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Crowd Brawlers (or Games like the Dynasty Warriors series)

(WIP) Being a lone entity defeating large amounts of enemies single-handedly in melee combat isn't new to the 3D/PS2 era, games like Gauntlet and Growl come to mind. However, Dynasty Warriors not only made the genre semi-popular, but were somehow able to succesfully re-release the same story and barely different game mechanics or almost literally "different coats of paint". Even as somebody who enjoys some of these games, I recognized that most of them have a certain lack of quality or evolution to the genre. Unfortunately, we may never see another developer/publisher get a chance to make a proper "spirtual successor"/evolution to this genre - I remember reading somewhere that Koei Tecmo somehow owns the "right" over large crowd brawlers - which may be why you don't see more games like Nintey Nine Nights, Sengoku Basara, and Drakengard. Kingdom Under Fire 2 is still in development as of 2017, so I don't know if that is true

A VAST majority of this list will be of Koei Tecmo published games - hopefully there are others that I've either forgot about or that you can point me to.

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Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc came out mind when I looked through this list. It's a budget PC game that mixes RTS with on foot action similar to Kindom Under Fire. Pretty sure the reason I bought it was because it looked similar to Dynasty Warriors.

I thought of a few other games but they kinda blur the lines a bit. Similar to Drakengard 3 which doesn't quite fit the mold but it still has a few elements taken from DW. Chaos Legion has a lot of monsters on screen that must be defeated. Although you might consider that a character action game like Spartan Total War. Yet they both have a similar X/Y button combo system and a ton of enemies that must be fought in a 1 vs 100 kinda way. Might not be worth adding to the list but I figured it couldn't hurt to bring them up.

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Wars and Warriors is really obscure - I've never heard of it and I've heard of alot of games. I'll add it.
Chaos Legion crossed my mind, but still consider it a character action game vs a crowd brawler. I feel if I add that game, I should add all similar games (God of War, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, etc)
Spartan Total War seems fitting. I could be wrong, but I think it was remade and put on to mobile/PC (or a similar looking game at least)

Also need to add Senran Kagura eventually