Samurai Warriors (2004) (VG) Sengoku musô (original title)

Director:

Hisashi Koinuma

Writers:

Akira Ishiguro (scenario and event design)
Shungo Nishimura (scenario and event design)
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Genre:

Action | Fantasy

Plot Keywords:

Horse | Mask | Castle | Multiple Endings | Coward

Cast

Takeshi Kusao	...	Yukimura Sanada (voice: Japanese version)
Jûrôta Kosugi	...	Nobunaga Oda (voice: Japanese version)
Jôji Nakata	...	Kenshin Uesugi / Ieyasu Tokugawa (voice: Japanese version)
Yûji Ueda	...	Keiji Maeda (voice: Japanese version)
Nobuyuki Hiyama	...	Masamune Date / Kennyo Honganji (voice: Japanese version)
Daisuke Gôri	...	Shingen Takeda (voice: Japanese version)
Hikaru Midorikawa	...	Mitsuhide Akechi / Edit Man (voice: Japanese version)
Hisao Egawa	...	Goemon Ishikawa (voice: Japanese version)
Naomi Shindô	...	Ranmaru Mori (voice: Japanese version)
Ai Maeda	...	Oichi / Edit Woman (voice: Japanese version)
Hiroshi Isobe	...	Magoichi Saika / Narration (voice: Japanese version)
Wakana Yamazaki	...	Okuni (voice: Japanese version)
Takaya Kuroda	...	Hanzo Hattori (voice: Japanese version)
Yûko Nagashima	...	Kunoichi (voice: Japanese version)
Mariko Suzuki	...	Noh (voice: Japanese version)
Munehiro Tokita	...	Hideyoshi Hashiba / Dozan Saito (voice: Japanese version)
Takahiro Kawachi	...	Yoshimoto Imagawa (voice: Japanese version)
Yûgo Takahashi	...	(voice: Japanese version)
Keisuke Baba	...	(voice: Japanese version)
Takayuki Sasada	...	Nagamasa Azai (voice: Japanese version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Berón	...	Yukimura Sanada (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Beau Billingslea	...	Kenshin Uesugi (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Steve Blum	...	Keiji Maeda (voice: English version) (uncredited)
G.K. Bowes	...	Kunoichi (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Richard Cansino	...	Yoshimoto Imagawa / Hideyoshi Hashiba (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Richard Epcar	...	Shingen Takeda / Toshitsune Maeda / Tadanao Matsudaira (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Melissa Fahn	...	Okuni (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Michael Forest	...	Yoshitatsu Saito / Nobumori Sakuma Type Generic Officer (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Michael Gough	...	Mitsuhide Akechi (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Chris Kent	...	Nobunaga Oda (voice: English version) (uncredited)
R. Martin Klein	...	Ieyasu Tokugawa / Kagetsuna Katakura / Mitsunari Ishida Type Generic Officer / Shoukei (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Lex Lang	...	Magoichi Saika / Harunaga Ohno (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Wendee Lee	...	Oichi (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn	...	Noh (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Tony Oliver	...	Ranmaru Mori / Sky Ninja / Fire Ninja (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Bob Papenbrook	...	Goemon Ishikawa / Captain (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Douglas Rye	...	Nobunaga Oda (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Skip Stellrecht	...	Masamune Date / Nagamasa Azai (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Kim Strauss	...	Hanzo Hattori (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Kirk Thornton	...	Kennyo Honganji / Katsuyori Takeda / Morichika Chosokabe Type Generic Officer (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Dan Woren	...	Date Vassal / Lu Bu (Survival Mode) (voice: English version) (uncredited)

Directed by
Hisashi Koinuma

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Akiko Hasegawa		scenario and event design
Akira Ishiguro		scenario and event design
Shungo Nishimura		scenario and event design
Hiroyuki Numoto		scenario and event design

Produced by
Yoshiki Sugiyama	....	producer

Sound Department
Julien Cook	....	sound editor: English voices, VoiceGroup Inc.
Ippo Igarashi	....	sound designer
Masato Koike	....	sound designer
Masa	....	sound designer
Yasuhiro Misawa	....	sound designer
Kenji Nakajo	....	sound designer
Shinichiro Nakamura	....	sound designer
Hidehisa Nakazono	....	sound designer
Michihiko Shichi	....	sound director
Mari Yoshida	....	sound designer

