This is a really fun game.
I like to play this game more when I'm with friends or with my brother because we make fun of each others characters and there is always a "smart" comment that we have to make. You might say that this is really stupid, but my point is that this game is more fun when you are playing it with people because there is more to the game than just going around slashing people and killing them. There is also missions that have to be done in the game to raise your armies morale and so that you can get the upper hand in combat and in strategy,. If those missions are done, then there is a risk of lossing and getting game over and all that experience that you earned will go down the drain.
There is diffrent ways that you can play this game, like versus mode where you face off against another player and stuff like that. But the 2 main ones are Story Mode and Free Mode. Story mode is really self explanitory, you go into the story of the character that you choose to play as and you see what happeneds to the character and stuff like that. Another player can also help you in this and help you acomplish missions that would be to difficult to just take on your self. Sometimes 2 or 3 mission activate all at once and it's really hard to do them all at once. This is where the 2nd player can help, he/she can go do one missions for you while you take care of another one.
Then on Free Mode is where I most of the time I level up my character if he/she is to weak for the stage that I'm going into. But it's man purpose is to play with a character on a battle that is not part of the real story line and you get to fight on the side of another persons story. I really like this part of the game because it kind of gives you a feel for what could have happened if that character was in that story. Like I mentioned before, there is difrent things that you can do with the game. I also really like to go in versus mode because it puts your skills to the test with someone else that is in the room and not some stupid AI that only knows how to do one thing. This can even help you come up with combos to use in the game that can deal more damage and stuff like that. As you play the game, there is diferent items that you find out in the field and also in castles that can help you out. There is an items that you can equip to your character that increases the attack power, there is also another one that increases the deffense and so on. You keep these items and you can also find stronger ones that give you a biger bost. You also find better weapons along the way that increase your attack power. Some even have aditional side effects like increasing your stats and some even have an elemental atibute that may deal more damage if it's a fire element or can freeze people if it's of ice.
The characters also have a rank (level) and as you increase the level there is also a tittle that goes a long with it since you become more powerful. And as you level up, the character also gets expierence points that can be used to learn skills that can help you in battle. For example there is a skill that makes it so that the power of your mousou attack (special attack) is more powerful. But there is a limited amount of skills that the character can learn so you have to be careful of what you choose because once it's done and you save there is no turning back and you are stuck with the skills that you picked. So as you can see, there is difrent things that can happen in this game. I really like this games gameplay because it's not hard to play and just about anyone can learn how to play and it's not that hard. To attack you just push the "square" button, to use your charge atacks you use the "triangle" button, to jump you press the the "x" button, and to use your "O" button. There is also the "R 1" button to use your ranged attack (it's usually a bow, but ninjas use dagers) and you can use the "L 1" button to block. So as you can see, the basics are really easy. But if you want to do combos and stuff like that, then it gets kind of complicated because you have to push "square" several times and then the triangle button and stuff like that, but it's always fun to play. The graphics are aweosme, I know that there is games out there that have way better looking graphics but I think that the game designers did a good job at this. To me, graphics don't matter that much because I always look at how good the story line is and how good the gameplay is. Overall, I liked this game a lot and I recomend this game to anyone that has played Dynasty Warrios or that just like to play games where you slash and kill people because I promise that you wont be bored (specially if you play it with someone else. I give this game a 9.2. Thanks for reading.