When you're ready to dungeon crawl, you'll be greeted to the dungeon selection screen, which are comprised of squares (regular dungeons) and hexagons (boss dungeons) connected to each other by a series of straight lines. The female mystic is exclusionary to Unlimited Mode, and you'll be talking to her often to fetch request missions (yes, there are side missions you get to accomplish while dungeon crawling) and unlock additional characters you can play as-the 145 unique characters in the game, that is. Only the blacksmith and tea house are present, and oh, a female mystic. Only this time, the NPCs and merchants are different. Oh joy, aren't we loving Unlimited Mode already?Īfter character selection, you'll be greeted to the same, familiar hub area of Story Mode. That's correct, Unlimited Mode requires you to unlock all 145 characters over again, or should I say 140. Once initial character selection has occurred, it is permanently locked until you unlock otherĬharacters exclusively for this mode. You are allowed to select up to five characters instead of the usual three. You are essentially task to complete a series of randomly generated dungeons that involves fighting infinite spawning enemies, collecting treasure, avoiding the strengthening evil miasma and eventually finding an escape point in veins of glowing blue aureoles called "Dragon Spots".Ĭharacter selection is also different from any other mode, in which UNLIMITED MODEis the actual uniquely new mode to Ultimate. I say bring back the real Duel Mode of Maou Sairin! I haven't got a clue what they were trying to pull off with their inclusion, but personally, I think it's a rather poor implementation.
If there was an option to disable the usage of strategy cards, then Duel Mode might actually have some potential. Essentially, this also renders the fluid and smooth combat system of the game something entirely else that you have to re-adapt exclusively for this mode. Most of the time, you don't know what is going on to react soon enough. With you and the opponent spamming hundreds of different cards which all do different things, the actual fighting becomes incredibly random and unpredictable. Hence, that also causes Duel Mode to still be a weird, broken mess. Again, this is all fairly familiar territory if you ever played the Hyper version of the game-nothing much has changed here.
Each character has their own distinctive card and they add various tactics and effects when used during battle, which can be categorized into "Attack", "Auxiliary", "Obstruct" and "Special". A vast difference between regular gameplay and Duel Mode gameplay is the addition of four character specific strategy cards you can equip for battle.
Choosing to fight the CPU will result in challenging yourself to obtain the highest win streak. Character stats including weapons are not factored into this mode, so it's utterly toned down to be better balanced fighting against the CPU, a local buddy or an online opponent. Duel Mode is not entirely new, as it's a straight rip from the Duel Mode introduced in Musou Orochi 2 Hyper (one of the other many incarnations of this game).ĭUEL MODE is as you guessed, a VS mode where the game takes on a 3D arena tag team fighting genre. Musou Orochi 2 Ultimate introduces two new gameplay modes. Thus, to keep things sweet and simple, I'm only going to cover the new stuff that is introduced in Ultimate. If not, I'm anticipating you at least know the game details well. Okay, so if you're reading this review, I'm having an enormous hunch you probably already have played Musou Orochi 2 or its many international releases. Hence, if you're familiar with the Xtreme Legend expansions of the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors, think of it as Musou Orochi 2 Xtreme Legends with Musou Orochi 2 already included. A stand-alone expansion, or expandalone if you want to call it that. Albeit having expansion characteristics including new characters, features and storyline, it goes beyond that classification by including every content in the original game without the need to swap discs back and forth. Musou Orochi 2 Ultimate, or if you would like to be future optimistic, Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate, is a re-release of 2012's Musou Orochi 2 with new content. English names of certain things may be different in Japanese version of the game (Musou Orochi 2 Ultimate) and uses