Visual Effects by
Yasuharu Fuchi	....	CGI designer
Jun Fujii	....	CGI designer
Ayumu Fukase	....	CGI designer
Tsuyoshi Fukuyama	....	CGI designer
Yuzuru Hangai	....	CGI designer
Yoshihiro Iihama	....	CGI designer
George Ikezawa	....	CGI designer
Kenichi Izawa	....	CGI designer
Azusa Kato	....	CGI designer
Tomomi Kiryu	....	CGI designer
Keita Kobayashi	....	CGI designer
Daisuke Kojima	....	CGI designer
Sachio Kusakabe	....	CGI designer
Wataru Maeda	....	CGI designer
Yuta Matsunaga	....	CGI designer
Mikio Matsunami	....	CGI designer
Takeo Miyamoto	....	CGI designer
Hiroshi Moriguchi	....	CGI designer
Yukihiro Nakamura	....	CGI designer
Takeshi Nakashima	....	CGI designer
Yasukazu Ono	....	CGI designer
Yuka Orihashi	....	CGI designer
Hiroshi Oshima	....	CGI designer (as Hiroshi Ohshima)
Kazuya Oshima	....	CGI designer (as Kazuya Ohshima)
Bungo Oshita	....	CGI designer (as Bungo Ohshita)
Atsushi Ota	....	CGI designer
Takahito Otome	....	CGI designer
Satoshi Saka	....	CGI designer
Takahiro Sakuma	....	CGI designer
Hiroshi Shoji	....	CGI designer
Chiharu Suzuki	....	CGI designer
Wataru Suzuki	....	CGI designer
Toshiyuki Takeyasu	....	CGI director
Junko Tanno	....	CGI designer
Hideshi Tatara	....	CGI designer
Koji Yamada	....	CGI designer
Kentaro Yamamoto	....	CGI designer
Keiko Yamazaki	....	CGI designer
Jun Yasuda	....	CGI designer
Kumiko Yoshikawa	....	CGI designer
Yuko Yoshimura	....	CGI designer

Animation Department
Dennis Pena	....	animator
Hiroyuki Suwahara	....	character designer
Toshiharu Suzuki	....	character designer

Other crew
Satoshi Anazaki	....	planner (as Satoshi Anezaki)
Atsushi Arai	....	planner
Charles de Vries	....	voice director: English
James Felper	....	localization staff (as James S. Felper)
Efton Geary	....	voice director: English
Hiroshi Kataoka	....	main programmer
Jun Kawahara	....	planner
Dai Kawai	....	planner
Takahiro Kawai	....	planner
Hiroshi Kimata	....	planner
Yutaka Kobayashi	....	programmer
Shu Matsumoto	....	planner
Tatsuo Mikami	....	localization staff
Toshihiro Ogura	....	motion actor
Tsukasa Satoh	....	voice director: Japanese
Doug Stone	....	voice director: English
Makoto Yamaguchi	....	planner
Yukinori Yokoyama	....	localization producer
Kaoru Yoshida	....	motion actor

Production Companies

• Koei
• Omega Force

Distributors

• KOEI Corporation (2004) (USA) (all media) (PlayStation 2 version)
• KOEI Corporation (2004) (USA) (all media) (Xbox version)
• Koei (2004) (UK) (all media) (PlayStation 2 version)
• Koei (2004) (UK) (all media) (Xbox version)
• Koei (2004) (Japan) (all media) (PlayStation 2 version)
• Koei (2004) (Japan) (all media) (Xbox version)

Other Companies

• Aoni Productions  Japanese voices
• Beijing Koei Software Company  
• Cosmo Technology  
• Creek & River Co. Ltd.  
• D3D  
• Digitalscape Co. Ltd.  
• Fontworks International  
• Japan Action Enterprise Co. Ltd.  
• KOEI Corporation  
• Kenbukai  
• Koei Canada  
• Paranormal Designs  
• Prokion  
• Telecom Sounds  
• Tianjin Koei Software Company  
• VoiceGroup  English voice production and recording
• Wilco Dream Studio  

Also Known As:

"Sengoku musô" - Japan (original title)

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Xbox version) | Dolby (Playstation 2 version)

Certification:

South Korea:12 | USA:T

Company:

Koei

Trivia:

This is the latest in a line of Koei titles where they have used the same group of voice actors. This started with Kessen II, then continued with Dynasty Warriors 4, Dynasty Tactics 2, and Dynasty Warriors 4 Xtreme Legends.

Quotes:

Kunoichi:[using her True Musou attack] Play of the day! I do love this game!

One of my favourite games

One of the things I love about the KOEI games is the way they always combine deep story/history and really cool characters with a fun, easily accessible action genre.

This game, I found, is far more story-orientated than the Dynasty Warriors series. You follow the 15 characters through each of their own story lines, with some amazing FMV sequences and interesting cut-scenes, and the characters themselves are all very diverse and unique, with a wide range of abilities.

In each of the battles you are given (and also have to find) certain complex missions which you must fulfil in order to affect the outcome of the battle. The missions you accomplish often affect the path you're character takes, and they generally give the battles more of an aim than in previous KOEI games and are usually a lot of fun to do and quite intriguing. At the end of each battle you are given a grade based on you're timing, the amount of people killed by your musou attacks (which isn't very fair as some characters have far better musou attacks than others), items collected and missions completed. In between battles you can use experience points you have earned to buy new skills for your characters, which is a really rewarding process.

The main problem with the game is the sound. The in-battle music is awful, made up of annoying, repetitive low-beat rock tunes, and would really suit something sounding a little more authentic and climactic. The voice acting is a mixture of very good and very bad, with a few characters sounding horrible and some others really miscast, although I did enjoy the voices of Nobunaga, Noh, Hanzo, Yukimura and Mitsuhide and thought they added a lot of personality to their characters.

All in all, Samurai Warriors is experimental in its combination of action and strategy and if its a very sophisticated action or strategy game you're looking for, then you might not be entirely satisfied with this game. If however, you appreciate fun, interesting characters and a dramatic, interactive plot with lots of Japanese history this is the game to play.