Its a change.
posted by shadowmyre (RICHFORD, NY) Mar 17, 2010
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First: this is a multiplayer game (on-line only) and the difficulty is pitched as such. While beating it alone is doable, it is much harder than your average DW game. The expectation is that you'll have two or three people helping you out, and the difficulty is slanted as such.
In order to get better weapons/orbs/chi abilities, you need to level up the shops in town. This requires Officer cards (acquired randomly from officers that show up in town between missions) to level the shop, and materials you find in missions to actually build the new facility. You then need more of those materials to create the weapon, and yet more of them to enhance the weapon.
Characters have a primary weapon, which they'll always use. They also have a secondary weapon, which can be from any of the available types (but, in actuality, will probably be a bow). Each weapon has three different styles it can be used with (Power/Speed/Tech) which affect the weapons stats and how many orbs can be equipped.
Fury mode lets you gives you more dashes and jumps, changes how weapons work (bows shoot two arrows per light attack, etc) and gives you access to your musou (which would end your fury mode).
Now, the bad. Sorcerer enemies love to fly around and strafe you. Hitting them with regular weapons is problematic, which means most people need a bow (and bows are best against sorcerer type enemies, which is nice). The target lock is pretty weak, as changing it to a specific enemy often seems to be a matter of sheer luck; I've targeted enemies on the other side of the battlefield, but couldn't target the general right in front of me. Some enemies can't be targeted at all.
As for the good, the game is fun, with nicer graphics than I expected. Lots of character building options, the ability to use any weapon with anyone. Fury mode can be fun, and I like jumping over walls instead of breaking down gates. The statue enemies take some getting used to, but are a neat addition.
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