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‘Warriors’ Games Rule, And That’s A Hill I’ll Totally Die On
31.8.2023
Musou games—the large-scale hack-and-slash games typified by series like Dynasty Warriors—often get a bad wrap, with detractors arguing that they’re just monotonous power fantasies lacking in depth. While there’s some truth to that, such a reductive reading misses the point behind games in this...
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Reviews Say It’s Not For Everyone
21.6.2022
The embargo just lifted on Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, the musou-based follow-up to Nintendo’s critically acclaimed strategy game, Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Most reviewers seem to agree that Three Hopes is a worthwhile successor to Three Houses, though many seemed to burn out on...
Fire Emblem Warriors Was Brilliant Actually: A Defense Of Musou
13.4.2022
Every time Nintendo puts out news about Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, I brace myself for a wave of anti-musou sentiment on Twitter. Just search “Fire Emblem” and “musou,” and you’ll see Twitter grousing about how Three Houses’ sequel would be so much better if it wasn’t a musou. As someone...
Sega And Koei Tecmo Donate To Humanitarian Efforts In Ukraine
9.3.2022
Earlier this week, Kotaku reported that Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft and Epic Games suspended Russian sales in the wake of the country’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Now, Japanese companies Sega and Koei Tecmo are doing their part in helping the Ukrainian people, by donating money to...
Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Getting A Musou Spin-Off
9.2.2022
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is coming back, this time as the frenetic hack-and-slash game Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. The Musou-style game arrives on Nintendo Switch on June 24, 2022.Read more
Live-Action Dynasty Warriors Movie Is Hack-And-Slash Brought To Life
9.3.2021
Koei Tecmo’s popular Dynasty Warriors series is getting a live-action cinematic version. It looks wild.Read more
How Persona 5 Strikers Did (And Didn’t) Steal Our Hearts
3.3.2021
At long last, the Phantom Thieves ride again as Persona 5 Strikers—the Atlus RPG turned Koei Tecmo hack and slash—is out in North America. I’m a big Persona 5 nerd and I’ve been anxiously waiting for fellow nerd Luke Plunkett to get far enough into the game that I could finally have someone with...
Persona 5 Strikers: The Kotaku Review
13.2.2021
It’s now or it’s never, and I’ve got toMake my decisionThis time it could be my momentIs this a mirage or a chance to fulfill my mission?Read more
Age of Calamity Is a Zelda History Lesson That Echoes Across Time
3.12.2020
Each entry in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise has been a discrete story following the Hero of Time and Hyrule’s legendary princess as they fight to keep the ultimate evil at bay. At the same time, all of the different games also fit together as pieces of a larger overarching narrative that...