Samurai Warriors: Chronicles
Samurai Warriors: Chronicles is a hack and slash video game in the Samurai Warriors series. It was released as a launch title for the Nintendo 3DS. Samurai Warriors: Chronicles introduces several new features…
Samurai Warriors: Chronicles is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Omega Force, released 26 February 2011 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Samurai Warriors: Chronicles is
Samurai Warriors: Chronicles is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Omega Force and released in 2011. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Samurai Warriors: Chronicles is a hack and slash video game in the Samurai Warriors series. It was released as a launch title for the Nintendo 3DS. Samurai Warriors: Chronicles introduces several new features not included in prior Samurai Warriors games. While the top screen displays the main game, the bottom screen is used to display maps, KOs, and mission data. A player can switch between four characters during battle, switching the screen to their respective locations as well. Unlike previous titles, where the player chooses a hero and focuses on their story, in Chronicles the player chooses a male (wielding a dai-katana and rifle) or female (wielding dual swords) character which they…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Dynasty Warriors series
Samurai Warriors: Chronicles is the 31st of 58 entries we hold in the Dynasty Warriors series. The next entry was Samurai Warriors 3: Empires in 2011. Its critic score of 50 is 16 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition at 85.
How it was received
Samurai Warriors: Chronicles holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Samurai Warriors: Chronicles launched on 26 February 2011, within three weeks of Dragon Age 2, Bulletstorm, Total War: Shogun 2 and Dragon Age II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age 2, Bulletstorm, Total War: Shogun 2, Dragon Age II.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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