![]() ![]() He is an entirely fictional character introduced alongside Amalia van Kyre after the decisive attack on Sakai. ![]() The game is well designed and easy to learn on the whole, and the right mix of strategy and action makes for a very enjoyable game.Dominico Sanchez is an optional officer in Kessen III. There is so much content packed in the game, considering the number of maps and skills that nothing feels repetitive. Kessen III may suffer from some problems with how the units behave, but on a whole the game is a lot of fun. Sometimes if you leave some of your units by themselves and go off to handle other units, the AI units can wipe out your soldiers, since the computer controlled units seem to have more experience built into them. The other problem is also AI related, but has got to do with the other units. For one, support units don’t seem to have any path finding abilities built into the game. This game may be great on so many levels, but of course, as with so many good games, it is also inflicted with some shortcomings. You can either finish the game or find all the hidden items. You can succeed in the game whether or not you choose to get into the extras. Having said that, its good that unlike some other games, Kessen III, does not force you into playing those extras in order to get to any end. Once you are done with all the fighting, you can still tinker around with a lot more details if you want to. Units, similarly, have “troop skills,” that are essentially special charge attacks which allow them to inflict most damage to enemies.īattles of course are a major part of the game, but it isn’t as if the makers haven’t given enough else to do. Skills include those where you can increase the attack potential of your units, heal them, and many more. Each general you control has a unique ability called “officer skills,” and you can use these skills during battles for various purposes. In Rampage mode, you can use pure brute force on the enemies. From there on in, you just have to make best use of your soldiers in order to achieve your goal. There are several battles scattered all over Japan, and before the start of each battle, you will need to assign your units and support squads to the given locations on the battlefield. When you are there, you control all the attacks and the movement. In various battles you can switch to any unit that is alive still. Formation also doesn’t play as big a role as it did in the previous games, and the aim here is mainly to keep the soldiers tightly together and focused. Kessen III, unlike its predecessors, requires you to form smaller units with no more than a score or more soldiers and are led by a fully involved officer. So in this game, the strategy is much more specific where you have to not only learn how to get good at the fighting part of things, but also how to exploit the terrain to your advantage. There is also added terrain features such as forests, rivers and lakes, and even some fortresses. Realism (as much as there can be in games) is brought back to battles which now take place in smaller areas. We see ourselves back in the 16th century where Odu Nobunaga endeavors to unite Japan. In this edition of the game however, a lot has changed. The previous Kessen games were slightly unrealistic: they featured mass battles that were fought on vast expanses of flat land, and officers could create huge cracks in the land to do away with enemy armies in large numbers. The best feature of the game is the fact that although it is mainly a strategy based game, Kessen III offers enough hacking and slashing opportunities to fall in the action genre as well. Kessen III, the second sequel in the Kessen series, offers a great balance of tactical decision making and raw action, that is sure to more than satisfy any strategy gamer. ![]()
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