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geebsWO blather- So after mentioning how awesome Xu Shu was, I thought I'd make an updated list of my top 10 favorite WO characters.
1) Xu Shu- I know, maybe its new character syndrome, but he is pretty awesome. I mean, even without the cheesy r1, he's still really cool. He has a great moveset, the rapier and hook dart looks really cool. If I have any complaints about any of it, its his running attack. He goes airborne on it, which means he can't chain his normal combos off of it like other characters can. That, and if you're charging towards a crowd of mooks, he'll basically just fly over the majority of them. (On the other hand though, its fine against officers because you can use it to knock them in the air and air combo them to death.) Plus he has a really cool musou, a la Wesker's hyper in UMvC3, the whole zig zagging back and forth slashing in hyperspeed. The fact that you can just throw out R1 arrow rains and then do all of this other stuff is just gravy.
I also love his character design, especially in Wei colors. The hooded cloak makes him look like an Assassin's creed character. In the game, he's in the Shu faction, but historically, he started in Shu, but then was forced into Wei's service. Still, I hear in DW8, he willingly joins Wei's service. Between him, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Sima Yi, Wei had some awesome strategists. I can't see how anyone not think Wei is the best- they have the coolest warriors and strategist, and the best leader.
2) Ginchiyo Tachibana- lightning girl herself. She's a beast. She has a great and varied moveset, being an SW "normal" type, with awesome moves at c5, c6, and c8 and c9. c9 is a good starter, as not only will that cause lightning bolts to start dropping, it will charge her sword, beefing up her other combos. She also has a really great R1 with elemental activation, which serves as a good panic button- get in trouble, just whip it out and it will auto-refill her to full automatically if she has absorb and osmosis. I mean, I can chaos "speed is of the essence" with her no problem at all. She also has an amusing personality.
3) Mitsuhide Akechi- Like Ginchiyo, he's a SW "normal" type, so he has a whole bunch of different and cool looking charges, and he has a really good R1 with elemental activation, so again, it serves as a good panic button to refill him to full when he has absorb and osmosis. Plus, I like that he starts out as Oda's bad-ass right hand man, like his personal reaper (reaper was his name in Devil Kings, which his appropriate), taking out anyone who stands in his master's way. And he has a cute daughter.
4) Zhong Hui- Ida know some people don't like his moveset because its "unrealistic", but I like the floating swords and him doing the whole flying torpedo thing. But yeah, his personality is great, I love that smug arrogance, bragging about his special training. I also like his whole, "You must have had some sort of special training" that he spouts out whenever he gets beaten or someone does better than him.
5) Xiahou Dun, Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao- My Wei warriors 3. These guys just drip bad-assedness. I'm sad they don't have a unique triple attack together. And, they all use different weapon types (Xiahou Dun the Podao, Xu Huang the big-ass Axe, and Zhang Liao with the twin axes) with their own unique style. Heh, and I think you could even do an elemental theme with them. Xiahou Dun is obviously fire, what with his c3 and c6 being very fiery and explosive, Xu Huang would be earth, what with the giant earth strike he does for his musou, and Zhang Liao air, what with his rushing musou attack. All they need is someone to be water.
6) Kojiro Sasaki and Kotaro Fuma: I think they're really cool character designs, very Exalted Abyssal-ish in nature, like an undead samurai and ninja. I first noticed this pairing in SW, where one of the boards had them together going after you. They just have this scary, demonic aura about them, and they certainly revel in killing and causing chaos. In the vanilla version of the game, I couldn't think of anyone who matches them to be their third, but now I'm thinking Tamamo might work. She's got a similar aura of demonic-ness and death.
7) Lu Bu- C'mon. "It's.. it's.. Lu Bu!" The big bad-ass of DW himself. I'm sorry, I think he's more bad-ass than Honda or Keiji. At the very least, I think he has a way better moveset.
8) Zhou Tai- I may think the Wu are a bunch of low-class river people, but they do have cool guys like him at least. I mean, the silent bad-ass in black armor with the iaijutsu-ish fighting style? He just oozes bad-assedness.
9) Wang Yi- Again, Wei just has all the coolest people. This girl is easily the most bad-ass of the DW characters. Plus, I like Ma Chao and all (he just barely got edged off this list) but he's always babbling about his spear of justice, and since they're nemeses, I like using her to shut him up. I think her story also points out the hypocrisy of the Shu (heh, can you tell which faction is my favorite, given how much I badmouth the Wu and Shu). Its like, Ma Chao is always carrying on about wanting revenge on Cao Cao, but what about what he and his people did to her family. At least she's honest about it being revenge.
10) Masamune Date- I wish his moveset was a little better, but c'mon, he uses a katana and twin pistols, that's awesome! He does have a great look too, as well as a hilarious personality. He has some great lines.
Other comments, I do like all the Ninja Gaiden folks are in here now- Hayabusa, Kasumi, Ayane, Rachel, and Momiji. And Sophitia from Soul Calibur is definitely someone who fits well into the series.
I do like the new boss characters too. Hundun is a monster. Literally, he's as tall as Gyuki, and looks like this 4 armed, 4 winged demon creature. His R1 lets him take flight and rain down death on the hapless. Tamamo, as I mentioned before, has this cool demonic aura, and her moveset is really good. She has some gaps in her defense, but if you know those and protect them from being exploited, she's unstoppable.
Her upgraded form, Kyubi, is no less bad-ass. Like her c4 automatically hits 700 times, so she'll always be activating alacrity when you pull that off. Her air r1 makes her invincible, and her ground r1 summons a PC officer to fight for you. Normally one of the closest enemy PC officers, but if there are none, a clone of one of the people on your team. But yeah, I guess if you also press down on the d-pad to make your team active all at once, doing her R1 gives you an additional 4th person to fight?
