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I like the vast majority of your reviews because you know what you like and write about it enthusiastically. I’ve got all kinds of weird Japanese games either in my library or on my wishlist that I’ll probably never find the time to play, and this is all your fault. Your sheer love for many of the oddball games you cover shines through, but that has not been the case for here. Maybe it’s because the game was somewhat of a disappointment, but that didn’t translate this time around. The entire review has an unfortunate stiffness not often present in other reviews.

There’s good lines that build good points, such as dismissing the forces you fight as scouting groups rather than the entire armies you used to fight, or how you need to scavenge and hunt down crafting items in the new open world now rather than earn them through victories. It’s still an argument well made; that Dynasty Warriors have failed to take the grand battles epics and find a way to transition them to an open world. Game sounds like a downer, and you sometimes sound like you'd rather be talking about something else.

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If I'm being honest, it wasn't fun to write either as I was honestly looking forward to Dynasty Warriors 9 and it let me down. I'm never good with criticism and I think this really shone through here. Thanks for highlighting it. I'm gonna try to think of more interesting ways to be negative in the future.

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It's not always easy, putting the boot in. Especially when you have high hopes for the very thing you have to tear down.

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I was looking forward to this game and decided to watch some Youtube footage to see how it would portray its open world. This review documents what I saw to the T. This looks like such a terrible and uninspiring game when it could have been the best Dynasty Warriors game ever. It kind of makes you wonder how a formula that should have been a surefire home run turned out to be such a whiff.

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