Touken Ranbu Warriors review: An enjoyable Musou experience filled with anime boys
The latest Musou game from Koei Tecmo is Touken Ranbu Warriors and stars the handsome anime sword boys from the Touken Ranbu series. Fans familiar with the Samurai Warriors franchise will see some familiar names but not character models.
While the characters in Touken Ranbu Warriors are attractive anime boys, the character models of the world around them are more subdued, closer to what one would expect in a historical drama.
I found Touken Ranbu Warriors to be an enjoyable playthrough as someone who loves the Musou games, even if it felt kind of on the short and easy side. Stages were not the 30 min - 1 hour epic crawls I was used to, but that’s okay.
Touken Ranbu translates into “Wild Dance of Swords” and is a free-to-play CCG (collectible card game) browser game. It initially launched in 2015 in Japan and hit the global audience in April 2021. It’s a popular franchise, in particular with young women.
The game combines the familiar hot anime sword boys (Touken Danshi) from the franchise with the familiar Samurai Warriors/Musou gameplay engine. Players will take command of a character, pick a partner, and journey across time.
The primary story of this game is that there is a demonic force trying to temper with time: The Historical Retrograde Army. They’re causing chaos in the time stream, and it’s up to animated swords to do battle and correct the flow of time.
What makes this interesting in Touken Ranbu Warriors is that the characters occasionally have to do things they may disagree with, all in the name of the timeline. This includes story moments during the Date Masamune chapter.
Date Masamune’s historical timeline led to the warlord failing to unite Japan, and several actions could have been taken to correct that. Instead,
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