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Become immersed in exhilarating battles as a nameless hero in the Three Kingdoms
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS is a hack and slash, spectacle fighter and wargame game
developed and published by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO. and LTD..
Released on January 16th 2025 is available only on Windows.
It has received 20,715 reviews of which 19,369 were positive and 1,346 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 79.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 34.79€ on Instant Gaming.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10/11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or higher, AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or higher
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (VRAM 6GB) or better, AMD Radeon RX 590 (VRAM 8GB) or better
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 50 GB available space
- Sound Card: 16-bit stereo with 48KHz playback
- Additional Notes: Based on a display resolution of 1920x1080 and a frame rate of 30FPS, with the Graphics Quality set to "Low" and the Texture Quality set to "Low." Note: Windows® 11 system requirements apply when using that OS.
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Had quite a backlog of games from last year including "DW Origins" and the timing is tight, especially with Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered Complete Edition release on October 1st. DW3 Remastered was previously region-locked in my country, so hope that issue gets resolved for upcoming Koei titles like Atelier Karia, AOT3, Wo Long 2, and BR Quartet. Koei Tecmo finally came to their senses after the odd experiment that was DW9 this feels like a true Musou game, but with a modern touch. As a fan who has played the series since the PS2 era, DW Origins feels like a highly successful apology letter for 2025. They ditched the tedious open-world concept of the previous game and returned to the classic "One Man Army" identity. The massive enemy count is a major highlight of DWO, creating an incredible war atmosphere especially when combined with the cinematic troop tactics mechanics. The combat system isn't just mindless "Square-Square-Triangle" button-mashing anymore, there are now responsive parry and perfect dodge mechanics. Even though you play as the same protagonist"The One and Only Ziluan". The weapon proficiency system kept me constantly switching weapons. Each weapon has a unique vibe and "Battle Arts" that make leveling them up fun. The optimization for the Steam version is incredibly solid. It runs smoothly even on handheld UMPCs like the ROG Ally X and Steam Deck, with a dedicated "Steam Deck" medium setting available in the DWO in-game menu. One downside is that can't free switch between dozens of characters right from the start like in older games characters like Guan Yu, Cao Cao, Zhang Fei, etc. I’m very interested in trying the "Visions of Four Heroes" DLC in the future, but right now, the price is steep almost half the cost of the base game. Hopefully, I can pick it up during the Autumn or Winter Sale with a 50–60% discount! lol 😂
Dynasty Warriors is, without a shadow of a doubt, my absolute most beloved series of all time. Dynasty Warriors 5 was the first (real) video game I ever played as a child on a hand-me-down Playstation 2, and it was among a collection of PS2 games my cousin no longer had any need for. I played it and its spin offs to completion so many times that I had to constantly buy new discs because I would scratch them with how often I would play them. Needless to say, Dynasty Warriors is a staple of my childhood, kicked off my musou obsession, and will forever hold a special place in my heart. I would go on to play all of them -- every single one of them released in the West -- including the bad ones. I will fight you over 6, and I put at least 2,000+ hours into 9 on console out of some sort of sunk cost fallacy (no, I'm not going to stan it, but I will say the cast has never looked better). Dynasty Warriors Origins is the reboot of this beloved series of mine, and it had some big, biiiiiiiiiig expectations to meet. I'm going to preorder, play the hell out of, and probably love (to an extent) no matter what Warriors slop KOEI manages to put out, but I knew Origins had to be good. Not just good, it had to be great , or there was a very real chance my favorite video game series was going to be canned, or at least put on hold for a long time (looking at you, Samurai Warriors :c). It succeeded. I was skeptical of the one, non-customizable protagonist Ziluan. I was kind of annoyed, actually -- so many characters are looking better than ever, have competent voice acting (Yu Jin is voiced by freaking ELIAS TOUFEXIS! MY FAVORITE VOICE ACTOR?? WHAT?!), and