I remember that when "Sengoku Matchless 5" was first announced, I was stupid, and the change in ink painting style made me mistake it for the peerless version of "Samurai Shodown" next door, and then the new images of Oda Nobunaga, Mitsuhide Wise and Nonghime (Gui Di) that were released later were also shocked, which basically completely broke with the past generations at least in terms of graphics and human settings.
It is actually a good thing that the new work can have obvious changes from the past. The series has reached the 4th generation and even 4-2, Sanada Maru, to some extent, regardless of the character design, story depiction methods and combat system have reached a bottleneck period, if you do not make some substantial changes, simply go the old way into an increased sequel, I am afraid that the series will also go downhill.
Back to the point, this time I got the demo version of "Warring States Matchless 5" in advance, although I can only play the first three chapters of the story mode, but to what extent this work is innovated, I can still glimpse one or two.
Combat system
The battle modes of "Warring States Matchless 5" mainly include the story mode of Peerless Martial Arts, the Free Mode, and the Jiancheng Martial Arts. The story mode is divided into Oda Nobunaga and Mitsuhide's dual protagonist lines, which are advanced in a chapter-style manner, with one chapter containing multiple levels, and the other characters playing in sporadic side level. Except for a few levels, most levels can choose two warriors to play and switch at any time, and also support 2P joining, offline and online. In addition to the main quests in the level, special missions will also be triggered at specific locations or times, which will not only affect the development of the battle situation, but also increase the evaluation rewards after the war.
Chapter selection screen
Peerless martial arts level evaluation
Free mode is to play the level of the main line to brush casually, there is nothing to say, as for the Fort city performance, it is basically a brush brush mode, this is left to the end.
There are 39 characters that can be used in this game, of which 29 are matchless warriors, and 2 are the older versions (prime years) of Oda Nobunaga and Mitsuhide Akira, so in essence, there are 27 people. The other 10 are similar to NPC warriors with no double faces, which cannot be used in story mode, and can only be used in free mode and Kenjo mode. As for how to get the Peerless FACE NPCs, they can be used when they are killed by the story in the Peerless Martial Arts Story Mode.
The Shinji World Line can be used when it is bundled
In terms of martial arts movements, it is still dominated by general attack + C skills, and the speed and various incomparable are still there, which is not much different from the previous game. However, this time, not everyone has a set of independent actions, but goes with the weapon, somewhat similar to "True Three Kingdoms Matchless 6". The weapons in this game are the Big Tai Knife, the Tai Dao + Arquebus Gun, the Knife, the Double Knife, the Gun, the Big Gun, the Axe Knife, the Sledgehammer, the Hand Armor, the Bow, the Cannon, the Lock Hammer, the Ninja Knife, the Drum, and the Talisman, a total of 15 kinds. The action mods of each weapon are the same, the difference is only in the unique C technique of the invincible weapon, there is no non-proud weapon, and it cannot be as easy to use as the Three Kingdoms, and one person can only be equipped with one weapon. The Peerless Face NPC Warrior doesn't have a unique C skill, and honestly there's no use value unless there's a special love for the character...
Although the weapon mods are the same, in fact, the characteristics of each weapon are very distinct, with the unique C skill, even if the weapons are the same, some characters can still play different routines. In addition, this game has added a new action system "flash skill", key combination launch, roughly divided into attacks and auxiliary two categories, can be used unlimited times, that is, there is CD time. Flash skills can be carried up to four, the game can only configure one attack flash skill and three auxiliary flash skills, attack flash skills can be directly released, do not need to match C skills; The auxiliary flashing skills are added to the attack and defense acceleration plus unparalleled, and the shadow technology shrink version of the previous game is also divided into this.
Weapons have proficiency settings, with the increase in proficiency will unlock more flash skills, want to bring more attack flash skills need to practice proficiency, training degree up with four attack flash skills is not a problem, I personally good reckless, hit to the middle of the game usually inconclusive on a set of matchless + four flash skills directly sent away, send away the can not go to make up for the set of C skills. In fact, the setting of the flash skill is a bit similar to "True Three Kingdoms Matchless 8" and the big banana next door, and the flash skill system that has played these should be able to get started soon.
