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Warriors All-Stars (無双☆スターズ, Musou ☆ Stars) is a crossover Warriors game that features several IPs owned by Koei and its subsidiaries and is one of the projects that celebrates Omega Force's twentieth anniversary. It was first revealed to the public onstage during the 2016 PlayStation Press Conference in Japan.

Tomohiko Aoki directed and Masaki Furusawa produced a new Warriors Orochi game, aiming to evolve the brand by presenting a hero battle featuring all protagonists. The game's playable roster includes fan favorites or recent IPs, with a festival theme and joint struggle action. Nobunyaga and William are considered representatives, but no characters from Shubusawa's IPs are included. The Treasure Box edition includes a visual art book, original soundtrack, scroll wall posters, and postcard calendar.

Plot[]

In an alternate world, a miraculous spring sustains the world. The King's death causes turmoil. The Queen summons heroes, but their attempts scatter them, leading to a warring faction.

Gameplay[]

The player chooses a party leader and up to four other characters as support. They can change leaders and party members before battle, but only during battle. Each character has a "Hero Skill" with cooldown times. The game uses a Bravery system, a personal morale level for each character, with an advantage when facing enemies with lower levels and disadvantage when facing higher levels. Each character has a fluctuating Bravery level, which can be boosted by defeating enemies and completing sub-missions up to a maximum level of 10.

High Bravery allows characters to use their "Awakened Skill" and start the "Hero Chain," summoning support members to attack simultaneously. This can help with harder maps, but not mandatory. Characters can also perform a "Combined Skill," activating Hero Skills between two characters, unlocking unique abilities.

"Musou Rush" (R3) is a time-limited state which involves every party member in a festive Musou. After the leader starts the sequence, a timer ticks down at the top of the screen. The player can freely control the party leader, while support characters pop up on the screen and provide assistance, such as boosting the leader's strength, increasing the time on the Fever Timer, or assisting in attacking enemies. The player has to defeat a certain number of foes to summon the rest of their party to cheer them on before the timer runs out. Longer Musou Rushes can make the leader completely invincible to damage and knockback.

Musou Rush sequences can end with all party members performing the finisher. Character quotes change depending on their Regard levels with one another. The higher their Regard level, the stronger their Musou Rush.

Stages contain bases with durability gauges in a grid-styled map format akin to other Warriors games (mainly those with IP's not directly owned by Koei), and are divided into five types:

  1. Standard - if captured, this base will drop orbs. Collect these orbs to remove the cooldown for Hero Skills.
  2. Restorative - stores healing items.
  3. Treasure - grants additional bonus rewards after the player wins the battle.
  4. Attack - shoots arrows at the opposition.
  5. Defense - boosts the durability of nearby bases and base soldiers.

Regard levels are unique to each character and can be increased by forming a battle party. These levels can unlock "Friendship Skills" that can be used on "Hero Cards" to alter character attributes. These cards can be collected by defeating generals or completing sub-missions. Friendship Skills can offer different benefits and mastery levels vary between characters. The Sanctuary serves as the player's main base, allowing them to enjoy out-of-battle character interactions and access resources like a Refinery and a Practice Arena.

Special character conversations at the Sanctuary often involve groups of characters and have a limited time to initiate before they expire. They include multi-choice answers for the player to select. Like the Neoromance series, it's advised to select a favorable answer to further boost character Regard levels. Friendship conversations are reliant on the interacting characters' gender, as same sex conversations will not be the same as the different sex ones.

Players can reach Confidant Regard levels and complete special conversations for a unique hot springs bathing scene, with mixed gender options. The in-game Gallery and Encyclopedia provide earned content and terminology.

Other gameplay traits include:

  • To contrast the Warriors Orochi series, all characters have up to C6 for their movesets. Certain characters will have more appending charge attacks to better allude to their original IP.
  • Certain characters can afflict a new status ailment on their opponents called "Heart Break" which lowers a character's fighting capabilities. Cards can grant "Love" status to defend against it.
  • Characters borrow the sprinting mechanic used from other non-Koei Tecmo-IP-Warriors titles that initially do not use mounts, due to the lack of horses in the game. Charge Dash Attacks are added that allow characters to continue their sprint, allowing for hit-and-run tactics. Normal dash attacks will stop their sprint.
  • Characters can perform dodge-rolls to avoid enemy attacks and cancel attack animations. Dodge-rolls can be performed by pressing the jump button while guarding or by pressing the jump button during an attack. Samurai Warriors figures perform Spirit Charges with this command instead.
  • Locking-on to single major enemy targets is now possible, and also accommodates the rolling mechanic.
  • Stages, music, materials, and enemies will be based on varying IPs from Koei, Tecmo or Gust, with music being specifically remixed. Original NPCs and stages will be included.
  • Music selection for battles is present for certain stages.
  • Downloadable content is only costumes so far. Furusawa has stated consideration for a future multiplayer-themed update. He remarked that different costumes may be decided based on players' reactions.

