Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a sprawling strategy series that has changed immensely over the four decades of entries Koei, now Koei Tecmo, has released since 1985. For its vast panoply of characters and broad gameplay where you focus on a single person as your own avatar, 2001's Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 is particularly fondly remembered not just in the series stronghold of East Asia but in the West because it got a proper release on PlayStation.
The game's AI is also taking a shellacking for being passive. That's nothing new for strategy gamers, who usually put up with lackluster AI as a genre staple, except when it's bad at its own game in a revised format players are already calling dumbed down. Players feel like they traded the nuanced complexity of the original for… nada, really, and a passive AI is no good in a game people enjoy roleplaying in as the sandbox throws surprises at them.
This kind of controversy is nothing new for the series, and there are surely die-hard fans of any one of its game styles from over the past. Just go look at reviews for the last couple entries for a great example: 2016's RT3K 13 is much-liked, but 2020's RT3K 14 got panned pretty hard by reviewers——leading most comparisons of the RT3K 8 remake to compare it to… 13, the last"good" entry, rather than the most recent one.
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