I still do damage (sometimes a pretty decent amount) and can chip away at his bulwark-like defense. The solution: When I, as a low-level officer, attack a much stronger officer, my attacks don’t make him flinch or interrupt his combos in any way.

The regular troops aren’t there to harm you - they’re there to annoy, pure and simple. The gall of him….īut this is the problem: that attack, though it interrupted your combo and totally ruined your day, didn’t scratch you. Now his boss, a fellow super-powered officer who can unleash his own lengthy combos, is juggling you in the air while you curse that little pissant who worked up the nerve to actually attack you. Here you are, unleashing an endless chain of fuck-you-up from your surfboard-sized sword, only to be stopped dead with a flinch because some overly-ambitious dickweed with a spear hit you with what he’s delusional enough to refer to as a “strong” attack. There’s nothing in Dynasty Warriors more frustrating than having a super-powered combo interrupted by some anonymous trash-mob soldier.

Make Trash Mobs Dangerous, Not Just Annoying I’m not talking about any drastic changes to the basic mash-X-and-stuff-dies grinding formula - just a few simple suggestions to add some weight to the game’s tertiary strategy elements. But playing Dynasty Warriors 7 made me realize something: as good-enough as this game is for what it is, it has room to do so much more. Escher-like architecture….Īfter all of… that… there’s just something refreshing about being able to rush into a feudal Chinese war zone and come out the other side unscathed, with 1,000 notches on my cartoonishly over-sized sword. After embarking on a Summer-long JRPG bender in an effort to make something resembling a dent in my gaming backlog (almost all of which are RPGs of some ethnicity), I’d about had my fill of spending anywhere from 30-60 hours slowly powering up my heroes in order to achieve the strength necessary to save the world from a retro-tech cyborg Nazi and his land-battleship that shoots lasers out of a giant lance that used to be a castle, or a time-travelling military intelligence officer/monster made from the ruins of M.C. Cut to today, the ninth of September of the same year, whereupon I’ve logged over 30 hours into Dynasty Warriors 7. That’s what I tweeted on August 17, 2011. In an unforeseeable twist, Dynasty Warriors 7 actually make some big changes from it's predecessors. Opinions by GamesBeat community writers do not necessarily reflect those of the staff. This post has not been edited by the GamesBeat staff.

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