Modes[]

Story Mode[]

Characters are assigned to one of three factions: Tamaki, Setsuna, or Shiki. The player can choose their action through the world map screen, and battles, items, and information events are marked. They can collect materials and items through side missions or continue the story at their leisure. Hero Battles unlock additional characters, while Key Battles close story branches. Conditions may fail if a character is not party leader, and clearing one battle may cause another to disappear.

Repeated playthoughs are encouraged, since it is impossible to see every possible ending in a single playthrough. Fifteen different endings can be unlocked in the vanilla game.

Encyclopedia[]

Self-explanatory. Explains terminology from various continuities. More terms are unlocked from character events.

Gallery[]

Collects earned movies, music, character models and dialogue, character events, wallpapers and battle results.

Options[]

Difficulty and volume adjustments.

Characters[]

Characters with * are starting characters.

Tamaki's Force[]

Shiki's Force[]

Setsuna's Force[]

Trophies[]

Icon Name Unlock Method Type
MS Trophy 1 Platinum ☆ Star Obtain all other trophies. Platinum
MS Trophy 2 Warriors All-Stars is my life Clear all hero stories and dramatic battles. Gold
MS Trophy 3 Thankful for the Destined Meeting Maximize bonds of every character. Gold
MS Trophy 4 Around the World for 10 Seconds Clear Story Mode in less than 3 hours. Gold
MS Trophy 5 Heart-Pounding Watching Watch every character's bath event scene. Gold
MS Trophy 6 Action Star Unlock all character actions. Gold
MS Trophy 7 Purified Goddess Purify Yomi and restore the world back to normal. Gold
MS Trophy 8 Godspeed Clear a battle within 2 minutes. Silver
MS Trophy 9 I Kill to Live On Clear a battle without taking damage. Silver
MS Trophy 10 Relying on Friends Defeat 8 officers in a single battle using a hero skill. Bronze
MS Trophy 11 Cat God Collect 100,000 more currency. Bronze
MS Trophy 12 Cat Lord Lunch Eat more than 10 meat buns in a single battle. Bronze
MS Trophy 13 Can You Hear the Sound of Materials!? Collect materials for the first time. Bronze
MS Trophy 14 They Fall One After Another Unlock a level 3 conversation with a character in the Holy Castle. Bronze
MS Trophy 15 Barrel! Examine a barrel. Bronze
MS Trophy 16 This Fight... Isn't Over! Maximize a character's level. Bronze
MS Trophy 17 Please Help Me! Rescue an ally 5 times in a single battle. Bronze
MS Trophy 18 Raging for Fierce Bonds Maximize a character's affection rating. Bronze
MS Trophy 19 Continental Travel Unlock all parts of the world map. Bronze
MS Trophy 20 Guardians and Bonds Alike Use a combined skill. Bronze
MS Trophy 21 Final Flourish Clear a battle by damaging the enemy commander with a finishing move. Bronze
MS Trophy 22 None Can Stand Beside the Demon God Obtain the title of greatest warrior. Bronze
MS Trophy 23 The New Ruler Tamaki Help Tamaki become the new ruler. Bronze
MS Trophy 24 The New Ruler Setsuna Help Setsuna become the new ruler. Bronze
MS Trophy 25 The New Ruler Shiki Help Shiki become the new ruler. Bronze
MS Trophy 26 Heroes Who Must Save the World Seal Yomi and save the world. Bronze
MS Trophy 27 To Protect No Matter What Protect Tamaki while joining another faction. Bronze
MS Trophy 28 Forgotten Memories Fail to recover lost memories in the alternate world. Bronze
MS Trophy 29 Return, and... Be forcefully returned. Bronze
MS Trophy 30 First Step Win a battle for the first time. Bronze
MS Trophy 31 Bequeathed Rule Yield the throne to another candidate. Bronze
MS Trophy 32 Shining Otherworldly Idol Become the alternate world's top idol. Bronze
MS Trophy 33 Lovely Fluttering Butterfly Choose to live in the alternate world. Bronze
MS Trophy 34 True Hero Compete to save the alternate world. Bronze
MS Trophy 35 Twice Even if Not Once Capture the villains. Bronze
MS Trophy 36 Eternal Parting Demonstrate the might of a hero. Bronze
MS Trophy 37 Fever Guard Perform a Musou Fever 3 times in a single battle. Bronze
MS Trophy 38 Landroll Guard Earn 5,000 or more experience points in a single battle. Bronze


