Warriors: Orochi for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Dear Koei:

For me, you now break Samurai Warrior and Dynasty Warrior franchise forever. Nobody care about your stupid storyline with alien or time travel. We player do not care about Japanese history or Chinese history. We buy Koei game because this game fun. And easy to play. But you cause major fault when you break game control. Now player must control camera. And you force INVERTED view! Player cannot change this settings! That is very, very stupid, indeed. I think I will not play you game no more.

Then you throw in stupid power for character to change to other characters in middle of play. This is very stupid design. Koei try to change franchise into Mortal Kombat? Why? This not a fighting game. This a strategy/action game. If KOEI going to change mechanics of gameplay so much, I will not play KOEI game anymore! I not buy games from KOEI anymore, not even when they on sale.

Controls are broken. You fix. Fix now:
1. How to turn off Inverted Camera? Player should choose. This not normal way many people play. Inverted Camera is backwards for many players. Player spend too much time controlling camera. You need to add button to CENTER CAMERA. Map this to LEFT trigger.

2. If you can, give player full control of all the buttons. Allow player to customize controls. ALL OF THEM. Not a few. ALL. This gives a better gameplay experience.

I like DW: Gundam, but it has same problem with Inverted Camera and controls. I like Gundam more, though, because the art is better and idea is more original.

The graphics were O.K and the story... well who cares... my main problem was that this was a Dynasty/Samurai mash yet for some reason they tossed out all the strategy elements of Samurai (and just kept the characters) e.g. you cannot command your generals to attack other bases, create alliances, call for reserves etc... So all the strategy guys who liked SW (like me) sorry but it is now a plain hack and slash a pretty decent hack and slash but if you were into the strategic elements of Samurai W you too will be disappointed.