Demo was really fun until....

[fairtoki]

Demo was great, I was going to pre-purchase until i met the "Tree Sentinel" boss at the end of demo...

WTF is this...

Elden ring was more balance than this boss.

Edit. I play DW8+Empire so know who the boss is. I use "Tree Sentinel" as metaphor and to not spoil who haven't finished DEMO.
It just my opinion that boss is kind of out of place from DEMO. There are no needed for insult or rude comment. I just share my opinion on game. Sorry if it insult to Game fans.

Also i already beat the boss.

Again i love the game, just think it out of place for DEMO and leave bad taste for casual play.

[ChiefCornFlake]

AAAAAAAH GET OUT MY WAY!

[Cory]

It's Lu Bu. You clearly haven't played this series before.

[Juno]

Why is it always the private profiles asking being purposely stupid?

[Ralathar44]

Typically the DW games let you grind and get stronger. No doubt this game will too. So if he's tough when you face him in the full game I'm sure you can just do a few more maps to improve your stats a little and then return to him.

[Ralathar44]

and yeah, he's definitely a brick wall of difficulty spike. Hopefully he's optional in the full game, fun as he's been to fight.

[chimpoforevah]

A sucky way to end the demo? Uh, no. It's absolutely perfect and is as it should be - an awesome throwback to old Lu Bu and how hard he's supposed to be for original fans. Thank goodness companies aren't always catering to casuals.

[Ralathar44]

Originally posted by chimpoforevah:

A sucky way to end the demo? Uh, no. It's absolutely perfect and is as it should be - an awesome throwback to old Lu Bu and how hard he's supposed to be for original fans. Thank goodness companies aren't always catering to casuals.

Dynasty Warriors, to be fair, has always been a super Casual friendly series. If you made it Dark Souls difficulty now you'd alienate alot of the original playerbase. I don't think Lu Bu being that strong is much of a problem, as long as he's optional.

Though I have to say he feels a bit over the top even for Dynasty Warriors. Not in terms of difficulty but feel. He's throwing energy blades and homing missile diving through the air and flinging shockwaves around in a way that makes him feel more lilke a mythological god than Lu Bu.

He might be slightly too over the top feel wise. He feels way more mystical/mythical/magical than the rest of the characters and level.

As well he doesn't just solo the entire army with you, he does it in seconds. Which is again a feel problem. They just gave him way too much magical AOE offense and your allies die too quickly.

Again, feels less like I'm fighting Lu Bu from the previous games and more like I'm fighting some mythological god.

[Chippawaffen]

Originally posted by Ralathar44:

Originally posted by chimpoforevah:

A sucky way to end the demo? Uh, no. It's absolutely perfect and is as it should be - an awesome throwback to old Lu Bu and how hard he's supposed to be for original fans. Thank goodness companies aren't always catering to casuals.

Dynasty Warriors, to be fair, has always been a super Casual friendly series. If you made it Dark Souls difficulty now you'd alienate alot of the original playerbase. I don't think Lu Bu being that strong is much of a problem, as long as he's optional.

Though I have to say he feels a bit over the top even for Dynasty Warriors. Not in terms of difficulty but feel. He's throwing energy blades and homing missile diving through the air and flinging shockwaves around in a way that makes him feel more lilke a mythological god than Lu Bu.

He might be slightly too over the top feel wise. He feels way more mystical/mythical/magical than the rest of the characters and level.

As well he doesn't just solo the entire army with you, he does it in seconds. Which is again a feel problem. They just gave him way too much magical AOE offense and your allies die too quickly.

Again, feels less like I'm fighting Lu Bu from the previous games and more like I'm fighting some mythological god.

Nah that's on par for lu bu if you play on harder than easy in any DWs

[Otsdarva The Everchosen]

Yeah they are turning it into a dark souls game, pretty sad.

[Drakan Wolf]

Power/difficulty-wise, he felt just like LuBu used to back in 3, 4, and 5. The problem I had is that it wasn't a solo fight... I was fighting LuBu, the camera, and the lock-on system simultaneously.

The camera seems to want to move to a near ground-level, forward-facing, zoomed-in default position as opposed to the slightly-elevated, downward-angled, zoomed-out view of older Musou titles, which makes it really difficult to see what running up right behind you.

The Lock-On mechanic helps alleviate this, except for one little hiccup: LuBu has such an immense range to his strike zone that you often break lock-on simply by retreating to a safe distance before attempting to launch another attack.

These were problems I encountered through the entire demo, but they were definitely exacerbated in the LuBu fight. As long as Omega Force does a bit of poloshing in regards to the engine (and making the QTE battle triggers stand out a bit more... they were definitely a little "muddy" and less attention-grabbing than they could be), I think this could definitely be one of the best Musou games in a long time.

[Ralathar44]

Originally posted by Chippawaffen:

Nah that's on par for lu bu if you play on harder than easy in any DWs

Nah, I've played every game since 3 (except 9), he's had reach and and AOE slam or scream. Maybe one ranged attack. He's never farted AOE ranged attacks anything like this before though. Plus a homing dive, plus a super charge throat slam.

The difficulty with Lu Bu has always been almost exclusively his numbers being big. He wasn't much harder to fight than other officers but his attack and defense were off the charts.

In this game not only did they give him the same overpowered stats but they gave him a ton more moves, alot more ranged and AOE attacks, and the game's base combat also changed to be more difficult as well. I like the new combat and etc. I like the overall difficulty. But he feels magical now instead of Lu Bu as he basically farts lightning.

[koinzell]

Originally posted by Snakeyes511:

Don’t pursue Lu Bu

NO. Pursue Lu Bu.

its how i managed to beat him.

[Hugal]

Can't believe some of these comments, it's Lu Bu, it doesn't matter what attack he uses when you are talking about realism, you are one soldier killing thousands of other troops as one, realism was never something that you had to think about when playing a Dynasty Warriors game, he was not hard when you learn how he works like any other Dynasty Warriors that has him to fight against optionally.

[Thubz]

i played it on my PS5 was good fun, and uhm about the last boss they say before you start at the end is a super strong boss and think hes just there for the demo so give people bit of extra challenge at the end

[Ralathar44]

Originally posted by Hugal:

Can't believe some of these comments, it's Lu Bu, it doesn't matter what attack he uses when you are talking about realism, you are one soldier killing thousands of other troops as one, realism was never something that you had to think about when playing a Dynasty Warriors game, he was not hard when you learn how he works like any other Dynasty Warriors that has him to fight against optionally.

Who said anything about realism? He just didn't fit in with the tone of the rest of the map and officers. Everyone else was superhuman, but nobody else was farting energy waves across half the screen. He doesn't fit in the context of the rest of the game.

Even in some of the sillier characters in earlier games that shot lasers and stuff were confined to the fan users. Lu Bu has magic beyond even the silliest versions of the fan users in earlier entries.