Related Media[]

Famitsu held a poll for fans to make character requests until October 16, 2016. Up to five characters will be considered for inclusion; they will appear as downloadable characters with their own stories and endings. The top ten results of the poll were revealed in the April 13, 2017 issue. They are:

  1. Diaochan (Dynasty Warriors)
  2. Nozomi Kasuga (Harukanaru Toki no Naka de)
  3. Nobunaga Oda (Geten no Hana)
  4. Ionasal kkll Preciel (Ar Nosurge)
  5. Earthes (Ar Nosurge)
  6. Leiji Myoga (Kiniro no Corda)
  7. Logix Fiscario (Atelier)
  8. Hotaru (Geten no Hana)
  9. Oscar (Angelique)
  10. Totooria Helmold (Atelier)

Furusawa was surprised by the first two, especially the second. He stated that he may consider more Neoromance protagonists in the sequel.

PlayStation Japan wants to know players' strongest dream team from the thirty default playable characters so they can post select comments on their blog. Interested participants had until March 20, 2017 to share their thoughts through blog comments or over Twitter. The most popular results were posted along with select company executives' responses on the game's public sales date.

Four fans who retweeted their favorite character(s) during the game's Twitter campaigns won autographed cards from the voice actors. The most popular character scene voted by fans for the first and second campaigns are fully available for early online viewing, while second and fifth place scenes for the first and second campaigns are compiled into one video.

Furusawa was a guest for the Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 6 Gentou Rondo pre-release live stream; he promoted Warriors All-Stars's hot springs fanservice using a placard that features the male cast. January 26, 2017 was the date of the first live stream that had Kazutoshi Sekiguchi as a special guest. The second live demonstration happened February 24, 2017 with Nobunyaga. The third live stream occurred on March 10, 2017 with Osamu Mieda present. March 28, 2017 was the date of the fourth live stream with Masumi Asano (Ouka), Mai Aizawa (Marie Rose), and Yuuka Aisaka (Sophie) as special guests. Five viewers can gather keywords at the end of each live stream to receive voice actor autographs or merchandise if they follow instructions at the end of the fourth live stream; the deadline for entries is April 2, 2017.

A press conference to celebrate the game's completion was held March 23, 2017. Ai Nonaka (Honoka), Yuka Iguchi (Plachta), Tomoyo Kurosawa (Christophorus), Kanae Ito (Wang Yuanji), and Yusuke Kobayashi (Opoona) shared their commentary about the game on stage.

Game★Maniax featured a pre-recorded visit to Koei's main company building and an interview with Furusawa about this game for their March 4 broadcast. Three people can potentially win free PS4 copies of the game by entering the show's online giveaway; deadline for entries was March 17, 2017. Famitsu featured gameplay footage from the game during their March 22, 2017 Tokaigi TV segment.

Japanese let's player duo Ii Otanatati will be hosting a company sponsored let's play of this game on their Nico Nico Douga channel. The first video was posted on March 24, 2017.

Omega Force's twentieth anniversary website has the original characters for this game star for March in their 2017 online calendar.

Thirty-four Tokyo and Akihabara cafes, restaurants and other outlets hosted a food campaign for this game March 10~31, 2017. Place mats of the playable cast were offered at each location. The majority of the participating stores were assigned to a single playable character. Customers with 500 yen or more orders from a store's menu obtained a postcard of that store's character. Customers who collected all of the Akihabara postcards were given the chance to receive a postcard exclusive to this campaign.

Baseball team Yokohama DeNA Baystars had two collaborations with this game. The first included three downloadable costumes that were made free from the PlayStation Store. The second included original collaboration merchandise with illustrations by Katsuki Onda that had the baseball players dressed as characters from the playable cast. Additional merchandise for this collaboration was sold at YOKOHAMA GIRLS☆FESTIVAL 2017.

Furusawa was a guest on the Taiwanese program Baha Game Crazy for their March 16, 2017 segment. His appearance came with another announcement for a cosplay contest hosted by Koei-Tecmo Taiwan. Cosplayers have until March 29 to share their photos on the official company Facebook. Taiwanese cosplayer DenKa, who is also the special guest for Koei-Tecmo Taiwan's pre-release press conference, will act as a special judge for entries. The top contestant may win a PS4 copy of Warriors All-Stars.

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