Warriors: Abyss review: this Hades-inspired Musou is stuck in purgatory

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Warriors: Abyss MSRP $25.00 Score Details Pros

• Tons of characters
• Intense, satisfying combat
• Creative squad building hook

• Low-quality presentation
• Bland art
• Restrictive progression

If I had to design the perfect fate for Koei Tecmo’s cast of Musou heroes, it would probably look likeWarriors: Abyss. I mean let’s face it: These folks aren’t going to the good place. No matter how well-intentioned their crusades have been, the stars of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors have killed millions of people apiece at this point. It only seems fitting that they’d wind up in Hell, forced to fight an endless, tedious war on demonkind.

While I’d like to imagine that this was the creative intention behind Warriors: Abyss, its origin is likely more clinical than that. The new game takes the action of Dynasty Warriors and shrinks it down into a roguelike that not-so-subtly riffs on Hades. It’s a cheeky copycat that goes through hoops to fit historical heroes into a sparse underworld adventure full of arena battles. It’s completely absurd

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Warriors: Abyss brings some unique twists to a formula that has been imitated to death, creating a deceptively complex action game with lots of combat nuances to dig into. Those promising ideas ultimately go to waste in a shallow, repetitive roguelike that never quite understands what makes Hades so devilishly fun.

Poor presentation

Warriors: Abyss wastes no time establishing its absurd premise. A bubbly demon named Enma has lost control of the underworld to a monster, Gouma. She needs an army to beat it, so who better than the stars of both Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors? After all, what’s one little demon compared to the more threatening Lu