Dynasty Warriors: Origins’ New Game Plus Should Be The Norm – TheGamer

It’s very obvious that there are three paths in Dynasty Warriors: Origins for you to walk. In Chapter Three there are three leaders who each offer you a place at their side (Cao Cao, Lui Bei, and Sun Jian), and you must choose one of them. This gives the game extra replayability, but also made it seem like a chore. Or at least, I thought it would.I opted to side with Cao Cao the first time around, which put me on a collision course with Lui Bei. Many of the subsequent battles featured Lui Bei’s forces either as uneasy allies or, more often, as enemies. Sun Jian’s path is distinctly different, and thus this faction only featured sporadically. In any case, I fought my way through to the end with Cao Cao, but did not unlock the ‘true’ ending. I figured this would be a case of playing all three paths to the end, and figured therefore that a great slog awaited me. But the novel method of New Game Plus made it far easier, and I’d love to see other games adapt it more regularly.When the game ends, you return to the Inn, a common stopping point along your journey. It’s here that you read letters offering rewards or side quests, where you make gems to boost your stats, and where you can check details like how many kills with each weapon or how long you’ve been playing. And, once you beat the campaign for the first time, it’s your avenue to New Game Plus. The story tab, which previously housed old cutscenes, now lets you replay from various points in the game, letting you dive in more decisively.It’s not total control, though you can replay any individual battle you choose to go for extra rewards with the new Ultimate difficulty. These are one off events, but picking a designated replay point means you can pick the story up from there with your current stats and weapons to explore other paths. Initially, only two were open to me – the start of Chapter Three, and a decisive mission in Cao Cao’s saga.Had I chosen Cao Cao’s path, I could have changed the course of history (in this case, saving Daian Wen). From there onwards, if I played the game through to the end, I would get the ‘true’ ending for Cao Cao. However, having seen Lui Bei’s battles from one perspective, I decided to restart at Chapter 3 and walk the other side of the war.This gave me a fascinating insight into how the game was constructed. Some missions were entirely unique, but more interesting were the ones I’d played before. The ones where we were allied were identical, save for having a different companion by my side. But the ones where we were in opposition played out to the same rhythm on the same map, only with entirely reversed objectives. It gave me a renewed appreciation for the scale and balance of the game, even if irritations with the narrative’s importance seeming to be highly variable still irked me.It was because of having played Cao Cao’s route that I was able to get Lui Bei’s true ending without even trying. In one late-game mission (Lui Bei has the latest branching of pathways), Lui Bei retreats in the face of Cao Cao’s massive force. I, eager to fight my old master, ignored this retreat and raced forward, thundering through the waves of soldiers with my cavalry before duelling Cao Cao. Once I defeated him – which, in Dynasty Warriors style, means he was ‘knocked out’ and ‘fled’ after being sliced in the face with bladed discs – a message appeared on screen that ‘Fate has been altered’. I wrapped up the last few missions, and got Lui Bei’s true ending.I moved on to Sun Jian, keen to see why the army was so sidelined in what appeared to be the ‘main’ narrative (given I had seen it twice now), and discovered that Sun Jian died in an early mission. The branching here is the earliest in the game, coming in the first mission you fight under their allegiance, and it‚Äôs in rushing to defend Sun Jian rather than following the objectives that you can change his fate and unlock the path to the secret ending.I’m yet to finish Sun Jian’s route, or go back and finish Cao Cao’s (which happens in the middle of Chapter Four, right between the other two), to see how the endings compare, or whether there is even more to the story having seen the true ending of all three. But had I needed to start over, whether with my old stats or starting completely fresh, I might not have bothered. Certainly I wouldn’t have been eager to see them all. And, as happened with Sun Jian, if I initially made the ‘wrong’ choice, I definitely wouldn’t have started over again again.Dynasty Warriors: Origins is not the only game that lets you replay any battle you want once the campaign is done, nor is it even the only one that lets you play out other choices without needing to start the whole thing over. But with three paths that each have two further paths, it‚Äôs incredibly rewarding that you can start at the most important point in the story without having to worry about it.We want to hear from you! Share your opinions in the thread below and remember to keep it respectful.Your comment has not been savedAgreed, but it’s Liu Bei not Lui Bei – that makes him sound like Louie Bei. üòÖIn just weeks, the Liberty City Preservation project has been taken down. 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