have decently well-done clone movesets, why the heck wouldn't I want to play them for longer than 30 seconds at a time? Yet, Ziluan, despite the fact the dude doesn't even talk (except for in-battle, for some reason lol "I've got you!"), has become a staple, a favorite even, of mine. The variety of movesets makes up for this game's biggest drawback, with so many weapons to choose from, I basically feel like I'm playing a different character each time, even if some of the weapons do look a little goofy on twinky Ziluan. The outfits for base game Ziluan were kind of lacking, but the DLC does fix that (a year later, meh). The combat in Origins is by far the most engaging and enjoyable in the entire series. Parrying is fun and sensible, dodging is viable and swift, and each weapon having its own gimmick really does lend credence to the fact that KOEI learned from their mistakes in 9. The overland open world is cool, and has a real purpose! Let's hope it's repurposed for an Empires title. The visuals are nothing short of stunning for Dynasty Warriors, which has never really been at the forefront of graphical fidelity. The 1-vs-1000 style is really emphasized here, with you fighting literally thousands of soldiers at a time, and being able to kick their asses. It's a far cry from the days where a couple of archers could slime even the most seasoned musou players, but it has its own charm and this game derives its challenge from other aspects, namely the engaging officer combat. There's so many little other things I could rave about -- duels, soldier tactics, ZHUHE (I love her), but it'd just emphasize what I've already gotten across; I love Dynasty Warriors Origins. Of course, I can't just love everything about the game. It has its drawbacks, and I will complain about those. Why the heck can't I customize Ziluan? It's not like he's a real character, and it seems like at one point they were considering allowing this, if not at least allowing us to choose between him or Zhuhe. It took a year for them to allow us to play her without mods (more on that in my Visions review). If we weren't going to be able to play the available musou characters (a limited cast, mind you, even cutting some characters that were actually around in the time before Red Cliffs), then at least let us customize Ziluan the one character we do play. I don't think it's a big ask. The altered fates (aka this game's version of "hypothetical scenarios" found in most of the other games in the series) kind of suck. I don't mean like they aren't enjoyable to play, I mean the stories kind of just aren't really all that engaging for fans of ROTK/DW storytelling. Like.. two of the three factions you play already won Chi Bi, so.. history isn't really changing except for the fact a couple of officers survive to fight in it I guess (if I have to live through another scenario where Sun Jian/Sun Ce give up the reins of leadership to Sun Quan despite being ALIVE AND WELL ONE MORE TIME I'M GONNA CRY. Get a new idea KOEI!) . Only Wei's is really different, and not by that much. The pay off for the challenge of completing these altered fates isn't really worth it. I don't mind the 'everybody wants to sleep with stupid sexy Ziluan' effect in the translation (I guess that's the explanation) but like none of the interpersonal character conversations are really anything but, you know, 'I really really really like you Ziluan you're so cool.' There's a few interesting character moments, but none of it really matters it and let's be honest, you got these cutscenes because you did the challenges for more upgrade points. I'm not grinding region peace. It just kinda seems pointless. I don't play warriors games for countless battles against like 30 peons and a Wise Yellow Turbans General who is trying to kill Peasants. None of these things truly detract from my overall experience with Dynasty Warriors Origins, though -- the game is phenomenal, and if you're a long time fan of Dynasty Warriors like I am, then you probably aren't even reading this review and have already gone out and played it. If you're an interested party, then yes, this is one of the better ones to start with! But also, you should play DW5. Like, go emulate it or something after you've finished this one. It's peak, and has Sima Yi in it. Actually, just play any of the ones with Sima Yi in it, which is basically all of them. Just play all of them.
I will be honest. Nothing will ever top Dynasty Warriors 3. Not the game itself, but what it meant: two brothers, together, without a care in the world. 26 years later, we are both older, life happened, and those times exist only in that quiet corner of my heart. This game somehow found that corner and knocked gently. I could never go back to the past, at least this game Dynasty Warriors Origins brought back some memories.
