
The aforementioned scenic areas aren’t to be ignored either after scaling up a mountain you get a real sense of achievement as you gaze over the world. But not overwhelmingly so - it’s cleverly broken up with scenic areas, hideaways, and the like, and there are fortunately waypoints throughout the map that allow for fast travel (although some fast travel points require you to walk up to and click on them, which is slightly annoying when you’re charging through).

These side quests are also stackable, so you can complete a series of them and then turn them in all at once, instead of running back and forth retreading old ground.

Dynasty Warriors 9 takes a proper open world approach instead, littering the world with side quests. The stale formula that we've seen so many times has been re-examined and replaced with something the series has been crying out for - an open world.ĭynasty Warriors games have always been fairly open, but for the most part players have been channelled down a particular route. Now, if you’re like me, then you’ve played at least a few of the Dynasty Warrior games and crushed that damn Yellow Turban Rebellion several times over already, so why would you return yet again to the fray? Well, arguably the biggest reason is that developer Omega Force has taken its own rule book and rewritten it, finally bringing the series up to the modern age.

At the start of the game, the player can choose a character from one of these three main factions and then embark on their quest line (and later on into the game you can pick from a more diverse cast of characters as new ones are introduced).

By Patrick Day-Childs, posted on 13 February 2018 / 4,133 Viewsĭynasty Warriors 9 takes place, like many of the previous games in the series, during the Battles of the Three Kingdoms - a 60+ year period in Chinese history when the country was divided into three competing states - Wei, Shu, and Wu.
