Warriors Orochi 4

 Switch
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
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  1. Switch Player
    Nov 5, 2018
    40
    Having 170 playable characters is a nice selling point but lack of depth in the gameplay and poor visual quality leaves Warriors Orochi 4 being a disappointing title rather than a grand epic.
  2. Metro GameCentral
    Oct 16, 2018
    40
    Omega Force touts a fresh story, new mechanics, and a massive cast of characters but this is yet another Warriors title that succumbs to the series’ repetitive hack ‘n’ slash formula despite signs of passion from its developers.

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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 31
  3. Negative: 5 out of 31
  1. Mithlas
    May 7, 2019
    6
    For people new to the Musou/Warriors series, this is a good installment to start with. It contains almost every Dynasty Warriors and SamuraiFor people new to the Musou/Warriors series, this is a good installment to start with. It contains almost every Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors character. The samurai characters have their full hyper-attack which gives them a big advantage in mobility and power, especially as you start adding elements to your weapons.

    Unlike Dynasty Warriors, there is no weapon switching so if you don't like Daqiao's twin rods you won't even want to play as her. The new characters are a decent addition but all play like Dynasty Warriors characters and so fail to measure up to the samurai. The story is fair, but with such a large cast nobody really gets a chance to shine.

    Note that while you can customize your weapons with elements, you have to find the powerful 'gold' ones and weapon fusion is gone. All characters' musou attacks have been shortened and weakened, and the samurai lose the window of invincible action they got in previous games. The addition of magic attacks alleviates this somewhat, but feels incomplete. If you haven't played the other games in the series you won't mind, but if you have you will regret the number of small things that are no longer there.

    I played it until beating every mission and unlocking every character, but went back to playing Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate because that game felt like it had better staying power. This is a good action game, but other games do most aspects better and the story fails to measure up to Orochi 3. It plays fine on the Switch, but gamers with a PS4 will want to buy it on that because frame-rate is higher, the computer spawns more and slightly more aggressive enemies.    … Full Review »
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