![]() ![]() ![]() By smacking enemies, or getting smacked by them, you can also power up a Musou gauge (fun fact: Musou is Japanese for ‘warrior’) which allows you to unleash a super attack. You have your basic light and heavy attacks, as well as Trigger attacks which allow you to launch foes in the air, knock them down or stun them. DW9 is the epitome of a mindless hack ‘n’ slash, which wouldn’t necessarily have to be a negative as that sort of thing can often be enjoyable, but despite the fact the developers have obviously had a few cracks at the genre, it is still incredibly mediocre in terms of gameplay. While the narrative is complex (I think), the gameplay is the very antithesis of that. For anyone brave enough to try and follow the narrative, it is made much more enjoyable by the terribly cheesy English dubovers, which one can only hope was intentional on the part of the developers. While this is obviously a weakness of my Anglophone ears and no fault on the part of the developers, characters are introduced with such frequency and so haphazardly that I quickly became lost in a quagmire of Xiaoxiaos and Lu Bus. There are many, many characters in DW9, with each of their names more bizarre and weirdly pronounced purely based on its English spelling than the last. For all its seriousness, DW9’s story plays out a lot like a Japanese soap opera, and is…impossible to follow. ![]()
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