Random: Switch Hack-And-Slash Game Warriors Orochi 4 Just Won A Guinness World Record

Why does the picture in the tweet say “Warriors Orochi 3”?

So what's the excuse for the very limited roster in Fire Emblem Warriors?

I just preordered this for the Switch yesterday. Its $75 on the eshop, but I got it for $55 at bestbuy. I hope the physical release gets the same preorder bonuses as the digital version . .

@bimmy-lee : We're a number ahead Japan, in name only.

The reason for this is that the second Warriors Orochi game (which had a subtitle in Japan) was instead numbered for the U.S. release, so when the fourth game was released (the third game, Z, is exclusive to Japan), it was released as Warriors Orochi 2 in Japan, so for the international release, they had to release it as Warriors Orochi 3. The discrepancy is quite idiotic, really.

So, when Smash bros comes out, will that win a Guiness World Record for most playable characters, stages and music in a fighting game?

Either that dude is real tall or that lady is real tiny in that picture. That is all I have to add.

Hooray! And I know a grand-total of 0 of all those characters! Double hooray!

....I'll stick with Hyrule Warriors, thank you. But good for them!

@ryancraddock - Thanks for the correction, I shouldn’t have assumed. I thought Musō was a catch all term for the entirety of the Warriors series (aside from being an art/ability in game).

@Silly_G - I knew it would have to be something weird like that. So needlessly confusing, I love it. Thank you for the explanation.

Sakurai: I've put everything into Smash Bros. Ultimate to make it the best game it can be, all at the expense of my mental and physical health, so I kind of hope you weren't expecting too many new fighters.

[sees Warriors Orochi 4]

Sakurai: Hold my Metamato.

@Yosher You may know Zeus, Athena, Ares, Perseus and Odin. They are in there.

Personally, I'm interested because the characters are new to me. It's nice to play around in a new world sometimes. And all the characters are actually historical figures, so it's neat to look them up and see who they really were. Not that it has anything to do with the game, I'm sure, but still neat.

@JasmineDragon I guess I do know those. I've never really been very familiar with the series so I didn't even know the games had historical figures in them to begin with. Knowing that, I might actually pick it up sometime as well.

@ReaderRagfish Nah, that probably went to Ghostbusters. Stupid stairs.

@Frendo what is there to remember and how is it different then any other muso game. there is punch - punch triangle - punch punch triangle.... etc

All the same for all chars but just different looking movesets

I think I'd have problems choosing. @.@

Also, it's a multiplatform game, for PC, Ps4, Switch and Xb1.

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But how is the quality? You could have a million characters and if the game isn't fun, I don't care.

Still undecided about the game overall. It looks like a good Musou game overall, but on the other hand it's another Musou game.... I can't quite get excited for it with the many other releases (on all platforms.)

FE Warriors feels like the height of the series since the FE mechanics really fit Musou so well.

@FragRed Probably not. Pretty sure it's been beaten by DBZ before. Tenkaichi 3 had 161 playable characters after all.

EA be like; think of the DLC possibilities 0_0

@patbacknitro18 1) Nintendo still deeming most of the franchise "obscure" outside Japan. Heroes mostly escapes that mentality from the start because mobile freemiums need a lot of characters for collections and gachas anyway. XD

2) the necessity to invent real time action movesets for many characters who all come from turn-based games and used to have some five seconds of animation per attack. Not a hopeless obstacle (after all, Dissidia solved it quite well), but depending on the time and budget they got for a first shot...

@patbacknitro18 maybe if the “Fire Emblem Warriors” acronym was M.A.N.Y., there would be a lot of fighters. Unfortunately, though…

@patbacknitro18 So we have reason to buy Fire Emblem Warriors 2?

hhahahah so cool! Day 1 to me! love musou games

@patbacknitro18 I know right, that game's roster is so small and limited that it drives me insane, like what about classic heroes, or non-Lord characters?

@Joker13z He's standing on the corpse of Dynasty Warriors 9.

I really liked Fire Emblem Warriors and Hyrule Warriors.

They've earned me as a fan

So I'm buying this as my first main series Warriors game (granted it's split between Warriors and Warriors Orachi, but it's not a crossover with another game).

I remember Warriors Orachi 3 came to Wii and Wii U, but didn't get much love. Hopefully more people pay attention to this new entry.

@nessisonett Haha

I'm a sucker for all "Warriors" games, so I'll be getting this day one on the Switch

Geez, more isn't always better... But that's a lot of characters. Who could possibly have time to level up and play with even a third of that roster?

Haha, I knew most playable characters was exactly what it was going to be before I read this.

@Heavyarms55 Warriors Orochi 3 is really great. I put down Hyrule Warriors for like a week just to play that game. I wish I could see my play time on PS4 cause I'm pretty sure it's huge by now. Seeing as this has just about every character including new with new features to gameplay, I'm about to waste my whole life again once I get this...

@Yosher While it's true you'll probably enjoy it more if you know some of the characters, I wouldn't worry about that too much. With apparently 170, you're bound to find someone you like. That was the case for me when I jumped into the second game in this. (Warriors Orochi 2)

I love some of these characters so much that I want to go play the games they are from like Dynasty Warriors 8 and Samurai Warriors 4.

This was being tracked for a record....? Ok.

I wish WO3 was released in english for the Switch, gonna have to live with just WO4.

