{"id":6151,"date":"2022-02-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/mapping-the-musou-empire\/"},"modified":"2022-02-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T08:00:00","slug":"mapping-the-musou-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/mapping-the-musou-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the musou empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> In the 30 years since Akihiro Suzuki started at Koei, he&#8217;s spent 20 of them overseeing Dynasty Warriors &#8211; progenitor of the musou genre, one of gaming&#8217;s longest-running series, and one whose every entry bar the fifth Suzuki has been involved in. It&#8217;s a success that the team could never really have anticipated &#8211; how could they, given how the series had its start in a different genre entirely. <\/p>\n<p>Released on the original PlayStation back in 1997, the first Dynasty Warriors was a Soul Calibur-like one-on-one fighting game and was met with positive reviews &#8211; so much so that Omega Force, the division within Koei Tecmo that Suzuki was a part of, stuck with the genre with its next project Destrega. &#8220;Within the team we all thought it was really good, but it didn&#8217;t really sell well,&#8221; says Suzuki.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-06-mapping-the-musou-empire\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 30 years since Akihiro Suzuki started at Koei, he&#8217;s spent 20 of them overseeing Dynasty Warriors &#8211; progenitor of the musou genre, one of gaming&#8217;s longest-running series, and one whose every entry bar the fifth Suzuki has been involved in. 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