DYNASTY WARRIORS 9

I don't understand the hate, but the game is actually pretty good. I invested 300+ hours on this game without using Fast Travel and I find the open world very relaxing. I do agree a little bit on the Open World setting to be empty, but I don't find it bad. If you want to give this game a shot, I recommend you to play your favorite Officer from the start to the end. Here's my full review below:
Combat
- Obviously, DW9 combat is WAY better than the awful Rembu System in DW6. I've experimented a lot with various items, but I find the Fine Bag of Wind, Gold Crown, Mirror of Transformation and Pike of Judgement to be the best. The combat is fast paced, intense and fun. However, I find Hard difficulty easy, so I crank it to Ultimate after leveling my characters 10 levels above the enemy, and equipped with EX Weapons.
- The Flow and Reactive attack system is so engaging, it compensates the cloned move sets. I never expected how much fun playing as Sun Ce and Wen Yang with the bad weapon choices Koei Tecmo gave them.
Open World Traversal
- In my perspective, the main goal of the Open World system is to relax, relieve the stress of the fighting, and travel as you see fit. The game is NOT forcing you to manually travel every time you need to reach the next objective. All you need to do is to travel and discover the location, I don't get the hate. It's not that bad.
- Most of my play time was travelling by manually or auto-run with a horse, it was relaxing.
- Too bad there are not enough Towns and Peasants in this game to explore or discover, and that's my only complain about the Open World map.
- The Open World causes the Battle of Chibi to be slightly broken. Ready your Exploding Arrows and prepare on defeating Cao Cao in the water lmao
Content
- In Story Mode, you play as the Officer beginning with their service to the Kingdom up until to the end when they died or retire. That means for example, you play as Liu Bei from Battle of Yellow Turbans to the Battle of Yi Ling, that's long.
- Side Missions' battle for some reason, are fixated in 2-3 different locations outside the City, I find it annoying but it kinda works.
- Officers level up so fast on higher difficulties, it becomes easier when you get the hang of it.
- Hunting is fun, but the Bow camera sensitivity is a bit broken.
- Music Playlist is a bit broken, when I tried to reset the playlist to default, it plays the playlist again.
- Needs more Side Missions, but its alright I guess.
- It lacks Legacy costumes, too bad.
Graphics
- I don't care much about the graphics, I find the game beautiful.
Verdict:
To be honest, this is now my 2nd favorite Dynasty Warriors game, 1st place was DW8 and 3rd was DW5. As a hardcore Dynasty Warriors fan, I recommend everyone to play this game and invest your time with your favorite character, ignore the bad reviews saying the game is boring.
I give this game a 8.5/10. I gave DW6 a 7/10, and that means this game is way more fun.

Game got way over hated imo, it was the first time (& now only time) KT did a open world like this for DW & what they did with what they had is good, all i can say is play it for yourself & think yourself bc i didn't get DW9 for years bc of what others said & i regret it.

Its def the worst dynasty warriors game i have played but its still fun bc its dynasty warriors

I love it, and I feel that the game has been unfairly judged by many reviewers in the past. Yes, there were initial complaints about frame rate drops, slow-loading textures, and a supposedly bland open world. However, many of these issues have been addressed with patches, and in my experience, they’re no longer problems at all.
The game was impacted by those negative reviews, which seemed to focus on minor imperfections more than the game's overall. It feels like some reviewers were nitpicking every small detail rather than appreciating the core of what makes Dynasty Warriors so enjoyable. Personally, I’ve had a smooth and enjoyable experience throughout, without encountering the technical problems that were originally highlighted.
I’m not even a huge fan of the Dynasty Warriors franchise, but I am a geek when it comes to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I’ve read it more than twice, and I can confidently say that this game delivers a decent experience. While the hack-and-slash combat is as satisfying as ever, the game does a good job of giving players a sense of the warfare, and legendary characters of that era.
It’s sad to see how much sway these negative opinions have, Back in the day, we played video games because we loved the experience not because we judged them based on someone else’s opinion or technical minutiae. I wish more players would give it a chance.

I honestly can tell why some people dont like this game. They say that its boring. It has performance issues and that they dont like the open world mechanic to it and that it shoudve been the open yet closed maps that the previous games were like.
I have played the trial and played the battles. And Honestly? The battles are actually enjoyable. The different combat mechanics, character quotes during musou and the character on character dialogue interactions during battle are pretty good. So far though I have not encountered any performance issues (Likely they were patched or I just got lucky.) I havent tried the campaign yet as I havent bought it. I think this game is alright but probably wait for a discount as I think the current price is a little too steep. That or I might not be looking in the right area for it.

Great game! The open world is well done. As an officer you choose whether you want to "simulate" additional battle fields within a campaign (doing optional campaign quests, or even side quests) to reduce the difficulty of the main campaign quest. You may as well just do the main one. It's up to the player to decide the amount of side battle fields and hence this choice combined with an open world gives a nice feeling of "simulating" this era in a musou style! And I rly can't complain about weapon variety. It's great to be able to decide the weapon of your choice. Sticking to your officers main weapon nostalgia is also possible ;) The story is splendidly written and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is amazingly delivered! Also: Chinese Voiceover!!!
My verdict: 9/10, buy it on sale. Not sure if I would pay full price, but everything under 30€? Gladly! :)

Fantastic cleaning game. (Power washer fans will love this as it's a similar game disguised as a war game.)
When you compare this to masterpieces like Warriors Orochi 3 or Fate/Samurai Remnant, it lacks polish and content for the mechanics that make it unique, but when looking at it as an action cleaning game of today, it's incredible.
Large simulated battles, VA story that has comical cutscenes, freedom to approach objectives, lots of characters and items to grind. Local and online co-op for the open world. I hope more games take the unique aspects of this and continue to improve it for the musou genre.
It's insane that this game has local co-op on PC. If you have someone to play it with, it's a lot of fun to just roam around and fight stuff. This game doesn't force you into battles; instead, it treats fights like a cleaning game. You know that you will be able to clean up all of the red dots on the map, and it's satisfying when you do.