Dynasty Warriors: Origins will be hitting Nintendo Switch 2 in just a few days, but it originally released last year on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series platforms and has managed to sell pretty well. Developer Omega Force initially stated plans to make a sequel to Origins, but if a recent interview with producer Tomohiko Sho is anything to go by, we might actually be in store for a trilogy of games.
Speaking with Famitsu for the upcoming DLC pack, Visions of Four Heroes, both Sho and DLC director Takaaki Ogata were asked some questions about how the DLC started, what they wished to expand from the main game, and about optimizations made for the Switch 2 port. More pertinent to this article, though, is what will come next if this DLC should prove successful.
When asked about which historical battles Omega Force wants to adapt next, Sho responded, “The topic is going to be the same as the interview back then during [base DWO] release, but we originally depicted up until the Battle of Chi Bi in this game, and if we were to make a sequel, I thought of making a duology where we would depict up until the Battle of Wuzhang Plains. But as we ended the development, the game depicted up until the Battle of Chi Bi with much more density than we guessed… That’s why in the middle of the development, I ended up thinking that we would have to make it into a trilogy.”
As stated in our review, Origins only covers roughly the first half of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” The intention was always to gradually ease people into the complex lore that the novel has, instead of throwing everything at them at once. Being that Origins is an alternate reality version of events, it seems Omega Force is having fun embellishing details from the story. There’s still quite a bit left before the foundation of the Jin Dynasty in terms of plot progression, so I could see a trilogy being a reality.
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Written by Peter Glagowski
Peter has been a freelance gaming and film critic for over seven years. His passion for Nintendo is only matched by the size of his collection.
