Samurai Warriors 2 Review

Samurai Warriors 2 is just another hack n’ slash type game made Koei. And yes it is the same company who created / published the famous Dynasty Warriors Series where you play as the Three Kingdom General, but in Samurai Warriors 2 you play as Japanese General in Tokugawa era (if i’m not wrong since i do not know much about History)

At the beginning of the game you can choose between 7 characters but later when you’ve finished each character quest you’ll open new character. Total 24 playable characters in story mode and 2 additional characters (Okuni, and Ranmaru Mori) that can be played in Freemode only if played by 1 player only

Btw if you ask me why i know the total characters would be 26, unlike the screenshot above. Thats because i took the above screenshot using PCSX2 because my tv tuner used to capture screenshot from PS2 Console is still on my old computer (to be exact motherboard) and i havent moved it yet to my new motherboard

Okay … there’re a lots of characters that can be played but now what ? is that all ? of course not, there’re various aspect why i like this game better than Dynasty Warriors series. And here’s some of it and of course this is based on my experiences after playing this game for the past few days:

1. Unique skills for each character, by pressing R1 + Triangle (second skill) or R1 + Square button (first skill) for example my favorite unique skill is Nene Copycat skill that can transform herself into nearby character (even enemies)
2. Each character can has different skill. Unlike the first one, you can choose to buy it from shop or learn it (some of the skill require you to learn it) for example, Musashi has two counter attack skill that can be activated by pressing Triangle when an enemy attack you or by pressing R1 + Square
3. Other than that, there’s also monopoly like game in this Samurai Warriors 2 game (to be honest im not really interested on playing this monopoly thing so i can not say much about it but your opinion might be different than mine)
4. Character leveling like on many MMORPG game (yep … you can level your character to the maximum level of 50)
5. Lots of bodyguard type to choose from, such as Sumo, Ninja / Kunoichi, Fire Ninja, Samurai / Lady Samurai, Monk / Shrine Maid

Want to know more about this game ? well … i’d suggest you to get it and try it by yourself instead ;) .. but one thing i’d like you to know is, i like this game better than Dynasty Warriors Series although the AI Itself is still the same like on all Dynasty Warriors series on PS2 but unlike on Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper (PC)