DX vs. Spirit of Sanada

[Larky]

Spirit of Sanada seems to have more playable characters than this one so I'm slightly leaning more towards that one. Is anyone versed enough in Samurai Warriors games to tell me the pros and cons of the two games?

[BigBadLen]

Spirit of sanada is a much better game, but lacks the optimization. I wish Koei would release a "definitive edition" of Spirit of Sanada, since is the best SW ever released

[eyoung.truth]

Both are good games. Sprit of Sanada is more like a RPG

[Motrini]

Having played all 4 SW4 iterations (4 and Empires on PS4, 4-2 and Sanada on PC), I'd say the original one (with DX being the Complete Edition) is the best BY MILES.
Spirit of Sanada is just a title Koei rushed alongside Nobunaga Ascension to capitalize on their collaboration with NHK for their yearly historical tv drama.
Sure, it technically has more characters than DX, but this really doesn't matter when the vast majority of them either don't appear in the story (and there's no side mode to make up for it) or are stuck to a single side-story battle.
Sanada picks one of the 12 clan stories from SW4, extends it to a full game with tons of padding (gathering materials is especially tedious) while somehow completely fumbling the writing too.
The second part of the game is borderline offensive for how much it ruined the story.
What this also means gameplay-wise is that you'll be stuck playing as the same handful of characters (mostly just Yukimura) for the whole game, the full roster of characters will only be able when you want to replay the battles you've already beaten.

[ChiefCornFlake]

I would say 4 DX is a better game overall. If you are big Yukimura fan and really care about his clan/family story then play Spirit of Sanada.

[RoyalKnight]

4DX for sure, in 4 DX you will have motivation to try all of those 55 character, 50 of them have at least 2 battle with PLOT. The gameplay is simple, just get into battle and fight. the fastest level up system at the WARRIORS series. The 4th weapon solution is funny, you won't stop after you complete the story first time. you will revisit at least 3 times or maybe a dozen times. the max level is 50, you can grow 2 character to 20 at the first match (just 20 mins)

In Spirit of Sanada (SANADA) , only about 20 character have plot. the other 40 guys are just an enemy who appear 1 time or less. The level up system is the hardest and boring thing, you need to "collect" some material on a farming map. escort the npc who is 50 IQ. And the plot only focus on Sanada clan. The level system exhaust me, i never play the 2nd time although the story was good.

How hard is the level system? the max level is 99, and you need to reach 30 to unlock the ALL MOVE-SET.

YOU NEED ONE HOUR TO FARM EXP TO REACH JUST LV30. and there has 60 characters.

[NairBoT]

Sanada is the best warriors game they ever made.

It has the best story and the gameplay is modern but before it got ridiculous with the magic of Orochi 4.

The best warriors spinoff is Sengoku Basara 4: Sumeragi.
Capcom for the win :)

For Sanada on steam, you will need really good PC hardware to maintain 60FPS in towns.
Minimum 3070 Nvidia RTX and an i9 CPU.
I don't think they did a good job optimizing the PC port.

However, I would rate SW4 second best so you can't really lose either way.