I'm somewhat pleased and yet disappointed with dynasty warriors 9. The pros: Beautiful scenery, well done Chinese and Japanese voice acting, awesome soundtrack, and easy trophy objectives. The cons: Horrible specs for an 8th generation game (runs 30 fps 720p on standard console and pc, 40 fps 920p on higher end console and pc), Drops frames left and right, lackluster weapons selection, convoluted fighting mechanics, and just all round super buggy. When it comes to dynasty warriors 9, rather you're a casual or a die hard fan, you're either going to enjoy it or hate it.

This game doesn't play anything like the older ones. They scrapped their model for an attempt at an Open World game. While I think it was an interesting idea it unfortunately was not implemented well. It is really cool to pull up the world map and realize that there is fighting going on everywhere and you can travel anywhere you want but once you realize most of it is just the same copy and pasted general standing in place by himself waiting for you to run and and kill him it loses its luster. Most of the game can come down to just running up to whoever you need to kill, killing him, and moving on. Even if they are in a building or castle you can just use your grapple to scale any wall and do the same. You can finish most levels killing 10 people if you want, which is CRAZY considering this is a Dynasty Warriors game. As funny as it sounds this game plays well if you give yourself some rules to play by. If you stick to the roads only and defeat every camp/stronghold on the way to your objective instead of just cutting across the map it plays pretty good. The problem is that you aren't really incentivized to do so. All in all it's a pretty disappointing Dynasty Warriors game. I didn't go into the Fishing, Hunting, and crafting systems because I just don't think any of them were implemented well enough. There are some decent ideas here but it came out as more of a jumbled mess unfortunately.

DW9 had a rough start. Obviously undercooked and stretched too thin. But after some patches, it runs better on base PS4. It still has problems, an empty open world, cloned movesets (though DLC adds new weapons, sadly overpriced), the terrible grappling hook, and so on. Still, I actually enjoy it for what it is.

I’ve been a long time fine since DW3 and I own all of them. This game isn’t anywhere near as bad as people make it out to me. It isn’t the greatest either. The open world is barebones for the post part, but there are some things to do. The story mode is entertaining and seeing the battlefield evolve through sub quests is definitely fun and exciting. However, at the same time it can kind of drag out. All in all, I would recommend this to die hard fans only.

The Open World feature could’ve had so much potential like Skyrim, Assassin’s Creed or The Witcher, but it was wasted on this game. The visual, AI and gameplay took a downward spiral nosedive compared to the previous games as well. And if you thought the English voice acting was bad before, it’s gotten...a lot worse. Cao Cao is pronounced Tsao Tsao and Cow Cow by different people. They’re not even on the same page. Even if you’re a fanboy, you may want to steer clear of this title. I haven’t played a game this bad since No Man’s Sky