Arslan: The Warriors Of Legend Review – Dynasty Warriors Lite

<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m going to be honest&colon; I had actually no idea what game I was getting when my editor told me that I was to review this game&period; I knew the title&comma; <em>Arslan&colon; The Warriors of Legend<&sol;em>&comma; and that it was for my Xbox One&semi; I knew absolutely nothing else&period; I was happy to see some very anime inspired artwork when I started the game&comma; and even more excited to see Koei Tecmo&&num;8217&semi;s name flash on the screen after the gorgeous wallpaper&period; Once I saw that logo&comma; I knew exactly what I was in for&period; Now I&&num;8217&semi;m not an expert in these hack an slash type of games&comma; but I do enjoy them from time to time&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not that guy who unlocks everything for each character and each weapon&comma; I just enjoy swinging a spear and hurling hundreds of enemies to their doom with one attack&period; I also knew that I would get lost on the map and lose campaigns if they were timed&period; Thankfully they weren&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; so I enjoyed <em>Arslan<&sol;em> a bit more than other Koei Tecmo games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;99141" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-99141" style&equals;"width&colon; 738px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-99141 " src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;04004648&sol;461825&lowbar;scr5&lowbar;a&period;png" alt&equals;"Arslan 1" width&equals;"738" height&equals;"415" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-99141" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Arslan&colon; The Warriors Of Legend&comma; Koei Tecmo&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The game has a pretty hum drum story&comma; based on a Japanese fantasy novel set that began in 1986&period; You start off in a huge battle playing as young prince Arslan&comma; who is only fourteen years old&period; He learned how fight at the young age of eleven&comma; trained by the best to be the best&period; During this training you learn the control scheme&comma; which is fairly easy&period; &&num;8220&semi;X&&num;8221&semi; is normal attack&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Y&&num;8221&semi; is special attack&comma; &&num;8220&semi;A&&num;8221&semi; is jump&comma; &&num;8220&semi;B&&num;8221&semi; is special move&comma; &&num;8220&semi;RB&&num;8221&semi; is a special attack that begins a huge chain combo&comma; and &&num;8220&semi;LB&&num;8221&semi; is block&period; Pretty simple&comma; right&quest; I think so&period; Anyway&comma; back to the story&period; Basically&comma; something horrible happens during this battle that changes this young prince&&num;8217&semi;s life forever&period; After the battle&comma; he finds himself kingdom-less&comma; army-less&comma; and most likely parent-less&period; Even alone&comma; he must find a way to gather forces and regain control of his lost kingdom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In battle you get to ride a horse a lot&comma; which helps getting from destination to destination&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s is pretty useless in battle&period; There were scenarios when I had to kill a certain general&comma; and seeing as the game has no &&num;8220&semi;lock on&&num;8221&semi; option&comma; killing them on a horse was a tough feat&period; You have to keep circling and circling until he finally dies from being trampled&period; I found it easier to get off the horse with &&num;8220&semi;A&comma;&&num;8221&semi; kicked some enemy ass&comma; then get back on the horse by holding &&num;8220&semi;A&period;&&num;8221&semi; Being on the horse does have some pretty cool battle perks&comma; though&semi; The coolest being &&num;8220&semi;Rush&&num;8221&semi; mode&period; When you find a &&num;8220&semi;Rush&&num;8221&semi; area&comma; you can pull down on the right trigger and basically swarm your army over anything in your path&period; I was taking walls down&comma; shielded troops&comma; whole battalions&semi; It was amazing to do&comma; and even better to see&period; Those were some of my favorite parts of the battles&period; Nothing says fun like galloping over the bodies of your enemies&comma; right&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;99144" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-99144" style&equals;"width&colon; 734px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-99144" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;04004635&sol;Arslan&lowbar;Battle&lowbar;5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Arslan 2" width&equals;"734" height&equals;"413" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-99144" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Arslan&colon; The Warriors Of Legend&comma; Koei Tecmo&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As you gaze upon this game while playing it&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll get the feeling of being in an anime episode&period; The visuals are gorgeous and carry throughout the entire game&period; Cut scenes and actual gameplay look almost identical&comma; and I found myself just sitting there on my horse before I realized it was my turn to play&period; This is a game that will require you do a lot of reading&comma; though&comma; as there are no English voice-overs&&num;8211&semi;just Japanese&period; But maybe if I play this enough&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ll pick up some useful Japanese terms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The whole style of <em>Arslan<&sol;em> is just amazing&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m pretty sure it is going to get me into anime&period; Now if I just had any idea which anime to begin with&period; The only thing that really turned me off were the controls&period; While they&&num;8217&semi;re easy&comma; I would lag a lot or perform combos too slowly when pressing certain buttons&period; I also disliked the repetitiveness of this game&semi; This is the part of the series that keeps me from becoming fully engrossed in all of Koei Tecmo&&num;8217&semi;s incarnations of this formula&period;  There are only so many generals I can kill before I get bored&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The hack and slash genre really has never been my cup of tea&period; I enjoy dabbling in them every now and then&comma; but I don&&num;8217&semi;t wait on baited breath for new ones&period; If you are a fan of this type of game&comma; the <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;mixing-strategy-with-button-mashing-dynasty-warriors-8-empires-review&sol;">Dynasty Warriors<&sol;a><&sol;em> series and its clones that Koei Tecmo punches out&comma; then by all means pick this title up&period; It will whet your whistle for some time&period; If you are a fan of anime or like to dabble in hack and slash&comma; I would pick this title up as well&comma; but it really isn&&num;8217&semi;t something to write home to Mom about&period; I did enjoy my time with it&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m sure I will play it every now and then&comma; but it isn&&num;8217&semi;t a game that will draw me back every day&period; It does make me very excited for Koei Tecmo&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;attack-titan-2016-game-2nd-teaser-posted&sol;">soon to be released <em>Attack on Titan<&sol;em> game&period;<&sol;a> That is one anime I&&num;8217&semi;ve seen&comma; and I can&&num;8217&semi;t wait to take down some titans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em><strong>An Xbox One code for Arslan&colon; The Warriors Of Legend was provided by Koei Tecmo for the purpose of this review<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;