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Nov. 1st, 2011 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsSo Warriors Orochi 3 is shaping up to be quite interesting. It's actually gonna use the character designs as of DW7 and SW3. It will have everyone from both those games, as well as the XL versions. So, yes, even the new Guo Jia and Wang Yi from the upcoming DW7: XL. But, it doesn't mention if it will have the WO specific characters from the previous games, or the characters that haven't shown up in the latest iterations of DW (Zuo Ci) or SW (Musashi, Kojiro, and Goemon). I will be quite put out if they don't have Kojiro, he's one of my favorites.
But, the latest news is that there are three guest characters. Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden, which kinda makes sense since one of his secret costumes from the last NG was Zhao Yun's DW6 outfit. (wait, are they made by the same company? I thought NG was Tecmo and the Warriors series were Koei? Did NG move to Koei? Do Koei and Tecmo share the same parent company?) Then there's Achilles from Warriors of Troy, and Joan of Arc from Bladestorm: THYW. But alas, its only those two from those games. I don't mind it as much with the Warriors of Troy, because the character designs weren't that great. But Bladestorm had several interesting designs! Although I guess Edward looked like a young, clean shaven version of Nobunaga, while Imari looks like a cross between Oichi and Kotaro Fuma.
It would be awesome if it was from all their games, but the game already has 120 characters already (adding BS and Troy would have it at 160!). I guess that's 55 from the DW series and 40 from the SW series, confirmed. There's the three aforementioned guest characters, and the game already has 3 new characters- Kaguya, Shuten Doji, and Ne Zha. So that's 101. Leaving 19 character slots. WO2 had 10 game specific characters characters (Da Ji, Fu Xi, Himiko, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Nu Wa, Orochi, Shin Orochi, Sun Wukong, Taigong Wang, and Taira no Kiyomori). So with the missing characters from DW and SW, that's 14 right there. Meaning there's at least 5 new characters. I suppose there could be more new characters, and the game might not have some of the cut characters, but that seems silly, why would you create even more characters when you have so many not in yet?
But, the latest news is that there are three guest characters. Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden, which kinda makes sense since one of his secret costumes from the last NG was Zhao Yun's DW6 outfit. (wait, are they made by the same company? I thought NG was Tecmo and the Warriors series were Koei? Did NG move to Koei? Do Koei and Tecmo share the same parent company?) Then there's Achilles from Warriors of Troy, and Joan of Arc from Bladestorm: THYW. But alas, its only those two from those games. I don't mind it as much with the Warriors of Troy, because the character designs weren't that great. But Bladestorm had several interesting designs! Although I guess Edward looked like a young, clean shaven version of Nobunaga, while Imari looks like a cross between Oichi and Kotaro Fuma.
It would be awesome if it was from all their games, but the game already has 120 characters already (adding BS and Troy would have it at 160!). I guess that's 55 from the DW series and 40 from the SW series, confirmed. There's the three aforementioned guest characters, and the game already has 3 new characters- Kaguya, Shuten Doji, and Ne Zha. So that's 101. Leaving 19 character slots. WO2 had 10 game specific characters characters (Da Ji, Fu Xi, Himiko, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Nu Wa, Orochi, Shin Orochi, Sun Wukong, Taigong Wang, and Taira no Kiyomori). So with the missing characters from DW and SW, that's 14 right there. Meaning there's at least 5 new characters. I suppose there could be more new characters, and the game might not have some of the cut characters, but that seems silly, why would you create even more characters when you have so many not in yet?
