You’ve got Story Mode, where you will play through several battles telling the stories of one of the ancient Chinese Kingdoms – Wu, Shu, Wei and Jin – in their struggle for supremacy, as well as a story that specifically follows the character Lu Bu and his encounters with each of the kingdoms.

Like its predecessors and crossover titles, you are presented with the choice of several flavors of wanton destruction. So let’s cut in to the meat of things and see how it stands today. There’s almost not much else to say! You might expect that the button-mashing madness of these games would get old after a while, but even after playing a few of these games extensively, I find myself picking one up whenever I get bored, and I’m pretty happy to include this one in the list. Seven main iterations in (The first Dynasty Warriors was actually a fighting game), plus a slew of spin-offs and crossovers later (like Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors, and One Piece Pirate Warriors 3, just to name a few!), and the Chinese Three Kingdoms-based franchise is just as satisfying as ever. Once you see the word Warriors, almost everyone will likely know the formula within: Pick your favorite super-human Warrior, step onto the battlefield, and slice through legion after legion of lowly soldiers and other Warriors with your over-the-top powers.

The Nintendo Switch version was played for this review.

Eager to ride the ever rising wave of ports to the Switch (and, interestingly enough, the Windows 10 Store), our friends at KT are throwing their hat into the ring with a port of Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends, called the Definitive Edition, for Windows 10 via Microsoft Store and Nintendo Switch (both $34.99 and released December 27, 2018). Ah, good ol’ Koei Tecmo (Or was it Tecmo Koei?), I finally get to write about something of yours.

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