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DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires

33 Hours played

Huge improvement over DW8: Empires

Pro:

Secret plans (new stratagems system) makes the battle fun. Once you get far into the conquest, you can execute all kinds of secret plans to change the dynamic of battle.
Music are great!
Graphic looks good compared to DW8: Empires
You can’t rush to kill the boss like in DW9
The moral bar have numbers now
Can have up to three sworn siblings instead of two. DW8: Empires can only do two.
Can have up to 200 amount of officers in the kingdom
Better optimization compared to DW9 due to limited space.
You can improve the relationship of officers 6 times per turn instead of once per turn like in DW8: Empires.
You can redeploy at the cost of 25% of your troop in battle.
Better GUI: Easier to identify who is a famous officer vs who is a generic office in the menu. Useful for recruiting/scouting.
Character Creation is more detailed when it comes to facial features.
Stroll Feature: It’s nice to run around and see your troops, and take some screenshots.
Some items are carried over to another playthrough.
Added details - Enemy general can show up during a stroll if you have good relation with them. There name will be in red.
Added details - If you have good relation with the enemy general, during battle, they will express that they don't want to fight you. (You still fights regardless)

Con:

While fun, combat is very repetitive. I suppose this is normal for all DW games.
No secondary weapon.
No child during gameplay. The child is born after the conquest of China.
HUGH STEP BACKWARD! Customization is worst compared to DW8! Make your own horse? Make your own unit? Make your own banner? All gone. We just have Officer creation.
HUGH STEP BACKWARD! No full custom scenario. We have a half-baked custom scenario where we can only edit one kingdom. In DW8: Empires. You have full control and have set up any scenario we want.
No “bonus points” anymore. In DW8: Empires, some can say the drive to play the game is to collect bonus points and buy all the bonus items. In DW9: Empires. You have no drive to play the game again. Once you clear the conquest once, you might as well quit.
No extra gameplay modes, only Conquest.
Stroll Feature: While it is cool, it is just extra that doesn’t do anything to benefit the gameplay. Walked into the enemy territory? Nothing happens.
Gathering items are all random and relies on officer relationships to be high enough for them to give you stuff. This makes it very grindy and luck based.