There are few things in life quite as satisfying as a good Dynasty Warriors game — that fulfilling sensation of mowing down hundreds of faceless soldiers with a single press of a button. Over the decades, Dynasty Warriors has honed its hack-and-slash formula into a high sheen, but 2018’s Dynasty Warriors 9 took a step into open world design, and was demonstrably worse off for it. Dynasty Warriors Origins, as the name implies, is a way for the franchise to get back to basics, rediscovering what made it so special. And if the new playable demo is any indication, it’s going about it in all the right ways.
If you’re unfamiliar with Dynasty Warriors, it’s a long-running franchise that very loosely adapts the famous Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms — which itself is based on the real historical events of great upheaval and the Three Kingdoms period, which ran from roughly 184 AD to 280 AD.
