Samurai Warriors 1 - Finally Played! - Honest Thoughts 

Historically speaking, Mitsuhide's betrayal of Oda was mysterious then and still is now. For a few days he was the most powerful man in Japan but was then himself tracked down and killed. By the way, Oda is often portrayed as a demon because he was very brutal to a Buddhist sect. They were warrior monks from memory but in that instance they were unarmed. He set his forces to surround the mountain, set it alight and then kill anyone who tried to escape. There are also stories about him enjoying watching executions and torture (which were normal in that period but enjoying them wasn't). He was also extremely arrogant like you say. He was basically a Japanese incarnation of Alexander, extremely competent but arrogant to the point of mental illness and prepared to be extremely brutal. Hideyoshi took over after that. He was a commoner in background so he is a bit more 'salt of the earth', but also pulled up the ladder behind him and made the social structure much stricter. The game doesn't touch on this second aspect. Finally, Ieyasu fought and won the biggest battle of the whole period and one of the largest battles of that century around the world. After that the samurai period ended as many restrictions were placed on individual lords. There was less freedom on an individual level too, but there was a general peace after many years of chaos and suffering. The game gets that across pretty well, especially for Sanada's ending. It's easily the darkest Warriors game. Historically they are summed up with an anecdote that basically says Oda's solution was to kill, Hideyoshi's solution was to imprison and Ieyasu's was to wait and see (his patience was legendary, including for his own rise to power).

You should definitely play Samurai Warriors 2 That’s the DEFINITIVE Samurai Warriors experience on PS2 the base game and Xtreme Legends/Empires expansion The voice acting, character development, story modes of every character, the in game AND CGI cutscenes. . . PERFECT!

I think the biggest difference is that battles in Samurai Warriors tend to stick to the history, which is why Yukimura's lord dies so early. That's when he dies historically. Before I played this game I was a huge nerd about this era of Japan, so the game was amazing, seeing all these characters I had read about come to life. To this day is one of my all time favorites.

You should revisit this with Samurai Warriors 1 XL. Combining the discs, you can play the story with all the XL bonuses, like playable Tadakatsu and Ina.

Keiji and Hanzo are my go to guys. Miyamoto MusashiI's history is so interesting. Hanzo was a badass in history as well.

Tadakatsu Honda is pretty much the "Lu Bu" of the Sengoku Period aka Samurai Warriors.

I've been waiting for this video! I look forward to your viedos about the SW cast. On a side note: This is my favorite SW game.

warriors orochi is a spinoff of dynasty warriors 5 and samurai warriors 2 , so you will meet a lot of new characters and thats that you already know will have another look.

Recently binged all of your DW character videos because I discovered your channel last week. I started off with SW but later got into DW and loved it and I can agree the first entry in SW was very, very rough but it gets better! I hope you come to really love these games and I look forward to possible character vids. ^O^

I really enjoyed how even your created character had a story and how some of the stories and battles had alternative endings based on certain objectives. I still think that aspect makes it better than a lot of future entries. Same thing with dynasty warriors 4 and how it had alternative routes based on what battles you did or didn't do. Like, at Guan Du for Cao Cao if you didn't defeat Lu Bu and Liu Bei they show up on Yuan Shaos side and the battle gets extremely difficult.

Solid video, awesome work!

hope you eventuallyget to Spirit of the Sanada. Thou I grew up with more DW game, SotS is my favorite warriors game of all time.

This was a fun game, the only thing I hated was the castle parts. Im excited to see you go throught the rest of the games, especially the orochi series. If you get the xtreme legends spin off of this game, youll get a playable Tadakatsu as well as Yoshimoto Imagawa and Hideyoshi

Ty for another amazing video

Samurai warriors is awesome, it’s more emotional than dynasty warriors in my opinion but the story is great

DW fan trying out SW interesting Awesome video !

Cant wait to see what you think about WO

It's the best game in terms of scenery and combat mechanics. At that time we didn't kill huge mobs, which allowed the moveset to be more organic and dynamic. There were some unique intuitive and challenging animations hidden in the characters. After they decided to use a range attack to stab an entire block, the latest games became the famous button mashing. Generic spinning attacks, explosions, burst effects. It got sickening. The way to explore the castles mode in the first game was cool, notice that they are not giant square corridors, there was furniture and structure on the walls, more organic elements and a little bit of interaction. Like bunch of traps, door tricks, secret passages. The only game that managed to be fun and not so static is Dynasty Warriors 6. It had more features like buttons, ladders, machines, towers, rain of arrows, grabs... in short. I would like Koei to reflect on the mistakes that are repeated and produce the next game with dynamic combat, and without more generic content.

