Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition Nintendo Switch Review

Complete? Yes! Definitive? Absolutely Not!

Alex Rowe
6 min readFeb 21, 2020

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Screenshot taken by Alex Rowe

Since the Nintendo Switch’s launch in 2017, Koei Tecmo has been loading it up with games from their long-running Warriors/Musou action brawler franchise. Fire Emblem Warriors was a great launch game, though light on raw content. Hyrule Warriors got a brand new edition that’s one of the best recent examples of the series. Warriors Orochi 4 was shrunk down from the bigger consoles with only minimal changes. The One Piece Pirate Warriors and Attack on Titan games made their way over. And there’s also a Persona-based brawler coming sometime in the near future.

In Japan specifically, Koei’s been even more prolific with the releases, porting a huge selection of games from the franchise back catalog to the Switch. Dragon Quest Heroes 1 and 2, Dynasty Warriors 8, Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires, Warriors Orochi 3, Samurai Warriors 4, and Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada all got ports to the machine, often with new features included or all the DLC bundled in.

Here’s Cao Cao, clearly frustrated that Koei didn’t use his PS4 graphical assets on Switch. Screenshot taken by Alex Rowe.

Out of these many additional ports, only Dynasty Warriors 8 has made its way to…

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Alex Rowe

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