Learning history through Dynasty Warriors! The women of the Three Kingdoms

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Video by Matt S. The latest in my series of videos looking at the real history behind Koei Tecmo’s Warriors games! As it was International Women’s Day this week, I felt it would be only appropriate to do a video focused on women in Warriors games. Sadly, the real history…

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Against all odds the new Romance of the Three Kingdoms mobile game is actually worthwhile

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Article by Matt S.  Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Legend of CaoCao is a new free-to-play game that has been released on mobile devices by Nexon and Koei Tecmo, and it’s surprisingly good. Before I get to that though, you’ll see through this article I refer to “The Legend…

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VIDEO: Learning history through Dynasty Warriors! Battle of Red Cliffs!

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Video by Matt S. The Battle of Chibi, or Battle of Red Cliffs, is one of the most important battles in ancient Chinese history, and really was the catalyst for the entire Three Kingdoms era. Related reading: Matt’s review of Dynasty Warriors 9. As such, it’s a big part of…

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Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition has an awesome cast, and this trailer will remind you of that

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News by Matt S.  We’ve played Hyrule Warriors a couple of times now; on the Wii U and then on the 3DS. That doesn’t mean we’re any less interested in seeing it on the Nintendo Switch though. Not where it’s the complete package, with more characters to play with than…

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Review: Dynasty Warriors 9 (Sony PlayStation 4)

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Review by Matt S. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the most dense, lengthy, weighty books written in any language. It’s 2,339 pages long. For context, War and Peace, the historical novel that people always love to reference as being a massive slog of a read, is barely…

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VIDEO: Learning history through Samurai Warriors! Okehazama and Nobunaga Oda

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Video by Matt S. Okehazama was the first major battle in the Sengoku period (and the first “level” in most Samurai Warriors games). It was a battle that asserted Nobunaga Oda’s tactical mastery and the battle that put the events of the Sengoku period in motion. Here we look at…

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