[Dark Age Iron Savior]

GG2 is a single point in space in which fighting games, arena fighters, musous, tower defenses, real time strategizers, RTS with unit control and maybe a half-dozen other concepts have collapsed together in defiance of any attempts to ever chart the growth and influence of each


Mount & Blade isn't technically musou, right?
But could you mod it into musou?

[Bingle]

[LandRoverAttack]

Maybe someone here is thinking of Bladestorm but not saying so
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[Kinto]

MORE LIKE KUSOU

yessssssssss first one
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[Ymer]

[diplo]

[Schwere Viper]

Geez, pop culture icons get real uppity about Musou.
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[allensmithee]

I fucking love some of these games I aint lying sweeties
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[notbov]

after much reconsideration, Diablo and its clones/ripoffs/buddies are the Western version of Musou

I like those games too
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[Baseballkappe]

[Baseballkappe]

omg the hyrule warriors sound design
this sure is something

also cool i love grimdark black and red everywhere i can't see shit

[Renfrew]

There were Lord of the Rings games in the PS2 generation based on the Two Towers and Return of the King movies that were pretty Musou. Me and my musou buddy spent a lot of time on the Return of the King one in particular.

I haven't played any musou games in a long time, but I remember Samurai Warriors 2 easily being the best, with 1 being an interesting experiment that didn't quite come together the way 2 did and 3 being a lot like 2 but with some of the sheen worn off.
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[Drem]

In the game's defense that video looks like it's on normal difficulty, which no one should ever play a musou on.

Hyrule Warriors's lead game designer is Takahiro Kawai so I think it will be a fun musou (he was lead game designer for Ken's Rage 1, One Piece 1 and 2, and Samurai Warriors 2 which Renfrew just mentioned above^^^^).

[notbov]

I for one think it's great that, within the space of a month, North America is getting 4 different musous, one of which is solely predicated on showing boobs

also disappointed that DQ Heroes's TGS video isn't here yet, even though that isn't a musou according to the developers
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[notbov]

sorry diplo and diplo's IRC friends who I will never meet, I think Hyrule Musou is rad as fuck

dumb rock laid over dumb Zelda music making some kind of weird mix of Zelda orchestral rock and ska

digging the dodge, though I'm wondering who brought that to the table (it being a 3D Zelda thing, Team Ninja doing it or just for flavor)
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[Drem]

I haven't seen how it works in Zelda but One Piece Musou 1 is the first musou I saw to have a dedicated dodge button (which dropped the jump button) that worked for not only evasion but for combo cancels, Bayonetta style dodge offsets, and some other interesting techniques. Naturally One Piece Musou 2 retained it but Fist of the North Star 2 also adopted the dodge button afterwards although that game didn't utilize it very well.

[notbov]

you can combo cancel, but not dodge offset. it works pretty decently because they enjoy dropping Zelda bosses (with boss appropriate strategies, like feeding dodongos bombs) onto the battlefield at the end of missions
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