Koei Tecmo has released a free demo for its upcoming game, Touken Ranbu Warriors. A collaboration between the Musou (Warriors) series and Touken Ranbu — a free online browser card game — launches on Switch on 24th May, so this will give fans a taste of what's to come a week ahead of time.
The demo will let you carry over your save data to the full game when it launches next week. In the demo, you'll be able to play through the prologue as well as try out all 15 playable members of the Touken Danshi.
Not only that, Koei Tecmo has kicked off a Photo Campaign competition. Starting from today, until 23rd May, players who download the demo can dive into Photo Mode, take pictures of their favourite moments, and share them on social media. Three fans will be able to win a limited edition poster and two keychains with two different characters, and three others can win a digital copy of Touken Ranbu Warriors! You can find out more about the competition on the game's official website.
It might be one to try out before release, too. In our import review of the Japanese version, we gave the game a 5/10, where he had praise for the visuals, but felt the game brought nothing new to the Warriors formula:
For a game based more or less on a formula established over 20 years ago, Touken Ranbu Warriors – in terms of core gameplay – is nothing new to Musou veterans. It’s an almost excessively lax variation on the template, though, in which the actual ‘Easy Mode’ offers almost no resistance at all. It feels less like wading into a battlefield teeming with bloodthirsty enemies and more like sweeping an endless succession of floors littered with trash.
Let us know if you're interested in this new Warriors spin-off in the comments.
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I just don't get these games. I've tried several and they just really bore me.
@nilcam same here. Lol. You are not the only one. Last I played was fire emblem warriors which just was bad to me.
The promo video was so unwatchable I couldn't imagine playing the game. As my grandfather used to always say (RIP gran-pop-pop) You've played one Koei game you've played all 17,000 of it's exact same iterations.
@Riku3456 @nilcam
Musous are always hit or miss. I've only enjoyed Age of Calamity because of its emphasis towards Breath of the Wild.
@Sonos
You'd be surprised how different some games can be (not to mention Koei Tecmo doesn't just make Musou games).
Are you guys having a silly sub-header contest? 'Cause I'm all for it.
@ModdedInkling I probably wouldn't be that surprised. My first Koei game was DW2 when it came out. The first few I was nuts for. Then after seeing them not doing anything else but tweaking the same original code over and over and over again - that was it for me.
Gaiden was great - until the merger.
I'd play a musou where you are actually just sweeping up garbage.
In my opnion, Musou games only works as a Fan-Service game, like Zelda or Fire Emblem. I'll pass this one
Surely Koei have made over 20 Musou games for the Switch by now?
And STILL no Dead or Alive!!!
@ModdedInkling @nilcam Persona 5 Strikers is a bit different than the typical warriors game and one of my fave games on the Switch. If you like JRPGs then it might be worth a try since its like a hybrid of the two genres. I tried Age of Calamity demo but not really a Zelda guy so it didn't really click with me. For some reason I'm kinda interested in this one though and will try out the demo. Doubt that I'll be hooked enough to buy it especially at full price.
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