Warriors Orochi 3 also incorporates a rather entertaining in-game effect that helps with character levelling - though it’s luck-based as to whether or not you’ll encounter it. Experience can be obtained through battle, or “Growth Points” acquired after doing pretty much anything in the game can be cashed in for experience, providing a quick and easy way to bring fresh characters up to speed, or simply to give your favourites a bit of a boost. We begin with the simplest and most obvious: each character has an experience level, and on every level up, their stats rise slightly. There are a number of different aspects to progression in Warriors Orochi 3, so let’s look at them a bit at a time.
And as the series has gone on, more and more influences have been drawn from sources beyond this basic formula, with Warriors Orochi 3 specifically displaying more than a few hints of mechanics from modern mobile RPGs in many place… minus the microtransactions, thankfully. There’s a very action RPG-style loop of gradually levelling up your character, and boosting your power even further with appropriate equipment.
Warriors Orochi 3 isn’t far behind, though, with a full 145 peeps to take charge of in the Ultimate release of the game.īut when presented with that many playable characters, what exactly do you do with all of them? Are you expected to level them all up? Where do you start? Let’s talk progression!Īs anyone who has spent a substantial amount of time with the Warriors series as a whole will tell you, the core appeal of these games is in ongoing character progression. In fact, the most recent installment at the time of writing, Warriors Orochi 4, scored itself a fairly meaningless Guinness World Record for “most playable characters in a hack-and-slash video game” thanks to its 170 cast members. And, of course, this is a number that has only expanded over time. One of the interesting things about the Warriors Orochi series is quite how many playable characters each installment has had on the roster.