#SAMURAI WARRIORS 4 EMPIRES DLC PRICE FULL#
Each full political and battle phase represents a full season's worth of work for your empire. You can only issue a certain amount of commands during each political phase then you are forced into a battle phase where you can choose to invade, defend or skip out on battle altogether. During some political phases, the game offers small cutscenes that change based on what soldiers are in your army and these cutscenes might give your characters enhancements. Anyway, after the first playthrough of the game, I got a good idea of the way it works.Īlong with raising stats of your castle, the political phase allows your army personnel to level up through decision making and it helps to deepen relationships between characters. It's not that the game doesn't explain enough to you, it's just that there is so much to absorb at one time. The game walks you through the political phase with tutorials but I was still all thumbs on my first playthrough. All of these groups give you choices per political phase that you can accept to raise the stats in your castle or you can choose to raise them independently through your leader. You start out with a political subordinate, military subordinate and a personnel subordinate. The political phase starts out with a 3D castle where you appoint a magistrate and then leaders of each political branch that oversee certain groups in your castle.
The political phase allows you to prepare for battle through many categories that help to build your empire. The two main phases of gameplay are the political phase and the battle phase. Once the ambition is fulfilled the game can be over if you choose not to go on and conquer the rest of the map.
The goal of the game is to take control of one empire and fulfill the leader's ambition. The game actually feels a lot better than the original Samurai Warriors 4-II with the added variety that we gain in between the action.Įmpires brings back the full cast that we know from Samurai Warriors 4-II. Samurai Warriors 4 Empires is my first time playing an Empires game so it was all new to me when the political phases rolled around. If you're not familiar with the Empires style of Warriors games then it focuses more on the strategy of the battles but it still retains the usual constant action in between fights. Samurai Warriors 4 Empires is the third expansion for Samurai Warriors 4 and the second game to have the "Empires" style gameplay for the Samurai Warriors franchise.