If you ever hang out with Moham and me, chances are you're going to hear the two of us quoting something from this. We spent weeks watching it over and over until I felt I had to buy it. My only experience with Dynasty Warriors is mostly Hyrule Warriors and a bit of the eighth installment I played at Wong's house. Number three came out in 2001, which is a huge throwback. I'm fine with shitty graphics. It's the controls that freak me out. You can't move the camera unless if you block — then it swivels behind you — but it's so unwieldy I rarely use that. Speaking of blocking, that never works. They literally shatter my defense in the first or second hit. And my god, the difficulty curve. In the campaign the first battle was all right. But then it took four or five tries to finish the second one. I have a jump button, but I'm still trying to figure out what for other than mounting a horse. In Hyrule Warriors, your troops aren't really necessary other than to slow down powerful enemies. Here, you need them. Stray too far from the front line and you're fucked. It's a completely different mentality.

I can see Toei hadn't fully tweaked and polished the game by this point. But now I kinda wanna go back even further to the PS1 and play the first game to see how this mess was an improvement from before.