Gameplay-wise, this is certainly one of the best, most refined, most satisfying Musou games out there. But story and character-wise, it's a mixed bag compared to previous Dynasty Warriors entries. We're all here for the gameplay, which is top-notch and I adore it, but the latter is still worth considering and will be the focus of this review. Dynasty Warriors is, of course, a loose adaptation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel, which itself is a dramatization of real-world history. While Dynasty Warriors does make wildly inaccurate depictions of individual characters by turning them into exaggerated anime tropes, like Zhang He being comically flamboyant and obsessed with perfection/beauty in previous games, Origins made the decision to ground many of these characters' personalities. Zhang He is a normal guy now. Calling them 'grounded' is rather generous though, the more accurate word is probably 'flat'. This is a byproduct of my biggest criticism towards Origins, the main protagonist, who I will be referring to as Ziluan. Dynasty Warriors typically doesn't have a singular main protagonist due to the nature of Romance of the Three Kingdoms spanning over a hundred years and containing the perspectives of multiple factions (though Shu is definitely portrayed as *the* good guys). That means there were dozens upon dozens of playable characters in previous DW games. Origins changes this, containing only a single playable character whom you experience the entire narrative from the perspective of. Problem is, he's a silent avatar character. And I don't mind non-historical additions, I love the hypothetical story lines across the series (which I'll mention later), but Ziluan doesn't add anything of significance. Being a silent avatar, he has no personality. And being meant as a self-insert (despite not being at all customizable), he's also a Gary Stu that makes all other characters, even his *enemies*, constantly bow down and kiss his feet when he so much as breathes near them. The more in-depth bond conversations that Origins added are great conceptually for expanding on characters that were previously surface-level tropes, but in practice, they all, and I do mean *ALL* with no exaggeration, devolve to said character confessing how obsessed they are with the perfect, awe-inspiring Ziluan. This includes some characters you are currently in conflict with. And every time Ziluan and an enemy officer meet on the battlefield, they always talk about how tragic it is for them to have to battle such a beloved, totally platonic friend. Keep in mind Ziluan only speaks in the occasional one-sentence dialogue option that has a very poor illusion of choice. And one of the biggest character changes caused by Ziluan is with the famous Lu Bu, who no longer cares at all about Diaochan because *both* of them are now infatuated with Ziluan. At the very least, the bond conversations Ziluan has with both men and women have an equal amount of romantic tension, so the bisexuals stay winning. Ziluan also has his own story line that interrupts the main Three Kingdoms narrative and barely changes between routes because, like many silent avatars, he has amnesia and has to rediscover his purpose and choose whether he should go back on the path fate has decided for him, or if he should be his own man who makes his own decisions as a free spirit (he'll still be the lapdog of whatever faction you choose to make him serve). It's not that interesting, and one of the new characters introduced for this storyline, Bailuan, is my new least favorite DW character and I hate him every time he's on screen. When he shows up, it's either as a cryptic sign board or a whiny edgelord. But I have to give him credit for being the only Ziluan hater in the entire game. There's also a character who almost exclusively appears in flashbacks that is a literal gender-swapped Ziluan who seemed like a shoe-in for a gender option for Ziluan. This may be shocking for some of you to hear, but women exist. They (or anyone else) might prefer to play as a woman in their games, and this game denies that for some bizarre reason. You could swap the genders of the two and nothing about the story changes, I don't know why they didn't have that option. Anyway, how's the main story? It's actually better than the older DW games, or what's there is. It only goes up to the Battle of Chibi, but it goes *way* more in-depth overall. The Yellow Turban Rebellion is a whole arc, with Zhang Jiao actually being a sort of a tragic, misguided antagonist instead of a crazy hippie. And they made him hot. Dong Zhuo is also less comedically evil. I mean, he's absolutely still evil and deserves no sympathy, but this time he has an aura of authority and charisma so it's a more intimidating, believable kind of evil than a Saturday morning cartoon kind of evil. The battle against Lu Bu is also insane, he went from just another officer with amped stats and Super Armor to an actual, full-on, cinematic boss fight. Dark Souls comparisons are overdone and wildly misused nowadays, but Lu Bu really does feel like a Dark Souls boss (also in part due to the universal addition of parrying and perfect dodges) which just reinforces his reputation as *the* one-man army that makes him the face of this genre. His characterization also maintains the more cool and confident depiction he had in DW9, which does make him scarier than the angry meathead he was in the past. However, another thing Origins does poorly are the Hypotheticals. Previous games' Hypothetical routes were secret branching story paths. Self-explanatory. Origins Hypotheticals are mere secret endings. No new battles or anything, mostly just an extended ending cutscene. It's a bit of a letdown. So overall, the gameplay is peak Musou, but my goodness does Ziluan constantly have a domino effect of disappointment on everything else simply by existing. But that's fine, you can skip all the cutscenes and still have a blast even if there's a fraction of playable movesets compared to previous DW games (which, I didn't mention this, but it leads to many preexisting characters losing their iconic weapon types) because those movesets have a lot more depth than any before. Origins also gets extremely difficult on higher difficulties for those of you who thought Musou games are mindless. Large Forces add to the power fantasy since you can pop a true Musou and nuke over 1000 soldiers in one fell swoop, or you don't do that and it becomes a brutal war of attrition. Extremely satisfying either way. The gameplay is just so darn fun, and with it being the most dominant part of the game, it obviously still nets a positive rating. If Ziluan is deleted for the sequel, it could end up being the definitive 'best' game in this entire genre.
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DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS is currently priced at 79.99€ on Steam.
No, DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 79.99€ on Steam.
Yes, DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS received 19,369 positive votes out of a total of 20,715 achieving an impressive rating of 9.13.
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DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS was developed and published by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO. and LTD..
Yes, DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS is playable and fully supported on Windows.
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DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS is a single-player game.
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