Kessen III Review

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(More customer reviews)Honestly I don't know what to expect from this game.The writups say that it's quite different form the original Kessen games and there's more button pressing than your usual strategy games.To me, playing this game feels like playing Dynasty / Samurai Warriors at large scale.

Controls:

Instead of controlling a single soldier (like in DW and SW), you control a whole unit and your unit attacks each time you press the square button.Pressing and holding the triangle button charges up your unit for a unit-specific super attack.Releasing the button will lauch the attack. (If you are attacked while holding the triangle button, the damage to your unit is doubled)The circle is used for activating officer skills (these skills are similar to the previous Kessen games).The X button is used for retreating.The L1 button is use for guarding from enemy attacks and reforming your ranks.The R1 is used to launch cooridnated attacks with other friendly units near by.

While you control your unit in an arcade-like fashion, your other units can be commanded by setting targets and behaviors (like the original Kessen games).You can switch from one unit to another, whenever you feel manual intervention is needed.

Officer Skills:

One neat officer skill is "Rampage Mode", this lets the officer attack the enemy ranks alone (similar to the previous Kessen's "Raid" skill).This time it zooms into the map and the gameplay changes to something similar to Dynasty / Samurai Warriors where the controls are similar.Square = normal attack, Triange = strong attack, Circle = Kessen Attack (similar to Musou).The object of rampage is to kill as many enemy soldiers within the time limit. The number of soldiers you kill will affect the number of enemy soldiers in Battle Mode.You also have a chance to defeat the enemy officer.

Items:

There are several items that you can equip.Weapons, helmets, armors, horses, books, accessories, troop types.But the best thing about this is that you will see your officers actually wearing the armors and helmets in the battlefield (something that the other Koei games do not show).You acquire these stuff from battles and you can also trade them with a merchant in the Political Phase.

Cheesy stuff:

Of course the game is not perfect.Koei games are known for awful english dubbing and this game is no exception.Your units do not act natuarlly in the battlefield as they move exactly in unison and always attack at the same time at the press of a button.

But the game is fun overall and has a good balance between strategy and action.

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