100man-nin no Sangokushi (100万人の三國志, Hyakuman-nin no Sangokushi; Literally: "One Million People's Romance of the Three Kingdoms") is a social game adaptation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. The PC browser version of this game adds the Special subtitle.
Kazuhiro Fujishige is the producer and Shu Matsumoto is the director for Special.
The mobile version won best RPG in GREE's Platform Awards 2010, 2014 and 2015. It reached one million subscribed users in 2011 and was GREE's flagship title in China. At least 1.5 million users are registered with the Japanese mobile servers.
For the four anniversary of the mobile version, players can log-in to receive goods and vote for their favorite character using the first title's graphics. The two year anniversary of Special celebrated with a collaboration with Sangokushi Royale.
Services for the Mobage version ended on January 29, 2018. Special will continue its operations.
Gameplay[]
The game is played in real-time, with players creating their own lord to travel in central China to experience key events from the Three Kingdoms era. The game's starting point is Henan, with the Yellow Turban Rebellion as its focal event. Players expend three stats: Move, Attack, and Defense, each with meters that drain when used. Leveling up restores all meters, and players must increase one point into their chosen stat.
Each region the player visits has quests and episodes for the player to complete. Quests are meager tasks such as recruiting troops or protecting military supplies. Finishing these deeds is one of the mandatory requirements needed for moving onto another prefecture and/or region. Quests are also needed to unlock episodes, which highlight events found within the novel's narrative. Episodes can be completed at the player's leisure; rewards for clearing these missions includes items, characters, and bonus experience. Both quests and episodes are cleared by repeatedly sending troops until the mission's progress bar reaches 100% completion. Ordering troops drains the avatar's Move meter by whatever toll is indicated within the mission description.
The game involves a turn-based duel where players face their opponent, with each fighter attacking until one remains standing. Players can choose friends to cheer for them, increasing their character's attributes. As of August 6, 2013, players over level 100 can designate a lower leveled friend as their oath sibling. Oath siblings can be dissolved at any time without penalties. Duels can be randomly triggered during quests, with looser character restrictions and random number generators providing a freer experience. Players can purchase items from the shop, or earn benefits by completing time-consuming objectives, such as 100% mission completion, consecutively winning Wars, and specific character recruitments.
Generals[]
The game's visuals are based on the eleventh title of the series, with rare characters featuring portraits from the seventh to twelveth titles. Characters are categorized into Warrior, Strategist, or Commander types, with their level strength based on the player's avatar trait. Fusions can enhance a character's stats, but each character has varying levels, limiting the number of fusions.
During PvP battles, characters exhibit different behaviors. For duels between players, six traits determines each character's usefulness to the player:
- Constitution - increases likelihood of critical hits.
- HP - health for the encounter. Altered by RNG.
- Attack - indicates strength per strike. Altered by RNG.
- Speed - affects evasion and counter rate. Counters negates an opponent's attack. Altered by RNG.
- Defense - determines constitution against opponent. Altered by RNG.
- Special Ability - uses character's technique. These abilities can be learned by using scrolls earned in special events. Rare characters tend to have innate abilities. As of November 23, 2013, these abilities can be leveled if a character and the appropriate scroll are merged together in the strengthening process.
Wars calls for both players to fight with armies consisting of the three character types. Each player can assign characters of the same types into various formations. The Cost for each character restricts players from only playing rares, encouraging experimentation with their earned fighters. Like the strengthening process, formations with specific individuals can boost their attack. When the planning is done, the types on both sides simultaneously clash with one another. The army which claims the most victories between the three formations is the winner.
Castle[]
To celebrate the first year anniversary of the PC browser version, players can now raise their own castle town like the main series. Reserve generals can be used to upgrade the player's castle town and/or build new facilities to upgrade the army's capabilities in battle. Players can expend their avatar's Defense gauge and gold for each building command and must wait for their actions to take effect with real-time timers. New facilities can either be bought with digital currency or earned through timed events.
Castles additionally grant a gold bonus each day the player logs-in. Like the main series, the gold rewarded is reliant on the number of marketplaces built within the player's town area.
Differences between ports[]
- The my GAMECITY version first utilized the same transitions as the mobile version made by GREE. It is now like the Yahoo!Japan version with a redesign by DeNA that uses a new GUI and Flash throughout the game. The map, battle and mission screens are wider and visually revised.
