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| Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter's Battle Review; Score: 5.5/10 | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 28 2007, 12:06 AM (1,393 Views) | |
| KOEI Warriors | Apr 28 2007, 12:06 AM Post #1 |
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Beasts Are In The Game? In the Chinese mythology, there are four spiritual creatures (four celestial emblems which are not related to the 12 zodiac animals at all), which each guarding a direction of the compass, the Dragon (Qing Long) for the East, the Phoenix (Zhu Que) for the South, the White Tiger (Bai Hu) for the West and the Chimera/Tortoise (Xuan Wu) for the North. But what is going to do with all of these four beasts? Well, KOEI did make some appearances for those beasts on their Romance of the Three Kingdoms Online game. Now they’re on Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter’s Battle for Nintendo DS as well but unfortunately KOEI did not bring the White Tiger (Bai Hu) to the game, so basically you can control 3 “beasts”/characters and they are the only 3 playable characters in this game. How Does The Game Look Like? First, let us talk about the graphic of the game. Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter’s Battle is in the middle of Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2 (for PSP) and Dynasty Warriors Advance (for GBA) in KOEI handheld games chart list. It does not look better than Dynasty Warriors series on PlayStation Portable, but it may be a little better than Dynasty Warriors Advance comparing the graphic and the gameplay. The graphic of the game is in 2D but you’ll see some 3D effects when you slash the enemies. There is no any opening movie or a proper ending but the “cartoonized” artworks for each character are indeed fascinating. As mentioned, you can only use 3 characters in the game but you can equip up to 6 officers to protect your base, by using the abilities they got, also raise your attack, defense and HP points by equipping them. You can rename your army but it is somehow useless because Phoenix is still a Phoenix, Chimera is still a Chimera, it’s just your small little name which will appear in the end of the game. For the difficulty, you’re able to select and play either in Easy, Normal or Hard mode for the game. Not So Attractive Card System There are 3 kinds of different card you can collect, the red card (which is able to help you to raise your attack, defense and HP points by equipping it), the blue card (which is able to let you to use the abilities, such as stealing enemy’s coins, making enemies not able to attack by freezing them) and the yellow card (which is the most powerful, basically a red + blue card). KOEI might be lack of time for planning and making the cards and the system because each of the character will at least have 2 cards (so it’s duplicated and it’s not attractive anymore), blue and red cards for you to collect and equip. Stages… What To Do With “The Great Wall of China”? There are 11 stages plus 1 secret stage for the game. Initially you started to conquer Yellow Turban (as always) in the first stage. Then you can choose which location you want to conquer, they are Hu Lao Gate, Shu Dao, Cheng Du, Nanman, Xi Liang, Chi Bi, He Fei, Jian Ye, Xu Chang and Hua Bei. Once you finished all the stages, the secret stage in the map, which is “The Great Wall of China” will be unlocked. You may think the final map is quite complicated but if you played it for few more times, you will realize it’s not that hard actually. But also, you’ll find it pretty boring. New Gameplay – Collect Coins, Cast Magic & Make Liu Bei Drop His Sword! The gameplay is not just hack and slash, this time you have to be fast to take over your rival’s base and camps. So by equipping the blue card to let you able to use the skills is recommended, not just protecting yourself because your rival may cast his card abilities to attack on you. All you have to do in the game is taking the base and win, but if the map requires you to defeat 15 enemies just to let the gate open, then do it. Defeating more soldiers will not help you gain any EXP points in the game so you have to be fast! What makes the game more interesting is the cards and abilities which you’re going to use towards your opponent. Also, while you attack the officer, they may drop off their weapons (thus they become very weak) or fall off from the horse/elephant, take this advantage to kill them as soon as possible because they’re weaker without a sword on them. In order to use the ability, you will need 5 coins/golds (or whatever) which dropped from the soldiers once you defeated them, so the skill will be randomly generated (based on what cards that you equipped). If all the cards you equipped are red cards, with no blue cards, you’ll have no ability to use. You can cumulatively collect maximum 10 coins so that means you can use three times abilities continuously including with the ability that has already been generated. The control system is fairly good, it moves smoothly. There are four types of the main attack with the buttons, A, B -> A, B -> B -> A and B -> B -> B -> A along with the musou attack for the X button and casting ability for the Y button. L button allows you to guard/defense yourself from the attack and R is for you to track your rival’s position on the map. Music Of Dynasty Warriors Supposed To Be Good The music is not very attractive as it does not give you the “feel” of the original Dynasty Warriors game series. There are all new tracks you might never listen before (but they’re not very good), except for the “Victory Fanfare” theme. Sometimes it just makes you feel like it’s better to turn off the speaker when playing the game. Good Bye, “Game