Samurai Warriors 5 Is Coming, watch the trailer
The company announced Samurai Warriors 5 during the Nintendo Direct event earlier in the month, and a new trailer released this week confirmed that the game will release on July 27.
Like the other games in the Dynasty Warriors spinoff series, Samurai Warriors 5 takes place during Japan’s Sengoku, or warring states, period, and features 27 different playable characters. The plot follows 16th-century samurai warlord Oda Nobunaga in his quest to unite a fractured Japan.
Samurai Warriors 5 takes place after the end of the Ōnin War, during the Sengoku period, and tells the story of two of the most preeminent military commanders of this period – Nobunaga Oda, and Mitsuhide Akechi. This title includes various eras from this period, including the younger years of Nobunaga, when he was known as “Owari’s Great Fool,” and the period of turmoil and upheaval leading to the Honnō-ji Incident.
All of the game’s character designs have been completely redesigned and re-imagined to help fit the storyline’s Sengoku time period. In total, Samurai Warriors 5features 27 playable characters, including both new and returning warriors, from Ieyasu Tokugawa and Hideyoshi Hashiba to Nō, and Yoshimoto Imagawa. Original character Mitsuki – a Kōga Ninja, has also been added, with other new characters to be announced at a later date.
In addition, all-new Musou actions have been added to the series – including newly designed Musou Frenzy Attacks – elevating the thrill of blowing away hordes of enemy soldiers in exhilarating fashion. These actions are displayed in a vibrant new Japanese ink painting art style, elegantly evolving the Samurai Warriors series to showcase the Sengoku period in stunning fashion as the intertwining stories of Nobunaga and Mitsuhide unravel on screen like a Sengoku period picture scroll.
Samurai Warriors 5 releases on July 27 for PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
