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''Samurai Warriors'' is a spinoff of Koei's ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' [[Hack and Slash]], porting the gameplay elements to a new setting: the [[Jidai Geki|Sengoku period of Japanese history]]. The playable scenarios span fifty years of Japanese history, and playable characters include [[Oda Nobunaga]], [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], [[Sanada Yukimura]], [[Ishida Mitsunari|Mitsunari Ishida]], [[Miyamoto Musashi]], [[Hattori Hanzo]], Fuma[[wikipedia:Fūma Kotarō|Kotaro Fuma]], and many more. It should be worth noting that each version loosely sticks to a certain time frame and focuses on specific moments: case in point, the first game is all over Nobunaga while the second game's primary focus are the events leading to Sekigahara, and the third appears to try to cover just about everything in-between.
 
Some of the playable battles:
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* [[Keystone Army]]: Scripted twists (such as body doubles and dramatic entrances) aside, as soon as the commander of the opposing force retreats clutching his side/keels over dramatically, the rest of his army beats it regardless of numbers.
** Of course, with how many of them you were likely cutting down before defeating the commander, it's amazing they wait that long to get out of your sight.
* [[Kori Kombat]]: Ieyasu Tokugawa is associated with tanuki and his rival, Mitsunari Ishida, is related to kitsune.
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: If you're not the one Leeroy-ing into the crowd, expect one or more of the AI-controlled officers to charge recklessly and then necessitate you bailing them out. There are even a few stages that ''penalize'' you for getting ahead of yourself.
** And a very unusual case of the game forcing you into one: at the end of Yukimura's story mode, he decides the final battle a lost cause, the game invalidates the defeat conditions and declares everyone but you expendable, a path straight to the enemy camp (but swimming in enemy soldiers) opens up, and in SW3 your items are disabled. Why push you down the road of a totally reckless charge? Because historically, ''he actually did that''.
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* [[Auto-Scrolling Level|Rail Shooter]] [[Doesn't Like Guns|With A]] [[Katanas Are Just Better|Katana]]: Samurai Warriors Katana for the Wii. [[Better Than It Sounds|We Are Not Making This Up]].
* [[Redshirt Army]]: Pretty much who you fight save for the occasional officers, most of which end up as merely [[Elite Mooks]] at best.
* [[Sarashi]]: SW3/SW4 provides this in the form of the female Create a Warrior model who can have half a kimono top and a sarashi.
* [[Serrated Blade of Pain]]: Ginchiyo Tachibana. All her weapons are barbed katana with a lightning motif.
* [[Stock Ninja Weaponry]]: [[Hattori Hanzo]] wields a Kusarigama in battle. Other ninjas include Kunoichi and Nene (daggers) and Kotaro Fuuma (clawed gauntlets).
* [[Sword And Gun]]: Common to have characters, Masumune Date especially, wielding both.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Tadakatsu, following up [[Dynasty Warriors|Lu Bu]]'s tradition.
** Naomasa Ii and Noboyuki/Yukimura Sanada get their own specific music for their moments of glory in SW4.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: Some requests in Survival Mode contain stealth missions. Also, Sugoroku.
** Magoichi occasionally has sniping missions.
** Cannoneering sub-missions in the third game.
* [[Variable Mix]] - The music gets really quiet when there aren't a lot of enemies around.
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: This fluctuates with each game, but it keeps certain points very much intact - namely the deaths of Nobunaga, Mitsuhide, and Hideyoshi are always kept at when they're supposed to be, unless you're playing as them.
* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]: Character creation is a feature of most games, especially SW4, which has a very robust character creator.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]] - Again, those feathers Nobunaga (pitch black) and Mitsuhide (pure white) keep shedding all over the place.
* [[What If]]: Some routes in some games are based entirely on hypotheticals and alternate viewpoints on historical events.
* [[World of Badass|World Of]] [[World of Ham|Badass Ham]]: [[Dynasty Warriors|Par for the course]] for a Koei game.
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: There are hundreds of generic NPC officers with nothing but names to differentiate them.
 
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