Status ElizabethTheWicked Sep 4, 2024
i've been replaying this recently after three years away and it strikes me what a shame it is how the story decays. warriors games usually have an incoherent mess for a story that tries to cover decades of battles and stalemates in a few stages. but this one actually started a coherent narrative and underdog story about a brash idiot …
Read morei've been replaying this recently after three years away and it strikes me what a shame it is how the story decays. warriors games usually have an incoherent mess for a story that tries to cover decades of battles and stalemates in a few stages. but this one actually started a coherent narrative and underdog story about a brash idiot that failed and struggled and fought despite impossible odds. it was exciting to control nobunaga as he triumphed. but then as it covers his continued rise to power, it gets thinner and further apart, the time skips get bigger and the story makes less and less sense. the mechanics at the core of this game were really solid but they phoned it in bad with the citadel mode. it's just trash. it's the worst side mode of any of these games. they could have really turned this game into something worthwhile and they just fumbled it.
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