This time, Tecmo Koei have made a game that is not a sequel, or a remaster, or an expansion, but some strange hybrid in between with a more personal narrative that focuses on individual generals instead of the larger political machinations of Feudal Japan. It’s worth noting that for folks who don’t speak or understand Japanese, the narrative is hard to understand there are no voice overs other than the originals, and reading subtitles in the middle of a battle is extraordinarily counter-intuitive to the flow of Musou games. Fortunately, One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 (a game which I’m not into but only for lack of interest in One Piece) and Samurai Warriors 4-II break the cycle, and possibly set a good precedent for future Warriors releases on the PC. What they haven’t seemed to grasp until recently is how to handle a proper PC port up to this point, most of the Musou games released on PC have been shoddy messes, ports of the last-gen version of a game which didn’t even have contextual button support (plugging in a controller and playing the game that way still displayed keyboard prompts). Less than a year after Samurai Warriors 4’s release, and with roughly half a dozen other games in between it and Samurai Warriors 4-II, the Warriors developer well understands development cycles. Let it not be said that Tecmo Koei doesn’t know how to work a production pipeline.
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