Jellyape

I've been put off trying a warriors game for a long time from awful reviews, but don't listen to them, this game is really fun and long enough I'm over 20hours in so far playing on normal (don't play on easy, it's too easy) This game has the best graphics out of the 3ds games I've played and the 3d is subtle but adds to the experience. Now you do spend a lot of your time pressing x but you have through in the right special techniques using y otherwise you'll lose and complaining that you press x a lot is like complaining on COD that you shoot a lot. Most reviews missed out the important details of this game. You start by naming a male or female character and answering some questions that determine your type, this affects your stats as you level up but not by much. The character looks how it looks you can't customise it (my biggest disappointment with the game) however eventually you unlock a few different clothes but not enough. You will unlock the ability to use other peoples weapons but not for a long time (I haven't yet). You play through an epic story about feudal Japan fighting for different clans and what not as they struggle for supremacy. While playing you control up to 4 officers, switching between which one you play as through the touch screen and giving the rest orders through the pause menu (though you can only tell them to go somewhere or attack an enemy officer) while the computer controls your officers they have some sense but not a lot, while on a level you get lots of small missions such as defeat this officer in 1 minute and stop this officer from getting to this point. These missions generally happen at the same time, this is where the real strategy comes into place as you have to place your officers well to complete the missions. However you cannot trust a computer controlled officer to complete a mission, they just fail. This can be frustrating but I haven't found a mission that isn't achievable with the right placement of officers and determination. On the battle field there are also officers on your side that you can't control and they run round helping out a bit and generally dying. You collect items and weapons for completing missions and these can be fused together to make stronger weapons. As the weapons carry different bonuses such as bonuses to attack, defence, the range of your attacks etc. making weapons can be very fun. You can also buy horses or steal enemy officers houses which is fun but the horses don't do much. Once you have completed a mission you can replay it and change which officers you control in battle and as you progress through the game you unlock officers to use in any battle. There are just over 40 playable characters with massively varying moves which I think is fantastic. One of the highlights of the game is the musou moves these are super moves used by pressing and holding a, they look fantastic with the 3d on and are a real life saver when your getting owned by an enemy officer. The biggest downside of this game to me is there isn't enough customisation for the main character that you use in every battle and I would like to be able to give more order than just go here, attack them. The music is not memorable but it isn't bad either. The backgrounds are a bit bland but the characters look great so I don't care. Some people might think the hordes of soldiers are too easy too beat but when your fighting the officers the soldiers are just annoying and I'm glad they are easy to beat. I think this is the best launch game and plenty long with great graphics and gameplay and I can't wait to find out what happens next at each part of the story. With over 40 characters there is plenty of replay value to this game, though you probably have to complete it before you are allowed to just use any officer in any battle. The game isn't perfect but is great fun, however if I wasn't a big hack and slash fan (from golden axe way back when too phantasy star) I would give this a 7 I think as people may find the game formula too repetitive even with 40+ characters especially as you mainly use your main character. If you like hack and slashing through everything that stands in your way then get this game.

The game is fun, very fun, but over in about 2hours. The 3D is fantastic but melts your eyes (this is why Nintendo say only have it turned on for 15mins at a time) I actually had to alternate 3D on and off to stop my eyes from exploding. The controls are amazing, both the circle pad and gyro controls are very precise and the gyro controls calibrate each time you use them so there's no issues there. The main game has 8worlds and is very easy. The other mini games I found are good enough to be worth my time though, the monkey fight is a dumbed down smash bros that plays ok but is ridiculously easy (my first time playing I finished with 143 bananas,while all 3 computers had 0) and the monkey ball kart I found painful to play the drifting is poor, and when you get hit by a weapon you stop for a ludicrous amount of time. On the upper hand though the courses are fine. If you like repeatedly playing a few levels to better your score this is a good game for you otherwise, pick it up if you find it really cheap it is fun but its not worth the money 3ds cost right now.

Shockingly bad, I couldn't believe the awful graphics, and the 3D while sort of nice didn't add enough to me. The single player does seem long but starts off so easy and boring. Unless you love ridge racer I would stay away from this game. Even so I would say pick it up far cheaper on psp. If you love arcade racers and don't own outrun already again you might enjoy this just be aware the game is like 5 year old game with 3d.