Publisher: Koei
Developer: Koei
Release Date: 2/1/2001
Date Played: 5/17/2018
Region: Japan
Time Played: 20 minutes
What’d you think?: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms games are probably as deep as you can get for console strategy games of this era. The fairest comparisons would seem to be the grand strategy games from Paradox, like Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, and Crusader Kings. I’m not entirely sure this is accurate, as I got stuck playing this one in Japanese; having no idea what I was doing. My internet went out after about a half-hour, at which point I was already just trying to expend all my resources (though for all I know I could have been accumulating more) and skip turns just to get to a game over screen. I’m leaving the English version of this game on my list so I can revisit it fairly.
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0_OwGBltI
