Various events in battle can also create a nemesis for your clan, which can impact you later on and events during the fights, such as earthquakes and severe weather will wreak havoc on your crops and your castle’s structure. These relationships play a huge part, and allowing two characters to deepen a bond can add additional benefits to your clan. The loyalty of your clan will also be tested, and making sure you respect the relationships between certain characters within your castle can reap rewards for you on and off the battlefield. Just like Nobunaga’s Ambition, you can’t play the game without spending a considerable amount of time preparing for battle. I stupidly went into war with a rival clan when most of my troop’s strength was low, resulting in a quick defeat and bruised ego. My clan, the Satomi Clan suffered a heavy defeat early on in the game and it took me around two in-game years to be battle ready. It’s set within the four seasons of the year. You’ll also be punished for making decisions that affect the lives of your people, meaning your fame will drop and the amount of decisions you can make on each turn will decrease. Making military decisions can help you greatly on the battlefield whether that’s adjusting certain formations or recovering your troop’s strength, each directive has major implications. For example, raising the rice yield will mean nobody starves and the morale of your people won’t fall. From a selection of characters in your castle, you can select magistrates who will suggest directives to help you out in a whole manner of things. From there, you can make military and political decisions that affect everY officer you employ within your castle. Every decision you make is done at your Castle – which acts as a hub of sorts. Outside of the actual battlefield is where Empires shines.

At the beginning, you get to choose from a wide selection of clans and once you’re happy with your clan, the game will really start to captivate you. Depending on the time period, you’ll have different clans to play as and face and the events in history have an impact on your game, but the general gameplay remains the same regardless of the scenario you choose to play through.

In Conquest mode, you can play through a selection of scenarios from different time periods in Japanese history. The combat and customisation of these games may have been finely tuned to an impressive pinnacle, but if you’re never given anything substantially different from the last, why bother playing? Thankfully, Empires offers a great new way to enjoy the hack and slash genre by fusing it with the strategy and tactical gameplay of Koei Tecmo’s other successful title, Nobunaga’s Ambition. For years now, Musou games have become less and less intuitive, providing a dwindling impact with every new release. Samurai Warriors 4 Empires is what Omega Force should have released a long time ago.

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