History YMMV / WarriorsOrochi

** From the third game, while there's tons of broken characters, one character is agreed upon to be the single best character in the whole game, Xiahou Ba. His Special Move increases his attack and movement speed to a ridiculous degree and also works as an InvulnerableAttack, he wields a {{BFS}}, and with an optimal setup you can use the move again by the time it runs out. All of this translates into making him a LightningBruiser with insane offensive power.

*** There's also a number of generic {{Game Breaker}}s available for all characters: using a rare skill that makes all elemental skills activate on every hit meaning all your attacks are unblockable, kill mooks in a single hit and do a percentage of damage to anything stronger on every hit, using officer skills that greatly reduce your Musou consumption and playing as one of the Samurai Warriors characters who can move and attack normally during their Musou while still remainging invincible as long as there's enemies to kill and the rarest is using one of the 2 characters that block attacks while attacking and giving them equipment that allows them to block attacks from any direction and recover life when blocking.

*** There's also a number of generic {{Game Breaker}}s available for all characters: using a rare skill that makes all elemental skills activate on every hit meaning all your attacks are unblockable, kill mooks in a single hit and do a percentage of damage to anything stronger on every hit, using a officer skills that greatly reduce your Musou consumption and playing as one of the Samurai Warriors characters who can move and attack normally during their Musou while still remainging invincible as long as there's enemies to kill and the rarest is using one of the 2 characters that block attacks while attacking and giving them equipment that allows them to block attacks from any direction and recover life when blocking.

** From the third game, while there's tons of broken characters, one character is agreed upon to be the single best character in the whole game. Xiahou Ba. His Special Move increased his attack and movement speed, and with optimal set ups translates into a LightningBruiser with insane offensive power.

** The first two games forced your co-op partner to use the same as you. Thankfully changed in ''Z'' (albeit [[NoExportForYou not released internationally]]) and ''3''.

** From the third game, while theres tons of broken characters, one character is agreed upon to be the single best character in the whole game. Xiahou Ba. His Special Move increased his attack and movement speed, and with optimal set ups translates into a LightningBruiser with insane offensive power.

* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny - The long awaited rivalry between Lu Bu and Honda Tadakatsu. Toss in [[TheIlliad Achilles]] for good measure.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny - Quite a few, surprisingly. Possible candidate.
-->'''[[CoolOldGuy Huang Zhong]]''': "I was being kidnapped by evil snake gods and forced to fight battles [[GrumpyOldMan before you were even out of the cradle!]]"

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Hayabusa's debut in Anegawa. Kiyomori is just reciting the spell to mind control people, and suddenly there comes Hayabusa, just standing up with BadassArmFold behind him. Kiyomori intercepts, Hayabusa uses [[CutscenePowerToTheMax wall run]] to dodge Kiyomori, ending with a clean leaping slice. "Mission Accomplished". All to the tune of his {{Leitmotif}}, the remix of the Stage 4-2 NES NinjaGaiden theme.

* RuinedFOREVER - No English VA for [=WO3=]!? This series is dead!!

* GameBreaker : Tons of it. The weapon system in general is this. Amongst the character, the most stand out example are Kunoichi in first two games thanks to her fast offense and Invincibility loop, Cao Ren and Huang Zhong in the second game, Sun Jian in both games, and most DynastyWarriors cast in the first game. [[PurposefullyOverpowered Orochi]] himself counts, as long as [[BoringButPractical you only used his first triangle attack.]]

** Ramped up again in the new ''Musou Orochi 2''. Take all those, add [[WarriorsLegendsOfTroy the bonafide Greek Badass Achilles]], and ''the'' {{Badass}} VideoGame {{Ninja}} [[NinjaGaiden Ryu Hayabusa]] and you're in for an ultimate showdown.

* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny - The long awaited rivalry between Lu Bu and Honda Tadakatsu.

** Inverted for Orochi's story on WO2, where, instead, it's DarkerandEdgier, most notably on the final battle against Wei.

* {{Woolseyism}} - The "Enemy Defeated" lines get more variety for the DynastyWarriors character to follow their SamuraiWarriors counterpart.

* CharacterDerailment - [[SamuraiWarriors Maeda Keiji and Date Masamune]], who got reduced into servants of Orochi, though the extent of said derailment is [[YourMileageMayVary contested]], to say the least.
** Date's is probably a TakeThat to SengokuBasara, which is a [[DuelingGames major rival of Samurai Warriors]], the poster boy of that series is Capcom's version of Date (appropriately, his [[TheRival rival]], Yukimura, is the posterboy for SamuraiWarriors.) Same deal with Keiji, who was also one of the poster boys in Basara 2.
*** This quite possibly went back to how actually Capcom might've started it. ''SengokuBasara 2'' (released before the first WarriorsOrochi) introduced Naoe Kanetsugu, one of the more important heroes of Koei's series (Yukimura's ally too), as... a JokeCharacter (a la [[StreetFighter Dan Hibiki]]). Koei doesn't take it well and responded with this. And even this might root back on how Capcom didn't take one scene in ''Kessen 3'' well (about Nobunaga slaying Akechi Hidemitsu / [[{{Onimusha}} Samanosuke]])

** Date's is probably a TakeThat to SengokuBasara, which is a [[DuelingGames major rival of Samurai Warriors]], the poster boy of that series is Capcom's version of Date (Appropriately, his [[TheRival rival]], Yukimura is the posterboy for SamuraiWarriors.) Same thing to Maeda, who was also one of the poster boys in Basara 2.

** Also, a number of the Dream Stages play out like this...the Three Kingdoms leaders vs. the Unifiers of Japan...the legends of the Heike vs. the Daimyo of the Sengoku, the gods vs. the best of the mortals...Honda Tadakatsu, Lu Bu, Keiji Maeda vs. Orochi...etc. etc.
* WhatIf - this is the basis for many of the Dream Stages, set scenarios that allow for cool, strange, and outright peculiar combinations, and also give some depth to some of the characters.

*** This quite possibly went back to how actually Capcom might've started it. ''SengokuBasara 2'' (released before the first WarriorsOrochi) introduced Naoe Kanetsugu, one of the more important heroes of Koei's series (Yukimura's ally too), as... a JokeCharacter (a la [[StreetFighter Dan Hibiki]]). Koei doesn't take it well and responded with this.