- Sima Hui guides players for the game's tutorial session in the mobile and my GAMECITY versions. In the Yahoo!Japan version, he is replaced by Sun Shangxiang in her wedding dress. She also doubles as a limited edition character for players to add to their collection.
- Generals within the map screen no longer have text bubbles for players to read in the Yahoo!Japan version.
- Animations are prevalent in the Yahoo!Japan than any other version.
- The RNG for duels is replaced with manual sliders in the Yahoo!Japan version. The two sliders represent attack and speed or defense and health. Either stat can be raised at the player's discretion at the cost of lowering the other affected stat (i.e.: raising health lowers a character's defense).
- Characters vary between the GREE, my GAMECITY, and Yahoo!Japan versions due to campaigns and other collaborations between the three ports.
- Factions in the Yahoo!Japan version are now visibly labeled when viewing character stats with the same sorting system and color schemes as the Dynasty Warriors series. Jin figures are distinguished by historical family relations to the Sima clan/years of service for the dynasty.
Related Media[]
Dynasty Warriors 7 versions of select characters appear within the social game. These versions of the characters can currently be earned in later episodes within the GREE versions of the game.
The social game was a part of a four-way collaboration campaign with the DVD release of the Three Kingdoms TV series (known as Sangokushi Three Kingdoms in Japan). Players of the social game could participate in an event to obtain a special item themed to the TV series.
Sangokushi 12 unlocks passwords for the social game as the player finishes scenarios and other quests in the game. These passwords grants items and character for the social game. Players of the social game could also participate in an event to celebrate Sangokushi 12's PC version. The passwords earned in the social game can be used for the PC game. A similar campaign is also in place for the Power Up Kit expansion.
Sangokushi 13 buyers can redeem an exclusive Sangokushi 13 Zhuge Liang and other supplementary scrolls in the social game from any port.
Jun Dohko and Hiromu Arakawa's Sangokushi Spirits includes a serial code for the social game. It unlocks a version of Lu Bu illustrated by Arakawa. An Arakawa illustrated Xiahou Dun could also be earned by players during the comic books' debut. Purchase the first issue of Kodansha's bi-weekly Sangokushi for collaboration items.
The Yahoo! Mobage versions of the game has crossover campaigns with Koei's other browser games on the site sans the Neoromance titles. Playing the four games in sync can reward players with rare items and characters. These are the rewards available for players in this game:
- Hyakuman-nin no Nobunaga no Yabou - chance to obtain Yue Jin and various items
- Nobunyaga no Yabou - chance to obtain Ma Su and various items
- 100man-nin no Winning Post Special - chance to obtain Huang Gai and various items
- Hyakuman-nin no Hokuto Musou - chance to obtain Guan Yu and various items
- AKB48 no Yabou - chance to obtain Wang Yuanji and two summoning tickets
- 100man-nin no Winning Post - chance to obtain Ma Chao and various items
Newcomers who start playing the Yahoo!Mobage version in mid-December 2013 can obtain a Three star Diaochan and a Christmas box.
Players of the my GAMECITY version can obtain exclusive cross title bonuses with the following games on the same server:
- Nobunaga no Yabou Online - Daqiao, three tickets, and one level cap seal
- Shin Sangoku Musou Online - Sun Shangxiang (married portrait), three tickets, and one level cap seal
- Daikoukai Jidai Online - Huang Zhong, three tickets, and one level cap seal
- AKB48 no Yabou - Diaochan and various items
- 100man-nin no Winning Post - Zhuge Liang and various items
- 100man-nin no Hyper! World Soccer - Imyagawa Yoshimoto and one raffle ticket
- Daikoukai Jidai V - Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, and various items
100man-nin no Sangokushi had a collaboration campaign with Dragon Genesis. Registered players can fulfill quests to obtain serial codes for items and character goods in either game. The event lasted until May 21, 2014.
The GREE version is hosting a collaboration event with the GREE and dgame servers of Emperors Saga. It expires June 29, 2015.
This is one of the titles that will be on stage during the Tokyo Game Show 2015 net game presentation.
The game is holding a collaboration campaign with The Knights of Avalon. Players can participate in time-limited quests to acquire exclusive items and characters.
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