Great Game...But Brought Down by a Huge Flaw....
posted by Gobind05 (ROSEVILLE, CA) Feb 24, 2012
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A Little backstory. I bought the First Edition PS Vita and pre-ordered Dynasty Warriors Next. As the days went by, I was super excited to play it because it looked great! I went and picked it up and ya...about that greatness....I returned it and bought Dynasty Warriors 7 for ps3
The Good:
-It looks amazing on the Vita!
-Gameplay
When I say gameplay, I mean the hack and slash we all love. It's here and it's glorious espcially since they added two different types of Musou.
-Amazing Soundtrack (As always)
I love DW games OSTs because they get you in the mood to chop down thousands of soldiers. A lot of the songs are from DW7, which is fine with me because I loved DW7.
The Horrible Bad:
-The Touch Mini-games
This is what made me return the game. Yes, I know it sounds dumb but hear me out. Most of the mini-games using the Vita's touch screen are okay EXCEPT for Duels....this has to be one of the most annoying concepts ever put in a game. The problem with Duels are they pop up all the time and cannot be skipped. Add that Duels are non-responsive and extremely cheap. An example of this goes as such, I was playing a level that took me about 10mins to go through completely and then went and faced the final boss of the map....the duel took me an hour to beat because I kept losing to it's cheapness. You have to hit the computer about 50+ times while you can only take about 4-5 hits. Trust me when I say this, it ruins the game...seriously. I tried getting through it but you have a 1-3 duels each map. It was nerve wracking.
The Kind of Bad (But not huge):
-You cannot pick the track playing
Not a deal breaker but I did enjoy choosing the more epic tracks of the OST
-Story was all over the place
I say this because a new person to the franchise would probably be confused like none other.
-The progression system is kind of weak
Summary:
DW Next was a great idea but poorly executed. If you were like me thinking that this was just a port of DW7...you
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