u/Mantis42

I'm just a casual fan of these games, only having played a few titles over the years, so don't crucify me for this opinion. I was in the mood for some 3 Kingdoms action and I know the PS2 titles are fan favorites + this game is getting a remake so I thought I'd try it out. On one hand, it is pretty addicting like these games tend to be, and I can see why people like the difficulty of it. The peons actually fight, are meaningful to the battle, and controlling their spawn points (the gates) helps shape the control of battle. The power fantasy is more in line of a badass wuxia warrior on a battlefield (like the novel...) as opposed to a superhero of something like a more recent title, where you start to wonder why they even need the peons. That said, there are several parts that make the game difficult in a way that is more frustrating than satisfying, and they all work in concert with one another:

- Every little thing stunlocks you. If a peon so much as breathes in your direction your character gets stunlocked. Then they can juggle you or even hit you with their own Musous (peons have that in this entry). Which wouldn't be so bad if you could avoid it but...

- The camera sucks and it's easy to be hit by people off screen because of it. You have no control over the camera besides centering it behind you with the block button. You'll want to be using the block a lot, especially with officers, or you'll quickly be stunlocked and combo'd into oblivion. To block you need to be perfectly still and facing the right direction, which again is reasonable, except the 'facing the correct direction' part can be a little finicky with the bad camera. Also, blocking doesn't protect you from...

- The archers. Fuck these guys. They do a decent chunk of damage, can hit you from beyond the render distance and break your block, stunlocking you and letting you get combo'd by whoever is next to you.

Honestly if the remake just changes these issues, the game would be a blast. Change nothing else but giving me full camera control, making it easier to counter snipe archers, and maybe ease up on the stunlocks, and I'd put dozens of hours into it. Which I'm doing anyways but my blood pressure would be lower, haha.

Emei is considered one of the major schools of Chinese kung fu, but while it's easy to find movies about Shaolin or Wudang, there doesn't seem to be much for them. I know Jin Yong popularized the idea of female warriors from there in his novels.