*spoiler* Honestly there is not point in saving someone fated to die

[Lupus Il Burlesco]

I was expecting a whole hypothetical route like DW8 when i saved Sun Jian and Sun Ce here but, lazy devs are like yeah you did but they will vanish forever faking their death hehe

[koinzell]

Try the wei hypothetical rout.

i think wu and shu were halfbaked,
Even the final battle in wei post chibi were actually big and tough, making it seem like its the true ending/rout.

[Lupus Il Burlesco]

Ty

[awanderingswordsman]

Nobody in shu route dies no matter what by this point in the story so they hypothetical route just adds one scene with bailuan in the ending. Actually worthless. Wu's however isn't worthless it's actively awful. You gotta beat people in an impossibly short time limit for your correct difficulty all for them to just fake their death and not change anything.

Wei route however has a real hypothetical even though it's still minor. You save Dian Wei and he doesn't just decide to retire or fake his death and is actually in the rest of the battles and then Guo Jia is the same way and then in the battle of chi bi you need both alive for guo jia to predict the fire attack allowing you to stop it and win the campaign and unite the land (which also means you don't fight the battle of huorang pass on the true route).