Once I reviewed Dynasty Warriors Origins final 12 months, I felt reasonably underwhelmed as a long-time collection fan who had additionally invested loads in researching the historic Chinese language Three Kingdoms interval to observe the storyline in these video games. However when I’ve the chance to take a look at the upcoming Visions of 4 Heroes DLC, I see it helps rectify a number of the points I had within the unique Dynasty Warriors Origins.
One of many obvious points within the unique sport for me was the dearth of viewpoints for different faction leaders like Yuan Shao and the Yellow Turbans’ Zhang Jiao. Along with Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo, the 4 leaders lastly have hypothetical tales the place the protagonist Ziluan helps every of them. However as an alternative of showing as new branches in the principle story, the hypotheticals are gathered in a separate section that additionally has its personal inn hub and ability tree, together with new units of trials and challenges.
The brand new tales haven’t solely new main battle phases—in addition they embody a brand new sort of marketing campaign known as Strategic Battle. That is the place military platoons cut up up and take turns in dealing harm to one another. You too can affect the battle by instantly partaking an enemy platoon, which is able to generate a Skirmish stage towards it.
As you defeat an enemy platoon, you possibly can acquire Unit Motion Factors to launch military assaults that don’t eat a flip and Secret Techniques that generate buff or harm areas throughout skirmishes. All of it culminates in a Decisive Battle the place you’ll lastly get to problem the enemy commander’s giant military.
The troop numbers solely matter all through the precise Strategic Battle. Nonetheless, I can undoubtedly see this method as a basis for a brand new Empires entry sooner or later. However after all, all of the lacking characters and areas must return first earlier than Omega Drive can work on that.
One other challenge I had that I didn’t point out earlier than was the dearth of colour selection for the protagonist’s costumes. So I’m very excited to see that one of many new costumes added with this DLC has alternate colours that signify all supported factions—together with the three predominant ones within the unique Dynasty Warriors Origins as effectively. This actually helps Ziluan mix extra naturally with the faction he selected.
Every of the brand new weapon varieties additionally has its personal assault strategies, staying true to the sport’s total path. The Bow distinguishes itself by having one other assault string the place you possibly can assault whereas holding guard to fireplace a number of arrows whereas strafing round. However to unleash the true potential of the Rope Dart, I like to recommend holding the sturdy assault button everytime you wish to launch an assault that makes use of it.
And final however not least, I’m allowed to share that the thriller character will declare himself as Fei Wei (飛衛). Nonetheless, there have been no precise figures with that title within the Chinese language Three Kingdoms interval. I as an alternative found that this title belonged to a legendary archer talked about within the Tang chapter of the Liezi texts.
Dynasty Warriors Origins’ Visions of 4 Heroes DLC pack will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X, PC, and Nintendo Swap 2 on January 22, 2026.