I knew it would be the number of characters...

I remember when Sonic Heroes won a similar record but it was most playable characters in an action game.

Too bad nowadays it's all about Sonic and smaller Sonic.

That's probably the most unremarkable record I've ever heard of.

I enjoy all the Warriors games on Switch, so this a no brainer for me, but geez thats alot of characters. Gonna be a massive time sink.

People who snarkily mock warriors games as shallow button masher with no variation in gameplay are likely only play briefly or not at all. They can be surprisingly deep if you dig in. Of course like many series quality is varied between entries, that's why when DW9 turned out to be shallow and bland (like most non-fans think the series always is) longtime fans are disappointed.

@raisenv It doesn't help that Tecmo Koei has been trying to milk their fans for years in plainly obvious ways for years now, putting out expansions and iterations that don't really do much from game to game, all with fairly little competition - it really feels like they've carved out a monopoly for a type of game, and it's easy to be cynical about that.

With that said, Hack 'n' Slash games like the Musou franchise are best enjoyed as a gaming "snack food", at least from what I've played of 'em, and there I'm not really gonna overanalyze them or look for complexities that aren't obvious. I've been told by fans about their strategy elements, but if I cared about that, I have far more complex and interesting strategy games I'd play instead, like Total War. If I cared about the combat and its inherent challenge, I'd play character-action games like Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, and most everything Platinum has made. And I want to min-max characters, I have Action-RPGs for days that give me far more incentive to do so while also giving me a compelling world to explore, and sometimes even an interesting story to follow.

I'm just saying: Warriors games work because they they keep things simple. They're ultimately fun games with simple character archetypes, with lots of shiny effects and animations tailor-made to make you feel powerful, which makes them great for blowing off steam. Some people might call that shallow, but then again, what is a jacuzzi, if not the ultimate Kiddy pool? Shallow doesn't have to equal bad, and there no reason not to embrace the fans that just look at it skin deep.

...unless that just causes Koei Tecmo to double down on all of its criticisms and put out a completely worthless piece of garbage that looks like the company interns hashed it out in a week while the rest of the dev team blew their budget at the races.

@CanisWolfred I don't know what Warriors game you've played but you don't really need to "overanalyze them or look for complexities that aren't obvious". Because those "complexities" like light strategy element and weapon/equipment stats etc are actually part of the series since, like, the longest time. And very obvious. They also add more to the game. It is awesome when you can slay 1000 enemy soldiers, but it's even more awesome when you can pick the best route to enemy camp like a cunning strategist you are, then defeat enemy general in a duel with your lightning sword that happened to be his elemental weakness. All while slaying 1000 enemies along the way, in style. Now that's a thing you can't do in Total War.
I don't remember any game in the genre where you can beat the game, or even a stage by standing still in one area and mindlessly pressing attack button like many people think it is. You'd either failed the mission or owned by enemy officers. So I don't understand how you think the game should just stick to hackin' and slashin'. See, the concept of Warriors/Musou genre is 'you fighting big battle in big battlefield' with hack n slash around hordes of enemy as just one element of gameplay, therefore other elements like strategy or equipment preparation have similar importance in the game. And they may not be as deep as other game specialized in it, but they can be fun and add more to the gameplay.

@raisenv And yet is still incredibly simplistic compared to most games I've played. I'll admit, I don't play a lot of any Musou game, but I've never really needed to plot my course or find the most effictient route - I just kill whatever was in front of me, and I seemed to be rewarded for it. If that's different on higher difficulties, then I've never experienced it, because why would I ever want a challenge out of a Warriors game? That would take the series out of the niche it currently occupies in my library, and it doesn't stack up well to the plethora of options I already have for more complex experiences.

I guess my point is simply that: The series is seen as shallow because it does reward you for button-mashing at its base difficulty, and that is not a bad thing.

@CanisWolfred In Warriors Orochi 3 there are plenty of stages where you will fail if you don't reach your objective in time and that requires some tight planning. In DW8 enemy officers can eat you alive if you don't learn about weapon elements and switch-counter attack, even in normal difficulty. BTW that's new feature introduced in DW8, wow it's shocking that they introduced new gameplay element in each new series right? Also it's not something you need to overanalyze it, they show you right at tutorial. Then there's managing the keeps and outposts in Hyrule Warriors, or the fields in DW Gundam. I don't remember any Musou game that's just as straightforward as you said. Maybe Neptunia U, but that's not even Koei's (yes, they're not monopolizing the genre).
Also your logic sounds ignorant, how do you think challenges in Warriors games are not worth it if you never even give it a chance? You recognize it as its own thing, so why keep comparing its elements to another games? Yes, Total War can give you better challenge in strategy and DMC can give you better complexity in combat, but Warriors series can also give you challenges in its own thing you wouldn't find in other games. Once you start see it as a whole and not just a bunch of separate elements that other games did better.
If you want some easy time with games, then you can just play any games in easy difficulty. It's not exclusive to Warriors series, and it's unfair to think that the series/genre only has that kind of experience to offer. I once beat Platinum's Metal Gear Rising in easy, ignoring all the advanced moves the game offered. It was fun enough, but I do acknowledged that I'm missing a lot.

I only need 1 playable character to enjoy a hack-and-slash. Her name is Cereza. #bayonetta3please

Whatever, can I have Hyrule Warriors 2 now?....WITH LINEBECK?!