1) Xu Shu- I know, maybe its new character syndrome, but he is pretty awesome. I mean, even without the cheesy r1, he's still really cool. He has a great moveset, the rapier and hook dart looks really cool. If I have any complaints about any of it, its his running attack. He goes airborne on it, which means he can't chain his normal combos off of it like other characters can. That, and if you're charging towards a crowd of mooks, he'll basically just fly over the majority of them. (On the other hand though, its fine against officers because you can use it to knock them in the air and air combo them to death.) Plus he has a really cool musou, a la Wesker's hyper in UMvC3, the whole zig zagging back and forth slashing in hyperspeed. The fact that you can just throw out R1 arrow rains and then do all of this other stuff is just gravy.
I also love his character design, especially in Wei colors. The hooded cloak makes him look like an Assassin's creed character. In the game, he's in the Shu faction, but historically, he started in Shu, but then was forced into Wei's service. Still, I hear in DW8, he willingly joins Wei's service. Between him, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Sima Yi, Wei had some awesome strategists. I can't see how anyone not think Wei is the best- they have the coolest warriors and strategist, and the best leader.
2) Ginchiyo Tachibana- lightning girl herself. She's a beast. She has a great and varied moveset, being an SW "normal" type, with awesome moves at c5, c6, and c8 and c9. c9 is a good starter, as not only will that cause lightning bolts to start dropping, it will charge her sword, beefing up her other combos. She also has a really great R1 with elemental activation, which serves as a good panic button- get in trouble, just whip it out and it will auto-refill her to full automatically if she has absorb and osmosis. I mean, I can chaos "speed is of the essence" with her no problem at all. She also has an amusing personality.
3) Mitsuhide Akechi- Like Ginchiyo, he's a SW "normal" type, so he has a whole bunch of different and cool looking charges, and he has a really good R1 with elemental activation, so again, it serves as a good panic button to refill him to full when he has absorb and osmosis. Plus, I like that he starts out as Oda's bad-ass right hand man, like his personal reaper (reaper was his name in Devil Kings, which his appropriate), taking out anyone who stands in his master's way. And he has a cute daughter.
4) Zhong Hui- Ida know some people don't like his moveset because its "unrealistic", but I like the floating swords and him doing the whole flying torpedo thing. But yeah, his personality is great, I love that smug arrogance, bragging about his special training. I also like his whole, "You must have had some sort of special training" that he spouts out whenever he gets beaten or someone does better than him.
5) Xiahou Dun, Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao- My Wei warriors 3. These guys just drip bad-assedness. I'm sad they don't have a unique triple attack together. And, they all use different weapon types (Xiahou Dun the Podao, Xu Huang the big-ass Axe, and Zhang Liao with the twin axes) with their own unique style. Heh, and I think you could even do an elemental theme with them. Xiahou Dun is obviously fire, what with his c3 and c6 being very fiery and explosive, Xu Huang would be earth, what with the giant earth strike he does for his musou, and Zhang Liao air, what with his rushing musou attack. All they need is someone to be water.
6) Kojiro Sasaki and Kotaro Fuma: I think they're really cool character designs, very Exalted Abyssal-ish in nature, like an undead samurai and ninja. I first noticed this pairing in SW, where one of the boards had them together going after you. They just have this scary, demonic aura about them, and they certainly revel in killing and causing chaos. In the vanilla version of the game, I couldn't think of anyone who matches them to be their third, but now I'm thinking Tamamo might work. She's got a similar aura of demonic-ness and death.
7) Lu Bu- C'mon. "It's.. it's.. Lu Bu!" The big bad-ass of DW himself. I'm sorry, I think he's more bad-ass than Honda or Keiji. At the very least, I think he has a way better moveset.
8) Zhou Tai- I may think the Wu are a bunch of low-class river people, but they do have cool guys like him at least. I mean, the silent bad-ass in black armor with the iaijutsu-ish fighting style? He just oozes bad-assedness.
9) Wang Yi- Again, Wei just has all the coolest people. This girl is easily the most bad-ass of the DW characters. Plus, I like Ma Chao and all (he just barely got edged off this list) but he's always babbling about his spear of justice, and since they're nemeses, I like using her to shut him up. I think her story also points out the hypocrisy of the Shu (heh, can you tell which faction is my favorite, given how much I badmouth the Wu and Shu). Its like, Ma Chao is always carrying on about wanting revenge on Cao Cao, but what about what he and his people did to her family. At least she's honest about it being revenge.
10) Masamune Date- I wish his moveset was a little better, but c'mon, he uses a katana and twin pistols, that's awesome! He does have a great look too, as well as a hilarious personality. He has some great lines.
Other comments, I do like all the Ninja Gaiden folks are in here now- Hayabusa, Kasumi, Ayane, Rachel, and Momiji. And Sophitia from Soul Calibur is definitely someone who fits well into the series.
I do like the new boss characters too. Hundun is a monster. Literally, he's as tall as Gyuki, and looks like this 4 armed, 4 winged demon creature. His R1 lets him take flight and rain down death on the hapless. Tamamo, as I mentioned before, has this cool demonic aura, and her moveset is really good. She has some gaps in her defense, but if you know those and protect them from being exploited, she's unstoppable.
Her upgraded form, Kyubi, is no less bad-ass. Like her c4 automatically hits 700 times, so she'll always be activating alacrity when you pull that off. Her air r1 makes her invincible, and her ground r1 summons a PC officer to fight for you. Normally one of the closest enemy PC officers, but if there are none, a clone of one of the people on your team. But yeah, I guess if you also press down on the d-pad to make your team active all at once, doing her R1 gives you an additional 4th person to fight?