It's still cool to have four attack flashes
5 generations in terms of difficulty has improved, ordinary and difficult difficulty (sorry simple difficulty forgot to try), ordinary enemies will have a small hegemony, in many cases the first or even the second hand can not play hard straight, even C1 skills can not be picked up, incidentally mention this enemy attack desire is very high, the backhand on a set of C2 to give you a stun. The enemy will sometimes be full of red light to charge up, and show the attack range, in this case, the general attack or C skill can not be interrupted, can only use the peerless or new action flash, because the peerless slot is difficult to accumulate before forming a routine, the setting of this move is obviously to let you use the flash, an auxiliary flash can be interrupted. In some levels, there will be strong enemies with black qi, such enemies will have two tubes of blood bars, and the attack power of the strong overlord body is also high, and I will enjoy this treatment when I first encounter Yoshimoto Imakawa in the process, and the first bow of my Tokaido has finally survived.
The difficulty is not only reflected in the warriors, some special classes are also tricky. Just talk about what I have encountered, archers are not like other peerless sporadic archery yin you a shot, but a salvo of arrows, if not defended to be very painful; iron artillery will pose a formation to a second or even three stages of attack, straight line frontal rush up is easy not to get up, and then the head iron point can experience the situation of changjing in the battle of Changjing County; the spearmen will set up a gun array, once close to be forced to fly to the ground, it is a difficult class of troops, because unlike other classes are launched in formation, the spearmen can launch even if only a single soldier can launch a gun array. When hitting the number of combos, it is easy to be yin; shield soldiers and gunmen, but the shield wall is erected, the general attack will not be blown away, compared to the not very annoying class, riding a horse directly jumped over and ignored it; although the taiko soldier will not attack, but the area where he is located will make the enemy general and the soldier's defense power higher, as with the addition of a layer of iron wall, when the bottom of the game screen turns yellow, it means that there are taiko drum soldiers in the current area, it is recommended to give priority to breaking.
The above-mentioned soldiers in addition to the Taiko drum soldiers other systems are recommended to use flash skills to solve, the practice is indeed so (of course, do not want to fight can also go around), it can be seen that the main action system of this time is flash skills, not skilled or take the old way to fight, then the difficulty is very high, after mastery you can go through the clouds and flow.
Finally, let's talk about Kenjo Performing Martial Arts, in fact, it is a bit like the True Three 7's General Star Pattern, but it is much simpler and rougher than that. There are only defensive-type levels in Fortified Martial Arts, which can be ended by defending the city or knocking down the enemy general in five minutes. There are three waves of enemy attacks, and the enemy general will appear in the third wave. Each battle randomly spawns three mini-quests, each with 30 seconds added. The level has an evaluation system, according to the number of soldiers killed and enemy generals, the number of combos, the number of completed tasks divided into SABCD five levels, the higher the level, the more generous the rewards. In this mode, each warrior will have a favorability setting, which will increase when they are out together, and when the goodwill is full, they can watch the dialogue plot in the grass. Pay attention to the only warriors who can brush good feelings, and whether there is a bond will be prompted before the expedition.
An optional task for Kenjo to perform martial arts
Grow up system
In the 5th generation, the warrior will have six basic attributes of stamina, attack, equestrianism, peerless, defense, and agility, which can be increased by increasing the level, in addition to this game, the skill disk has been newly added, consuming common skill points to light up skills, and skill points can be obtained by swiping the level.
The types and proficiency of weapons have already been mentioned above, and will not be repeated, focusing on forging. The weapon forging of this game should be carried out in the facility blacksmith shop, which can smelt weapons, decompose weapons, and forge weapons. Smelting weapons is the installation of skills on the empty slots of weapons, and skills require skill beads that can be swiped in levels. The installed skills cannot be covered, only upgraded, and the upgrade does not require the same attribute skill beads, as long as there is money.
With money can be directly strengthened to full
Decomposing weapons can get money and skills embedded in weapons, and the maximum amount of skill storage is currently only 20, so in addition to some rare skills, other basic skills such as attack speed do not have to be used stingily, anyway, you can get it back after decomposition. Forged weapons can only be unlocked when they are at level 3, and the main function is to change the type of weapon, retain the weapon skill and rarity after the change, and the changed weapon can no longer be converted. At present, only the third chapter (difficulty) has been completed, and the highest weapons in terms of weapons are only second-level weapons, and higher-level weapons and secret weapons are temporarily unknown.
In addition to the blacksmith shop, the game also has facilities such as a dojo, a grocery store, and stables. The dojo can perform operations such as strengthening martial arts and changing classes, and in addition to strengthening the skill plate, you can also consume merit points and proficiency points to increase the level of martial artists and weapon proficiency levels, both of which can be swiped in the level. Each warrior can bring three kinds of soldiers, this soldier is not with you in the level, but actively summoned, the moment of summoning will launch a special attack, and will stay on the battlefield for a period of time. Summoning class refresh CDs is short, so you can use it more than once, but in fact, killing Red Eye will often forget to have this feature.
