YMMV / Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Koei)

• Broken Base: The installments which allow players to play as individual officers instead of a force. Some suggest that this playstyle "dumbs" down the game, while others point out that it offers another perspective on the era.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: The first advice given to any beginner to the series is usually "Play Cao Cao in scenarios set after Guan Du". With his vast territories and deep talent pool, one can learn basic to advanced strategies just by managing his fiefdom.
• Dueling Games: XIV with Total War: Three Kingdoms: Mandate of Heaven, as both games are set to be released on the same day in Jan 2020.
• Funny Moments: XI's tutorial. Specifically, its depiction of Liu Bei, and the fact that the characters break the fourth wall at times.
• Tear Jerker: Some events depicted in XIII are this.
  • The event where Lady Bian discusses why she felt that none of her 3 remaining sons at the time should succeed their father Cao Cao takes on a tragic note when one realises that she would eventually outlive 2 of them (Pi and Zhang) and even Zhi outlived her by a mere 2 years.
  • The video depicting Liu Bei's death. Unlike the controversial version found in historical records and the novel (where Liu asks Zhuge Liang to take over as ruler of Shu), Liu Bei merely tells Zhuge Liang to "lead Shu's officers" if Liu Shan is not a worthy ruler; this avoids the controversy that no Chinese leader in that era will willingly ask a non-relative to take over an empire from his descendants. The final moments of the video show him reaching for the air, with images of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei appearing, signifying them awaiting their brother to join them. It hammers home the fact that at his deathbed, Liu was truly a broken man.

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