Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate Definitive Edition: Complete Guide To Gauntlet Mode

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If there's something that the Warriors Orochi games know how to do well, it's giving you a ton of things to do - you'll seriously never run out of goals to pursue, characters to experiment with, and fights to master in a game like Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate.

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Gauntlet Mode is one of the three ways to play this game - alongside Story Mode and Duel Mode. It's a fresh experience that features five warriors fighting alongside each other, high stakes, and a tough difficulty spike that might catch you a little unawares when you first boot up a battle.

Gauntlet Mode is an alternative way to play the game with a far more limited cast of playable characters and more difficult challenges. Here are the basic principles that make Gauntlet Mode unique:

You can only choose characters that you have already unlocked in Story Mode.

The actual battles are also very different from what you may be used to. The goal of battles is not to eradicate the enemy but to find an escape point. Dotted throughout each map are Dragon Gates - glowing circles on the ground that you must find. If you hold the Guard button (the left shoulder button) while standing on a Dragon Gate, there's a chance you may reveal the location of the Escape Point. Once you Guard on top of the Escape Point, you have completed the level.

Gauntlet Mode stages are arranged on a map of connected battlefields - each with a difficulty, a set of officers to fight, and a color. There are four colors that stages can have - red, yellow, cyan, and purple. To be able to play on these stages, you must unlock them with a keystone of the same color. At the beginning of a playthrough, you will have a single red keystone,