Warriors Orochi 4

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User Score
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
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  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 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    For 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.    … Expand

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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
  1. Nintendo Insider
    Dec 18, 2018
    60
    Perhaps the largest issue with Warriors Orochi 4 on Nintendo Switch is that it is on the Switch. With both Fire Emblem Warriors and Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition available on the console, choosing a lesser version of the game with less recognisable characters isn’t realistic. If you want a good hack-and-slash game then there are already two here, this just doesn’t come close.
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  2. Universo Nintendo
    Dec 7, 2018
    75
    Warriors Orochi 4 has an incredible character diversity, easy to understand gameplay, good mechanics and an intriguing story. Unfortunately, the Nintendo Switch version has performance issues, affecting the whole package.
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  3. Vooks
    Dec 4, 2018
    70
    The Warriors franchise has gotten a reputation for being button mashers, Warriors Orochi 4 won’t change people’s minds. For fans, this game is the biggest gathering of characters from two series and it’ll be a joy to see them all interacting together. For new or less invested fans into Warriors games, there’s less to draw you in. There can be a relaxing, zen-like quality to hacking through large numbers of enemies, but ultimately it feels like there is little substance outside of the oversized roster. Warriors Orochi 4 and the Warriors series itself aren’t bad games. Between the story campaign and leveling up your warriors and camp, you could be busy for a while.
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