History VideoGame / SamuraiWarriors

** Nagamasa Azai, Battle of Anegawa. Even if he is exhausted, he will continue pressing the attack.

The voice acting is goofy at times (witness Hideyoshi declare, "Let's make our enemies beg us for peace!" and BadAss Honda Tadakatsu's borderline lisp), and the difficulty encompasses downright stupid allied NPC's and enemy officers who love to gang up on you* , but you'll learn something about Japanese history; just remember that Tokugawa Ieyasu did not actually fight the Battle of Sekigahara with a spear that shot cannon balls.

* MoraleMechanic: The series eats and breathes morale. Morale determines who wins the battles when you're not in the area, and can make enemies harder to fight if they have a lot of it. You can reduce overall enemy morale and raise your own by killing troops, defeating enemies, and activating (or preventing) certain events. It's taken even farther in Samurai warriors, where individual troops have their own morale. Killing a troops leader causes him to run off. Defeating an officer has the potential of making everyone run.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic - Again, those feathers Nobunaga (pitch black) and Mitsuhide (pure white) keep shedding all over the place.

* HollerButton - The ability to summon a horse, exclusive to Keiji, Yukimura and Toshiie.
** Made universal in the third installment. You can even summon a generic horse out of nowhere if you didn't start with one.

See also ''SengokuBasara'' - which is what many say these games would be like on crack, and ''VideoGame/PokemonConquest'' which uses the character designs from ''Samurai Warriors 3.'' See also NobunagasAmbition, which uses the character designs from the series often it's gameplay is basis for ''Pokémon Conquest''.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: Less Awesome but more fun, In SW2 Nene has a skill in which she can transform into any nearby character...even enemy ones. Yes, even those countless mooks you'll probably spend a lot of your time mercilessly butchering.

** In SW2: Empires, custom characters using the sword, spear, naginata or Nene's moveset can use this skill too.

* CrossOver: ''{{PokemonConquest}}'', in the sense that the character designs for Nobunaga, Oichi, Mitsuhide, Shingen and Kenshin are ''all'' lifted directly from ''Samurai Warriors 3''.
* ElaborateEqualsEffective: Played straigth with the various weapons.

See also ''SengokuBasara'' - which is what many say these games would be like on crack, and ''PokemonConquest'' which uses the character designs from ''Samurai Warriors 3.'' See also NobunagasAmbition, which uses the character designs from the series often it's gameplay is basis for ''PokemonConquest''.

* {{Awesomebutimpractical}}: Less Awesome but more fun, In SW2 Nene has a skill in which she can transform into any nearby character...even enemy ones. Yes, even those countless mooks you'll probably spend a lot of your time mercilessly butchering.

* ''Sengoku Musou Chronicle 2'' (Nintendo 3DS, 2012)

See also ''SengokuBasara'' - which is what many say these games would be like on crack, and ''PokemonConquest'' which uses the character designs from ''Samurai Warriors 3.''

* [[MarySue Gary Stu/Mary Sue]]: Any given Edit Character can be seen as this but special mention has to go to the protagonists of ''Chronicles'' as everyone they meet can become a close friend (even romance is hinted with some characters), they lose very few battles and are considerred among the most important people of the era along with Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The first three stages in Keiji's story in the third game involves Toshiie trying to keep up with his nephew as a warrior in what seems like a story that would better suit Toshiie than Keiji. Then he dies between stages 3 and 4 and [[AbortedArc the plot is dropped]] as Keiji just works with Kanetsugu until the end with only a brief mention of Toshiie in stage 4.

See also ''SengokuBasara'' - which is what many say these games would be like on crack.

* [[AutoScrollingLevel Rail Shooter]] [[DoesntLikeGuns With A]] [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katana]]: Samurai Warriors Katana for the Wii. [[BetterThanItSounds We Are Not Making This Up]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The first three stages in Keiji's story in the third game involves Toshiie trying to keep up with his nephew as a warrior in what seems lake a story that would better suit Toshiie than Keiji. Then he dies between stages 3 and 4 and [[AbortedArc the plot is dropped]] as Keiji just works with Kanetsugu with only a brief mention of Toshiie in stage 4.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The first three stages in Keiji's SW3 story involve Toshiie trying to keep up with his nephew as a warrior in what seems like a story that would better suit Toshiie as a story than Keiji. Then he dies between stages 3 and 4 and the plot is [[AbortedArc dropped]] as Keiji just works with Kanetsugu with only a brief mention of Toshiie in stage 4.

* BottomlessMagazines: All of the gun-type weapons have unlimited ammunition and don't need to be reloaded manually by the player (but there is a token effort at animating reloads during combos).