Over”… There’s no experience or any other points in this game you can gain. You will not die in this game because once you’ve been defeated, you will be sent back to your initial location on the map and restart until you defeat or being defeated, but you won’t have to be re-taking the bases that you’ve already taken. No matter you succeed to win against your rival or not, it is hard for you to see the GAME OVER screen because this game is actually counting who taken most parts of the whole map, so if you lose, the game will still continue for the following stage (no matter you win or lose). Problems – The Game Seemed Incomplete Here are some problems you may have to know. You can only save the game when you finish a stage, you can never save it in the middle of the game when you’re playing it. So when you shut off your Nintendo DS and restart it next time, you will lose everything that you’ve already played in the middle! There is no free mode for you to choose the map that you want to play when you feel want to. All you have to do is go to another new game and re-play the “Battle of the Yellow Turban” at the beginning. The map is sometimes annoying and you may feel you’re lost because of the game lacks on the small map which tells you exactly where the position on the small point of the map you’re at so you’ll have to “guess” the position you’re currently at for this. Also, there is no touch screen support, so you don’t have to take out your pen and use because Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter’s Battle is not designed for the pen you have on your Nintendo DS. There is only 3 characters for the game and KOEI should really make more playable characters for it. All 24 main characters such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Shang Xiang, Lu Bu have their own movesets, skills and musou attack but KOEI did not make them playable. Maybe they would like the game to turn out like “not so generic” for each officer but to be honest those officers’ attack and musou are very cool and they are non-playable characters. Wireless Support For The Game Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter’s Battle supports the battle between each DS through Wireless, as long as you connect your DS with your friend’s DS within 10 meter, you are able to play it together with your friends. Recommendation – Generous Rating: 5.5 out of 10 Lastly, I’ll have to ask you to think. If you’re a true Dynasty Warriors series diehard fan and you’re already owned a Nintendo DS, you can try to buy and play it, else it really depends on you. It is not worth for you buying a brand new Nintendo DS just for this game. Also, it is quite hard to decide whether this is the kind of your game (or maybe not?) because this game is short, a bit different from the original Dynasty Warriors game style (it’s more likely to be Dynasty Warriors Advance with additional card system) and it has no replay value after all. But still, it is a new game play, cool 3D effects, a better control and it supports the wireless battle for this game. If you’re not sure if this is the type of your game, you may have to rent and test it first before you really decide to buy it. Finally, Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter’s Battle deserved 5.5 out of 10. *Please note that this review is based on the experience and thoughts on "Shin Sangoku Musou DS: Fighter's Battle" (Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter's Battle in Japanese version)... |
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| Will | Apr 28 2007, 12:21 AM Post #2 |
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So umm english version came out? GBA dynasty warrior wasnt that great either =/. Does it follow history of the story? |
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 28 2007, 10:54 AM Post #3 |
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I don't think so. In the history those 4 beasts are not to control the war. But of course Battle like Chi Bi u'll have Cao Cao and all that... EN version hasn't out yet by the way. I'm playing JP version one. |
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| LoW | Apr 28 2007, 11:57 AM Post #4 |
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Hmm? Didn't you first give 6,0 and now 5,5 out of 10? Why the sudden change, Chin? |
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 28 2007, 01:07 PM Post #5 |
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I decided to give it 5.5 instead of 6. It's hard to decide because 6 is too good and 5 is too bad for it. So 5.5 is the final rating from me. I deducted 0.5 points because it really does not have a replay value at all and to be honest I'm a bit disappointed on no free mode, duplicated characters for the cards, cannot save in the middle of battle, no touch screen and etc... I thought it's gonna to be interesting but it's not better than DW on PSP, plus the music isn't better than DWA as well... Just the battle using those cards is a bit interesting only. |
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| Qing Long | Apr 28 2007, 10:23 PM Post #6 |
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You're right for the reviews, thanks ^^ Now, it give us an idea about the game. (It's a shame Bai Hu doesn't come and that others beast change their name...) Maybe, they didn't have time to develop the game, because of short game (and only 3 characters playable...) |
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 29 2007, 12:09 AM Post #7 |
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Thanks Qing Long, I'm very afraid that KOEI doesn't like my review... But if you already have Nintendo DS you can get this game to try, it's just not worth for getting a brand new Nintendo DS just for this game...
