of vampires, even a vampire, you have to cover a great deal of non-war.

    In any case, this is not a new game, and I'm going to soon discover that behind Lilith of all, performs a push-up some nasty hip, then cut into our feet you. And you, everyone will go to Venice to study the bureaucratic hell of hate called the Venice of the parliament. Shocking, it is swollen and diplomat is incredibly damaged, have their dirty for a series of events related to waste and other secrets factions around the world are not supposed to be the story of two E 'was there was a little finger. But, also, gave a simulation in the cold computer to play the stall, I mean, leave in the form ready for release in Tokyo.

    When you finally go to Tokyo, the location is sexy plums were destroyed in the dirt bomb that contributed sent to the subway. You can pull your sprint hidden or rhythm percent of all those who, on behalf of the ultra-annoying monster. As a teenager pushed the morning light boy was perverted in the dirt, even bombs, actually the snake to begin tearing a hole, he is like something human dreamer? Lilith, the reality of destroying the world and ripping a hole, since it can kill God, you are trying to restore the old. Dragon Stoner loser, but to get the leader of the hot new faction and one of the other, for you, because he who asked the cause of that bank robbery eccentric supermarket, this time, man. Really Kirsten Gary, there is probably the hell you want to fuck a woman Sonnac warriors and hook-up to a point.

    Mr. Orochi is dissolved stuffed toy robots in human organs now, hang religious groups of the new era, they started to commit suicide pact for the children, 30-story tower is full of their different taste in their sexual relationship secret factory in the basement it is full is a monster in the dirt invasion and employees, are on the other hand, you have the same crappy life expectancy've done in the world.

    If you climb the tower, a predominantly Lilith complained of a dirt around for shoes, we fight. Then, kill the angels. You get the wing.

    The end.