Released today for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Arslan: The Warriors of Legend is based on the anime of a manga adaptation of a series of Japanese fantasy novels that themselves are based on a Persian epic. None of that matters as long as you enjoy Dynasty Warriors games.
If you’re not sure, watch us play it in the video above. It’s what we played it for.
I certainly didn’t know anything about the origins of the latest game from Omega Force, the developer behind Dynasty Warriors and its various spin-offs, as well as licensed massive action battle games like Hyrule Warriors and Dragon Quest Heroes. Apparently the anime has been running for one season and is due for a second, but it doesn’t show up on the streaming anime service I subscribe to so it might as well not exist.
So why am I playing it? Well, for one its cel-shaded graphics were pretty enough to catch my eye. And secondly, I’m a fan of the Musou series. Any chance I get to be one character against a ton of characters while non-player characters in my army mill about doing nothing? I’ll take it.
And the Arslan: The Warriors of Legend is an excellent Musou game. It’s highly polished, like all of Omega Force’s third party efforts. The two button combo system is simple and lovely to fight with. At certain times I get to gather my forces to charge the enemy with massive numbers.
If you really want to know the story of The Heroic Legend of Arslan it’s all here, presented anime cutscene style. If you don’t, you’ll still have a lot of fun online and off, as long as your idea of fun is cutting through hordes of same-looking enemies.
I know mine is.
CORRECTION - 4:30pm: The development studio is called Omega Force, not Q-Force. Apologies for the mistake.
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