Addicted to fighting samurai-snakes

[jethrien]

Chuckro was playing his new Dynasty Warriors spin-off, Warriors Orochi, on Saturday. He noted that the game had a two-player mode, and asked me if I wanted to try.

And there went our weekend.

Holy mackeral, this is the most addicted to a game I've been since Katamari. All I really want to do is fight samurai and snake people. I closed by eyes last night to go to sleep, and I saw little Chinese and Japanese warriors running around a battlefield behind my lids. Also, the theme music? Most ridiculously catchy thing ever.

Damn you, Warriors Orochi!

Comments

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Arrgh, text box! Stop cutting off my map!

Why Guan Yu?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure why I picked him to begin with--Shu are the "good guys" in the novel, and he is "the man with the beautiful beard", but there was no rational reason to pick him at first. Once I'd played a couple of the games, it became clear that he's got a good reach and is fairly strong, if a little slow, which makes him easy to learn the quirks of a new system on. And typically the Shu campaign is a good starter and has fewer oddities than Wu or Wei, and the starting characters are usually the sworn brothers: Lui Bei, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. Which means that Guan Yu is always available.

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

I feel like anyone who's played a few of these games has their default/favorite character. I usually pull out one of the Wu strategists, such as Lu Xun or That Other Guy With A Sword Who Likes To Set Things On Fire.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

"Zhao Yu, you are a fool to mock me!"

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I'm developing an affection for Ranmaru, but I haven't played that many characters yet. (Her sword's got really great reach.)