Escort missions in musou games are... definitely one of the things ever. I, however, noticed something - escorted NPCs tend to bog down by targetting enemies mostly if they get engaged by an officer - this doesn't necessarily mean they and the enemy officer fight directly, only that that officer's forces and escortee start fighting. It often happens when fights begin offscreen. Escortees also tend to bog down around the various unnamed Captains, like Reserve and Defense Captains. Lastly, EVERYONE - who isn't tied up in off-screen combat mechanics - seem to move much more efficiently when off-screen. The thing common to, I think, all musou games, is that, if you KO the enemy unit's main officer, his unit is basically done - *maybe* outside of extreme circumstances, leftover troops aren't going to win any off-screen fight, and sub-officers turn tail and go leave the map when their commander is defeated. When helping NPCs, the target priority is usually: 1) officers actually fighting that NPC 2) commanding officer(s) responsible for troops attacking that NPC (PS2 DW games had it a bit easier, because EVERY enemy had the full "ID and health" display in upper-left corner) 3) nearby checkpoint/stronghold. Look at the minimap, from where does the red blob come forth. Samurai Warriors games, as DW, all basically are covering the same history period in all installments. Things that vary is the level of focus on characterization and which characters, and how, have their storyline depart from what happened in reality (the lower route of Yukimura in SW1 is mostly how it went in real life, except death of Shingen is a bit of a mystery IRL, and it being credited to Hattori Hanzo is made up for dramatism) Question: did you manage to actually access the final stage of Saika Magoichi?

Need to play with Xtreme legends to get the full experience and all playable characters. You will understand who Takatsu is.

SW1 only has ONE flaw. . . LEVEL SCALING! It’s crazy how the difficulty spikes regardless of of level/difficulty just because the character you’re using gets stronger (luckily the Xtreme legends expansion fixes this) But essentially the story of Samurai Warriors is just a LOOSE retelling of the events of the Sengoku period of feudal Japan Also in the base version of SW1 Tadakatsu didn’t get a player model and had a generic moveset, BUT historically he’s the Japanese equivalent of Lu Bu (though with Keiji existing, you pretty much have TWO “boss” characters that essentially act as the Samurai equivalent of Lu Bu) They also fixed this in SW Xtreme Legends expansion by giving him an actual design and moveset (which he uses for the rest of the series)

My favorite character was kid Masamune, really hate that they just deleted that whole moveset from history after this game. I really liked SW1's dark tone, which I think fits the setting a lot better than what they did later. SW2 was a downgrade in a lot of ways in my opinion, despite it often being hailed as the best of the series.

I think you are going to love Nobunaga in WO, he is much more heroic but also shows his dark side at times

Never played this series because I’m not super interested in feudal japan but this game does seem good

I haven't commented on one of your videos in a hot minute but I will say this until you finally do it: play the Xtreme Legends games. Combine them with the original games. They're disc based DLC for PS2 games. Like, you are doing yourself a disservice by not playing Xtreme Legends, especially the SW games. All of the Xtrmeme Legends games add characters in SW. you slept on my girls No and Okuni. And SW1XL explains Tadakatsu. and Warriors Orochi pairs off leaders from SW and DW, specifically WO3.

Kunoichi was one of my favourites too. Shame her design and personality got butchered later on.

What does Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors have in common? Three standout leaders, especially two ruthless visionaries who share the same facial hair Spear wielding franchise players One eyed warriors Badass one man armies Sisters who are married other lords and have to fight their siblings Foppish lords who have to beaten in order for one of the lords to make it to the big time Notable battles Femme fatales Dudes calling themselves the God of War

SW2 was alot better too me.. i feel like that would be a better experience and i cant wait for the Warriors Orochi gameplay lol

Create an officer is awesome

You should really play Samurai Warriors - Spirit of Sanada, it's based off of 4 but does a great job at telling a dramatic narrative that help you better process what the hell is going on since you'll have a story, context and stuff to care about.

anyone have the link to download this game? i would like to play it

Xtreme legends adds Honda and a few others incl unique npc models for imagawa

I prefer the open battlefield sandbox style over the big arrow telling you where to go style of samurai warriors games I’ve played and some of the later DW games. It was my biggest complaint until DW9.

does anyone know how to play this on pc with ps2 emulator

The Samurai Warriors lore was very confusing to me also. But it was mainly the Warring States period that was hard to digest, compared to the Three Kingdoms lore. Funny enough, it was the Capcom equivalent "Sengoku Basara", that helped me digest the Warring States era more readily. Side note: the fact that women in these games always have to look like they're 18, despite their age is ALWAYS disorienting.

I watched the top 20 dw songs and oriental rush wasn’t on the list💀

Best sw ever. Good music fight and story. Its sad on new sw games troops are so useless story is meh and combat its so mucb easier and nonsense.

pleas first play Samurai Warriors 2 then play the Warriors Orochi 1, if you start with WO1 you will have some characters that you are not fomilier with on SW side also if you dive in to history lore of each characters in SW games you will find some intresthing things, in my opinion SW is better then DW but all fall apart when SW5 got released, that stupid game should never existed, also Warriors Oorochi , THE BEST

The character designs are pretty bad compared to DW

I've been waiting for this video! I look forward to your viedos about the SW cast. On a side note: This is my favorite SW game.