Most Koei fans will tell you that Warriors Orochi was a pretty awesome game, and with it fusing Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors into one big title, you'd think that was going to be the perfect sendoff for Koei's last-gen hack n' slash ventures. Not so, apparently, since Warriors Orochi 2: Rebirth of the Demon Lord has been announced.
The game will include all the new playable characters from Samurai Warriors: XL and, for those of you who can remember about eight million sequels back, DW3's Fu Xi and Nu Wa will also be included. In addition to that, new stages, and new modes Dramatic Mode, Survival Mode and Versus Mode will make their way into the game.
The Japanese PS2 release will hit Japan on April 3rd. This will inevitably make its way overseas and I expect to hear about an Xbox 360 release sometime down the line as well. All I can say for now is that I was pretty stupid not expecting Orochi to be the birth of a franchise, rather than a sendoff for anything. In fact, I'm pretty sure this announcement qualifies as self parody on the part of Koei.
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8:12 PM on 01.30.2008
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For starters, there will be more rebirths. Of Demon Lords, no less!
Also, I heard that Warriors Orochi was the last game to use the old DW engine; maybe we get a revamped and retooled Renbu system like in 6 or (gasp) a new engine for a different franchise?
Also, who the hell is Nu Wa?
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PwnDaddy: Nu Wa and Fu Xi are Chinese mythological characters. They were hidden characters in Dynasty Warriors 3, but only appeared as possible create-a-warriors in DW4, after which point they disappeared completely.
Say, there wouldn't happen to be an Officer Creation Mode in DW6, now would there.....?
Jim....i love you HARD
My main concern with this game is that they improve upon the dismal co-op in the first game. Having the second player play a palette-swapped identical team turned my wife away from the game entirely, and I admit it was pretty crappy. If each player can have their own unique characters then I will be happy.
Of course, I'm buying it either way, because I am Koei's bitch.
Dynasty Warriors 6 in less than two weeks,
Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends in a month or so,
Recently announced Dynasty Warriors BOW for the Wii,
and now Warriors Orochi 2!
The Warriors goodness continues! Also Lu Bu.
and Nu Wa/Fu Xi returns? that's already an auto win.
and Nu Wa/Fu Xi returns? that's already an auto win.
and Nu Wa/Fu Xi returns? that's already an auto win.
Seeing Jim's excitement for these games all over Dtoid always makes me happy :)