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My review for Dynasty Warriors Godseekers

I review games after beating them, but I never type it out or tell anyone details, unless it’s to myself. I’m my own friend.

So, I’ll be talking about my experience with the new Dynasty warriors game Godseekers. This will probably be long so it’s under read more. If anyone wanting to play the game reads this, this will be some spoilers, not a lot. If you don’t care, buckle up because I’ve got lots to say about this game.

To start, this game first came out on Japan in August 2016 for PS3, PS4, and PSVita, under the name Shin Sangoku Musou Eiketsuden. Eiketsuden became Godseekers after being released overseas, and the game is only available on PS4 and PSVita, digitally only.

As far as I’m concerned, a good amount of fans weren’t happy to see this game be announced, and were expecting DW9, which had been confirmed later on.

The plot is about handsome dragon boy Zhao Yun on a journey with his childhood friend Lei Bin and a mystic named Lixia, to find five mystic orbs that were spread across China, because they’re practically the distant cousins of the Dragonballs, except you can’t make wishes off these. This game is Shu centric, and if you don’t like that kingdom, this isn’t your kind of game.

Zhao Yun and Lei Bin are first seen in their hometown, exploring a cave on the hunt for remaining members who are wanting to keep the Yellow Turbans alive, when all of a sudden, they come across a block of ice containing a girl. Yellow Turbans come to try and kick their asses because they’re like “This girl belongs to us!”, but Zilong shoves his spear up all their asses while giving you some tutorial of the game. Afterwards, Lei Bin decides to be bold and release the girl; more Y.T come and this time Zhao Yun isn’t alone. Lei Bin becomes a good pal and helps out, showing more tutorial on how to play the game.

Afterwards, the girl introduces herself as Lixia, and tells them of five orbs she lost. This is where the journey begins! Yay!

You’ll meet plenty of characters, though not all of them are in the game. We do get to meet Xun Yu who first appeared playable in DW8 Empires, so that’s cool. Meeting these characters, you can recruit them by using the Path of Destiny, which is what you get later on in the game. The Path of Destiny can be accessed through the world map menu, and is a mirror where you can trigger conversations between certain characters, then get rewards for doing them, or gain a new ally.

You have to meet certain requirements to get a particular conversation, from having a specific character fight an amount of times, to getting a specific character to a certain level, and so on so forth. Sometimes, you’ll have to complete a special stage that will appear on the map (you’ll know when there’s a green icon of hands). When you gain characters as allies, you can play as them yourselves, but some will be harder to get than some.

There’s also a skill board where you use points to get officers skills, hence the name skill board. You can equip three items to use in battle and three skills at a time. Try as many skills as you want because all the officers have a lot.

Before heading off into battle, you can switch out officers for new ones to try, depending on the situation. If the character as a lock symbol on it, you cannot change them out.

Like in DW8, you can reforge and temper weapons in the shop and buy stuff. I’m not joking when I say, in like 25 minutes, I got over 1 million gold xD So don’t worry about your pocket change running low.

As you progress through the game, things start getting darker. There’s a demon named Chiyou, a thing defeat by Huangdi and Lixia, and the cause of Lixia being on Earth. 

This is basically the main plot, starting from the end of the Yellow Turban Rebellion to right after Liu Bei receives a land to call his own. You can also do 3 extra battles that will appear after you complete a stage in the main story, just for the sake of grinding low level characters, getting some more weapons or items, of if you’re like me, and want to try and get 100% completion. If you do all the extra battles, you get a silver trophy.

Finally, if the tutorial isn’t enough for you, you can go to the training grounds. It’s not hard to miss.

Now, let’s talk about the two new characters of the game. These two are original characters, not historical. (Well, there were probably two people with their names, making them historical, but not ever mentioned in the history of the Three Kingdoms)

Lei Bin is a history loving, adorkable lore master who’s been friends with Zhao Yun since childhood. He’s got a good head on his shoulders, and is very observant, but the reason he came with Zhao Yun in the first place was to explore the rest of the land and find out more about Lixia and add to his mental knowledge. Over time, he begins helping for the sake of the world, helping in many battles to help Lixia get her orbs back. As I said he’s observant, so he realizes something before anyone else does, that’s for sure. He’s one of the few who do long ranged attacks, so I suggest keeping him or someone like him around. Also, he may or may not be crushing on Lixia. Just saying.

Lixia is a pretty pink haired ‘goddess’ from the realm of mystics. There’s really not much about her unfortunately, but at first, she will come off as bossy, rude, and a bit demanding. She’s gradually open up and begin putting trust into humans the further into the game you get. She doesn’t fight, but she’s there on the battle field with you, where in certain battles, you can use one of her orbs to activate and start a fire attack, wind to change, or earth to move. She acts as a cursor of some sort, switching from person to person as you switch characters on the battlefield.

Like every game, this one has pros and cons.

Pros: I think it’s got a good plot going on, especially nearing the end of the game, but as for the rest of it, it’s nothing we don’t know. I’m also fond of the original characters; I was able to connect with each, even though there wasn’t much for Lixia. I enjoyed hers’ and Lei Bin’s characters though. The soundtrack is also very lovely, knowing how to set the mood sometimes.

Cons: You will find spelling errors, punctuation errors, some dialogue that is misplace (meaning there will be a character or two who will say something but they weren’t meant to say it; another character was though). Also, here’s something stupid: what makes sense? Wind Orb or Wood Orb? The people who created the English dialogue, THEY HAD ONE JOB! It can also get dull quickly doing so many of those extra battles just to level up or get items and stuff.

I personally think the added story, not what I already know from previous DW games, but the new stuff with Zhao Yun and friends searching for the orbs where dark stuff come in was entertain-able to listen and watch.

My rating for this game is a 7/10, or a B-. They could of added more plot, extended the story more by adding more historical battles and stuff to the game while toning it down on a lot of the extra battles, but the game definitely caught my attention and I enjoyed playing it :) I’d recommend this game because looks can be deceiving. However, we all have our opinions, so don’t be a dingus and step all over mine.

Until then, enjoy Lei Bin shooting and flipping around *w* WOO! LOOK AT HIM GO!