The person/persons? posting about Sengoku Basara and the recent remaster of Dynasty Warriors 3 has gotten me thinking about the musou genre again. Personally I think of musou has a sister genre to CAGs so it's got me wondering if there are any musou games (other than Sengoku Basara) that are CAG-like. You know, the ability to do cool combos and be flashy but strapped in that 1v1000 shell.
You know what I’m talking about: games that aren’t really CAGs but still activate the same part of the brain as CAGs do. Games with the same focus on creativity and using the wide variety of tools provided to self express. Games that would likely appeal to the same people that like CAGs.
Now I understand why MCDM did it, their reasoning makes logical sense and I see exactly why they did it. That being said: I feel like kits are a super bland and ultimately quite tertiary part of the experience, even playing a class like tactician where it just feels like you get less class flavor in favor of the mostly underwhelming options of kits.
It's not that I dislike what we got, or that I dislike the game, moreso I feel like kits are a really underdeveloped system and I wish they had gotten more. I really feel like casters could've gotten kits too, and this would've fixed several (such as Nulls and leveled treasures), and if that was the case kits could've been a bit more and had really interesting stuff and your choice of kit could've been a really important part of your character.
Not sponsored, but the Gunslinger by 5T productions is much closer to what I expected: the class comes with a bunch of unique kits that interact with the gunslinger's ammo mechanic, meaning that your choice of kit has huge impact on just how exactly you fight, even if you NEVER make a signature move.
Now I can spend another 6 years working on wind currents and weather patterns so that I can actually start writing