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SlickSlicer	Jan 2 2008, 01:40 AM
- Posts: 3,367 Group: Banned Member #7,082 Joined: April 29, 2007	I picked storyline and characters. These two things are always why I play Koei games. Essentially, Kou Shibusawa and Koei have consistently managed to [successfully] dramatize historical eras. In doing so, Koei makes them more interesting. Sometimes Koei weakly develops their characters, but when Koei does a great job, the result is brilliant. Let me give some examples: Weak Development: Xu Huang-"My quest for new dialogue...will have to wait." Strong Development: Toshiie-"Hey, everybody laugh at the Potato Samurai." [insert Potato Samurai song here] Kessen III was their best game for great plot and interesting characters, in my opinion. Samurai Warriors II, though, did a good job as well. The latter did a better job than any other warrior game in making the characters unique. In Dynasty Warriors, most of the playable characters have the same motives, dreams and ambitions. Only a few, like Dong Zhou, Yuan Shao and Meng Huo, stand out as different. In Samurai Warriors though you have: -A justice and honor loving freak (Naoe Kanetsugu)/. "Odawara castle may be impregnable...but it has one weakness. Its lack of justice!" -An arrogant but intelligent jerk (Mitsunari). "My plan is to take all the glory, while you do all the work." -Your valiant run of the mill warriors (Yukimura, TAdakatsu) -Lunatics (Fuma Kotaro, Noh, Maeda Keiji): "A monkey ruling the land? Chaotic, yes, but far too stupid." -Evil but diabolically clever Warlords (Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga): Honganji General: My deities told me to strike the demon king down. Oda Nobunaga; Then your deities are screwing with you. They sided with me long ago. Honda Tadakatsu: I will destroy everything you throw at me. Takeda Shingen: What about kittens, Tadakatsu? If I threw those at you, would you kill them as well. Pragmatists (Date Masamune, Tokugawa Ieyasu): Naoe Kanetsugu: You fight only for profit. Honor shall strike you down! Date Masamune: Profit...Honor...what does it matter what we fight for? We're still sending men to war. Ishida Mitsunari: Even if I need to send 100,000 men against you, I will defeat you in the name of honor. Tokugawa Ieyasu: If you sent so many people to their deaths to defeat me, that's not very honorable, is it? Idealists (Azai Nagamasa...others?) Faith-Inspired Generals (Uesugi Kenshin): "Bishamonten, lend me the power to strike down my foes." Well, you get the idea. The character range is diverse, which makes each character's storyline interesting.


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