The grocery store will sell some of the props carried in the matchless martial arts, as well as weapons, skill beads, etc., carrying props in the system in Battle 4 is not detailed, and the props that have not played Battle 4 can be simply understood as the props used in battle at any time. In addition to the horses obtained in the level, horses can also be purchased in the stables, and each horse can learn up to three skills. Imparting skills and imparting experience in the stable allows the horse to inherit the skill and experience, but to consume the teaching horse, exercise caution when performing these two instructions.
Dojo, blacksmith shop, grocery store, stables these facilities the initial level is only 1, many advanced goods and functions need to be strengthened to unlock, which has to go to the Fort city martial arts mode brush wood, ore, cloth and other materials, the amount of upgrading is not small, brush it.
Story and characterization
With Wise Mitsuhide and Oda Nobunaga as the protagonists, it is inevitable that people are not reminiscent of last year's Ōkawa drama "Kirin Advent", if there is no connection between the two, War 5 and Kirin have adopted the setting of Hikari shows that began with saito's family, and Mifuchi Fuji hide, Ashikaga Yoshiaki has no double face, Yoshiaki is also counted, Mitsufuchi This unpopular character can have no matchless face You want to say that there is no contact I do not believe; but if there is a connection, Hikari and Guidi have no shackles, you know that Kirin Ligui Butterfly liked Hikari at the beginning is Hikari, It would have been fun to do in Battle 5, but it wasn't used. In addition, Hosokawa Fujitaka does not have a double face, and it is impossible to say that he does not have a double face when he really walks the Kirin line. In short, there is no need to dwell too much on the similarity between the two, from the perspective of the story after playing the first three chapters, it is more like an original story with the shell of the unicorn and completely full of glorious routines inside.
These original stories make the character image very rich and three-dimensional, and it can be seen that they are seriously telling stories, but they are a bit larger than the history. It is true that the previous peerless is also a mixed plot of history plus Yoshinoshi, but no less outrageous to the battle of the barrel narrow room Nobunaga's sneak attack has long been seen by Imagawa Yoshimoto this take-off setting, more than this one, the butterfly married Nobunaga instead of Nobunaga ran to Saito's house to hold a wedding, the Battle of Inabayama Castle decisively fought Saito Yoshiryu ... This drama is really too dramatic. Fortunately, at least the world line is still tightened, and the plot of cp is also stuffed with a lot of sugar, which is a credit offset.
This wave of MPs lost
How sweet cp's sugar is, if you are Nobunaga X-ray show that faction, it is a burst, with a picture to interpret:
It can only be said that it is worthy of the main nobunaga and Mitsuhide, if it is not the back of the butterfly has an important significance, "I should be in the car should not be in the car" The lyrics are very suitable for her.
At one point, I suspected that Gui Di was the same wife
Although this game adopts the style of cartoon rendering ink painting, I personally feel that the glory has improved in the storyboarding and CG performances, and the combination with the ink style feels bright, especially the opening of the wise chapter, from the Honnōji barbecue to the transition of the first battle of the light show, which is worth blowing up. In addition, the character's ink style character design and peerless performance are also very good, and the freeze-frame picture after the peerless is quite ornamental.
When it comes to human design, we have to emphasize the changes in this work. In addition to the complete redo of the standing painting, even the character personality has been almost completely changed. The more prominent is the protagonist Nobunaga, at least in the first three chapters, is completely a hot-blooded fool, of course, the fool also carries a little calculation, which is far from the previous image of the demon king; Gui Di also changed his previous beautiful image and transformed into a "puppet" girl with a cold and poisonous tongue. Among them, my most satisfied personality transformation is the two Kai and Echigo, Takeda Shingen is no longer the sunny fat man with the fan before, but a fierce tough guy who combines wisdom and gloom; as for Uesugi Josta, oh no, it is Uesugi Kenshin (CV: Kotsu Kazuyuki), and he is no longer a calm uncle who does not like to talk, but a hot-blooded warrior who snatched the lines of Asai justice next door, and I always feel that he will roar out ripples in the next second.
epilogue:
"Sengoku 5" in the picture and human settings of the earth-shaking changes I think is a kind of inevitability, the so-called old do not go to the new do not come, willing to find new focus is worthy of appreciation. The system of rubbing the essence of the Warring States, the Three Kingdoms and even the Great Snake together is also useless, normal level play, unparalleled if this system is to completely change the risk, at least in the Warring States I think it should not be tried again. There are many original plots, and the intention of selling CP is very obvious, to be honest, it is a bit of a gamble, whether players are willing to buy it is probably to divide the group.