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| Sun Ce of East Wu | Apr 29 2007, 03:50 AM Post #8 |
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I agree with your review, Inspector. KOEI should have made a 3D-ish Dynasty Warriors Advance sequel, perhaps with all the DW5 characters. |
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 29 2007, 10:25 AM Post #9 |
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Hmm they probably won't make it to all DW5 characters cause they're too many. I'm just wondering why they don't want to make those 25 main characters into playable instead of making them into NPCs, because they have their own movesets, skills and musou attacks... |
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| Mingchan | Apr 29 2007, 11:55 AM Post #10 |
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I wonder why there's no Zhuge Liang?? |
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 29 2007, 12:04 PM Post #11 |
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They only chose 7 main characters from each kingdom of Shu, Wei and Wu. If Zhuge Liang appeared, I'm sure you're not going to use him because the strategist attack points are very low, there's no benefit if you equipped him into your card list, the person like Zhang Fei is very great for you to raise your attack and defense by equipping him. |
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| Mingchan | Apr 29 2007, 01:30 PM Post #12 |
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But there's Sima Yi from Wei... |
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| LittleDragonZ | Apr 29 2007, 01:33 PM Post #13 |
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I was not going to intentionally get this game, but if I ever saw it in a shop, I must admit that there would of been a chance that I might of inserted it into my DS sometime later lol.
 But thanks for the warning Chin.
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| Will | Apr 29 2007, 02:28 PM Post #14 |
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Well DW vol1 wasnt that great but I force myself to play it. Ill probably force myself to play this one. Chin make a DW vol2 and vol1 review |
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| Seruso | Apr 29 2007, 04:35 PM Post #15 |
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It's to bad..the game have only 3 playable chars..and is look like much of the dynasty warriors series ..well,I only buy this game because is dynasty...It's really a shame of this game is that bad...I expect more of this game...thanks for the review for "warning" us about that Dynasty DS |
 
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 29 2007, 06:19 PM Post #16 |
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My unbiased review... Glad you guys like it. I'm so afraid that I'll be scolded by the fans lol! |
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| OsotogariWarrior | Apr 29 2007, 06:49 PM Post #17 |
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I found the review to be a nice and interesting read myself, thanks for the warning. I'll still probably get it, but at least I know that I shouldn't raise my expectations too high  EDIT: I found it a fair review, you went out there and said what the game was like and what you thought of it, you shouldn't be afraid of the fanboys (we idolize you  ) Insp Chin
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 29 2007, 07:10 PM Post #18 |
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That's nice and thank you! Oh thanks for mentioning my DW DS review at here too - http://uk.gamespot.com/users/OsotogariThro...=m-100-24978655 Thank you so much...
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| Will | Apr 29 2007, 07:11 PM Post #19 |
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You can only play as 3 players? you serious? |
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 29 2007, 11:11 PM Post #20 |
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Only 3 playable characters. I've already got and played the game so yeah... |
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| Will | Apr 29 2007, 11:12 PM Post #21 |
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So you play as those 3 people and the rest are bodyguards right? |
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| KOEI Warriors | Apr 30 2007, 12:14 AM Post #22 |
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They just stand on the base doing nothing. They won't attack even your rival comes to the base, you just duel with the rival (one from those 3 characters) one by one so those officers they just doin' nothing and they're so-called bodyguards... |
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| SlickSlicer | Apr 30 2007, 08:02 AM Post #23 |
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That sucks. I was really looking forward to it since the DS is the only console I play other than the PC. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait till my DS gets fixed and then stick to playing Custom Robo (good game, I recommend it >:)). |
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| Zhu Rong | May 30 2007, 02:08 AM Post #24 |
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I find it very rude of KOEI to be a tad bit sexist, and not include Zhen Ji, Xing Cai, Nu Wa, Yue Ying, The Qiao Sisters, Diao Chan, and Zhu Rong in the game... But what can you do... |
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| KOEI Warriors | Jun 3 2007, 05:11 PM Post #25 |
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Lol. Well I thought it's going to be at least 3 girls but there's only 1 girl in this game. And all the 3 playable characters are male, so this market is totally not for girls and I still have to say, "this game is pretty boring!" |
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