i truly love this game but i played for over 350 hours before accidentally finding a fairy i knew of their existence but i thought my game was bugged cuz i never saw them

Yeah, this is truly a brilliant Warriors title. Every move set is so distinct and the  gameplay is so fluid, smooth, and satisfying. Makes me happy that it’s a celebration of one of my favorite game series also 😍

I don't usually miss important dialogue but if you do get confused there IS a battle log you can check to see anything you might have missed.

Also known as "the game where people discovered that musou games are good and different between each other and reviewers realized they'd now have to actually properly review the new ones or they'd get figured out"

BTW, if you Focus Spirit Attack a boss, it reveals its weakpoint for attacks.

You can also use a fairy with double bombos to greatly reduce their defence or a fairy skill to boost your own damage, there's also the "extreme crush" skill; this would both mitigate your issue with the bosses AND make you use your fairies more often.

You can also use potions on top of this, which, knowing you, you probably never really used :P

Worth noting about the pallete swaps: almost all of them are references to other Zelda games. People have gone in depth before on what each one is a reference to. Not saying more characters shouldn't have had full alts, but they aren't completely thoughtless.

To be fair, a good chunk of the palette swap costumes ARE references. You can tell by certain color schemes. Like Zant's costume where he is mostly a teal blue, but his helmet is gold, is a reference to the Wind Waker boss Gohdan. Or Lana's costume where she has a red and pink outfit and green hair, references the Deku Princess from Majora's Mask.

This is easily in my Top 3 Favorite Warriors games! Love this game to death.
Your rating for this game makes me so happy! Honestly, I feel KOEI should be looking at what they did with this game going further with future games.

Man this game is good. Its so good that my brother regularly plays with me. It has so much content that after all this time If have fully comepleted one map. So much content.

3 days of agony waiting,  but will all be worth it!

Someday my soul willing we'll get a Power Rangers Musou where each team is one playable character somehow and I will truly ascend.

Don't know if anyone's mentioned it or if this will even be seen after 2 years but a big help with the giant bosses is the focus spirit.
If you use the special attack during focus spirit it instantly knocks down the giant boss to weak point gauge. It's good when they expose less often at lower HP.

Also the fairies are super useful to me. You can use their magic meter for a big explosion of their element, which after level 50 is capable of clearing a keep instantly or nearly instantly depending and each element has a different effect.
The fire fairy effect Bombos halves the defense of everything after level 50 so it can really help with damage sponges too. I've done a lot with the fairy systems and I think people sleep on it too much honestly. If nothing else the explosions are great for ko count.

Worth the wait, Chris! Loved hearing your enthusiasm and positivity for this title- it truly is awesome.

I’m especially hyped for Age of Calamity & Pirate Warriors 3 or 4 since those are my personal favorite spin-offs.

I think people easily forget it was also on the 3ds... Also that amiibo would have been sick...

Chris I really enjoy your channel, Keep it up.

apparently i was one of the 5 people that had a wii u, this game was one of the main resons i bought one too

DAMN dude, i love this game so much. its time to play it again! i played the hell out of the wii u version. but the def edition i'm still not that far like in the wii u version

I knew you was going to give this a 10/10. Lool

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the fact that the cutscenes are no longer in-engine anymore. Don't get me wrong, it's not a huge deal, but not getting to see the BOTW outfits (or ANY outfits for that matter) in cutscenes kinda hurts my soul

glad i finally got home and watched! great review and cant wait to keep playing!! i was always intimidated by how large adventure mode is, but this gave me the push i needed!