Could Koei-Tecmo have made it any more obvious they favor Shu?

[Harassment by Moderation]

1. Way more cutscenes compared to Wei and Wu
2. True Ending gives you an extra CG animation at the end, along with a unique accessory for some inexplicable reason. Getting the Wu true ending gave me jack and squat.
3.Feels like there is more variance between True Ending Path and Vanilla Ending Path, but maybe that's just me
4. Shu path definitely feels like the longest path out of the bunch. But again, maybe that's just me.

I don't think even the author of the novels was this biased for the Shu faction. And I've read them all.

[Action Man]

But Shu isn't even in this game though! :P

The story these games are based off heavily favors Shu - isn't the author a descendant of one of the people serving Shu?

This game did a horrible job of conveying how much time passed - 25 years from the Yellow Turbans to Chibi. So Liu Bei was putzing around for over a decade (between Dong Zhuo and running from Cao Cao), doing ♥♥♥♥ all. Thinking about how much time passed, it soured me a bit on the Green boys.

As these games have progressed, I think Red and Blue have been getting better treatment overall.

I thought that both Green and Red's hypothetical paths were lame. You don't get any real payoff for them like you do with Blue.

[koinzell]

^also blue has the best final stage and battle compared to green and red.

[Gamer de esquerda]

Well, it's not Koei, it's the novel author that favors Shu. In fact, Koei turns a blind eye to many ♥♥♥♥ that Wei and Wu did in the book (especially Cao Cao, Sun Ce, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, these 4 are grade S ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥)

Also, I feel Shu was rather lackluster in this game. It has the fewest generals: until the end of chapter 4, you have just Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and then on the last phase if adds Zhou Cang (who is not really that great) and Zhao Yun. Only on the last 4 battles you get Zhuge Liang and Yue Ying.

While Cao Cao has Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Xiahou Yuan, Jia Xu, Xiahou Dun, Yu Jin, Yue Jin, Li Dian, and later gets Zhang He and Zhen Ji (not to mention early Dian Wei). They even had to cut Cao Ren so he doesn't get too many unique officers.

Wu has Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, Huang Gai, Taishi Ci, Ling Tong, Lu Meng, Sun Shang Xiang, Zhou Tai, Han Dang and later Gan Ning and Lu Su.

Also, the true ending of Shu has absolutely nothing different, only a scene with Zhuge Liang saying "well, that was better than I expected", nothing really changes for Shu in its' "true ending"

[Aoitenshi]

I actually felt that Cao Cao and Sun Jian were given more highlight in this game. Cao Cao was effectively the one who named the main character despite it being his name all along. Wei is also the only faction with three fate alterations and I really liked how they handled Chi Bi from Wei's side.

Sun Jian previously felt like a greedy man who vied for power by hiding the imperial seal, but in Origins his motives were almost noble.

Shu's fate alteration also felt really bland, and I downright hated the way Yueying was portrayed. She had a political marriage with Zhuge Liang while harboring romantic feelings for the MC, like seriously? Meanwhile, her husband was treated as a fraudster who had to rely on MC's power to 'summon' the wind.

[Vahn]

The only hypothetical thats good is Wei, Wu makes no sense i mean the tigers of jiangdong making those decision is non sense, Shu makes no difference and may aswell not have any hypothetical.

[hi friends]

shu is favored in this game? my impression was quite opposite, i thought they favor those red guys

[Yian Yan]

Different factions actually all get little things that'd make you think they're the favored ones. Shu gets outfit changes and a pre-rendered scene when during a chapter transition where others don't. But the other two factions get longer altered fate paths. Wei also has the most gameplay impactful altered fate while Wu is the only one where the leader actually confronts Bailuan and has an impact on his tale. More so in their altered fate.