#just waiting to see when they'll go on sale since koei is pretty generous with their sales

[pierswife]

Okay, I do have to ask, though ... when you played SW, who was your favorite character (or who were your favorite characters) to play? I know gameplay varies a bit depending on the games, but I'm still curious!

My frame of reference is SW4 (if my posting didn't make that obvious asdfghjkl), and I tend to favor characters with a Hyper Attack focus ... something about the speed they have is very appealing. Hence, me being a Yoshitsugu/Masamune girlie ... I can't remember Hanbei's "specialty" off the top of my head, but I also know I love playing him, too.

~ throughpatchesofviolet 🪻

@throughpatchesofviolet

OKAY OKAY OKAY HI SARAH NOW THAT I CAN PROPERLY SIT AT MY PC

You see this girl? This girl right here? This is my fucking daughter. I am plucking her out of the game and we're going to go on so many fun little adventures together. Gracia also happens to be one of my favorite characters to play as across the games! I've always enjoyed the magical aspect of her weapon and how it takes some serious skill to get good at crowd-control combat with her outside of hyper attacks. My first game for Samurai Warriors was her introduction game, actually! Which was Samurai Warriors 2: XL! So I ended up getting a soft spot for Magoichi as well since he was the supporting lead in her story for that game. They had such a cute almost father-daughter relationship and whenever it gets a nod in the newer games it makes me smile all goofy. I also really identified with her when I was younger with her wanderlust and want to learn more about the world! I would also kill to cosplay as her one day because that's legit my dream aesthetic.

Out of the games though, I have the most hours sunk into the 3DS games (the first one being based on 3 and the second one being based on 4)! While they aren't the best versions of the game to play graphics and speed-wise, they were still super super fun and I frickin LOVED how the developers made sure each character got their own little story line events with the MC (which was basically just an edit mode character) and side stories! Like those games are LONG. But I enjoy them very very much and it was great to be able to play one of my favorite series of games on the go.

As for other characters I like to play? Takatora and Masamune are SUPER fun. I'm also a sucker for Kiyomasa, Masanori, and Mitsunari because they're all super fun to play too. Oh! And Nene! Love the ninjas in general. Lady No is also pretty fun. And I use Naotora's weapon on one of my edit mode characters in Samurai Warriors 4 Empires (Koei I am begging please bring 4 Empires to PC so I don't have to dig my PS3 out every time I want to play it). Honestly I could go on and on with the list! I find almost everyone very fun to play as (with an exception of Kanbei, I like him as a character but his moveset leaves a lot to be desired for me).