A quick addendum for some of the entries. The only Multi Raid 2 character that made it into WO3 was Cai Wenji (By technicality because she was an add in dw7 first). They COULD Add in the rest of MR2 characters because of the nature of some of these characters (Shi Huangdi, King Mu, Etc.) and the fact that there are WO Characters in both Strikeforce games (either playable or as boss encounters). Li Dian's DW9 VA (Maxwell Chase) held a reddit AMA on the DW Subreddit. Apparently He WAS going to voice both Li Dian and Yue Jin, After Max voiced a few lines until the VA company found out the context between those two and so Yue Jin was given a different VA. Guo Jia's DMC inspired outfit is based on his dw7 outfit, meaning that this costume was from DW7 and not DW8.

A someone who is friends with Doug Stone (the Voice Director for for DW4 and voice of Xu Zhu and Zhang Jiao for 4 through 8), he says the VA strike had nothing to do with it because he wasn’t even informed that his roles were taken. The truth of the matter is that Koei Tecmo is just cheap.

I love it when games gloss over historical facts and sugar coat events because when people find out the real history their reaction is just... lovely.

On the topic of Diaochan/Lu Bu unique interactions, a similar rage mechanic can be seen during the final battle of Jin's historical route in DW8 Xtreme Legends (can't confirm if that happens in the normal version too). Defeating Xingcai before Liu Shan will trigger a unique interaction where Liu Shan panics, urges his servants to rush Xingcai to safety and then enters rage mode. Pretty cool detail for a character that is supposed to act like an aloof fool.

I've been a hardcore DW fan for most of my life + the fandom's always been pretty small, so seeing all these inside jokes laid out on an iceberg chart is incredible 😁 especially 31:08 LMFAOOOOO I remember that Madden gif maker from the Tumblr days I WAS THERE 😂😂😂 Great video!!!

DWO has long shut off last year.

About Zhang Liao voice sudden change, somehow i didn't find it weird. In fact, i think it was spot on. You see, from the first time i saw him in DW5 i always thought "Why this Arabian man in a game about Chinese history?" derived from his moustache and his helm that looks like Arabian wanderer. The voice was unique enough for me to think, "Yeah, he's different from the rest. He's Arabian after all" so i enjoy it. The fact he's still a badass just make me think that this Arabian man can pull his weight off among many Chinese renowned Warrior. Xu Huang also has this "Arabian" look Disclaimer: I know both are Chinese Warrior. Their design just looks like Arabian to me

I didn't know about the Clone recognize themself, I laughed so hard when he said "I am my own opponent?" XD

"a female and unmasked Wei Yan" brother, imma be honest, idk if these words should've been uttered upon the earth lol, most cursed thing i've ever heard about this franchise

Honestly, I never thought that Sima Yi's relationship with Zhang Chunhua ruined the character. I think it adds a more human side to him as well as a bit of catharsis knowing this over the top villainous arrogant genius can get reduced to a henpecked husband.

43:57 Fun fact about the DW1 scene of Xiahou Dun voring his own eye: this is actually based on an actual legend of Xiahou Dun. In Chapter 18 of the Romance of the Three Kingdom novels, Xiahou Dun is ambushed by Lu Bu's general Cao Xing during the Battle of Xu Province. The pain was so agonizing that he immediately tries to pull the arrow out, but accidentally yoinks his entire eyeball from his eye socket as well. In a display of true alpha male energy, he shouts, "This is my father's essence (or sperm depending on how you translate it) and my mother's blood, how can I discard this?! (父精母血，不可棄也！)" and proceeds to swallow his own eye. Then he rides out and kills Cao Xing in the same battle. This story is commonly known as 拔矢啖睛 or 'pulling out the arrow and swallowing the eye', and is definitely one of the wildest RotTK legends out there.

25:07, these conversations also exist in DW Godseekers, including the only interaction that Diaochan and Lu Lingqi ever have in the series (read my comment in reply)

Great video, really enjoyed your commentary and how creative some of these were. DW4 concept art was so cool to see how those characters would have looked with that game’s aesthetic if they had been added playable. Honestly one of my favorite aesthetics in the series

You forgot dynasty warrior 5 empires failed ending where your character die due to old age

This is a Wonderful Video. I learned more then I thought in a Single Night. Good Job WildCat! The Cameo was also a Nice Touch. :)

All and all great video. I also finally get my long awaited wish granted. The Mandi cameo was also a nice touch :P

"Roger Craig Smith, most famously know for Sonic The Hedgehog" Excuse you? You mean for Chris Redfield!

You have a talent to explain icebergs. I would like to see other icebergs, no matter what genre, but really I enjoy learning on some topic, because you explain very well. Subscribed!

One thing about Jin: the first to receive the title king/prince of Jin was Sima Zhao, after his conquest of Shu. So, technically, we have a Jin ruler in the game.

This is the best video for dynasty worries series, great job dude, salute to you

Wen Yang is not a reincarnation of Zhao Yun, the reason why he acts similar to him is becouse he is a big fan of Zhao Yun. In WO4 they have a intereation in the main camp together and Wen Yang is pretty much fanboying at that moment. Asking him to say the line "sally forth" and all that stuff. Also as much as i want it to be true DW strike force 3 was definitely not planned mainly becouse not even DWsf2 was released in English And the special strike force skins in WO3 were made only for WO since thats the time when they were made.

Very well done iceberg coverage, awesome stuff 🔥🔥

Great job on covering everything, I honestly didn't know or barely remembered half of these things. But it was splendid and honestly makes me wanna play some of the old games again 😅

7:30 Bless you for all eternity for this one. When you brought up voice acting and then mentioned DW3 I immediately thought of "Feel the power of my magic" one of my buddies and I still say this to each other and its been like 20 years. Will never forget hearing that for the first time and laughing ny ass off. And whats worse is I remember it being one of the first levels. They just came out swinging with that terrible performance

in 2008 i was trying to get 100% achievements on Dynasty Warriors 6. I saw the 2008 olympics live on TV and for sure they had the victory screen music playing during one of the ceremonies

Ironically the only playable officer who's officially part of the Jin dynasty is the advisor Jia Chong, and he's dynasty warriors 8 Ending for jin strongly implies that he's probably is the one responsible behind sima zhao sudden death a year later after conquest of shu but obviously this is speculative reading on that ending... and also Cai wenji name is pronouced as *"Tsai"* not Cai :) technically the disc swap feature was used eventually in Sengoku basara games starting with 2007's Sengoku basara 2 heroes which served as expansion for original 2 on the ps2, there likely could have been unknown obscure example but that's as earliest as I'm aware off, Fun fact is that supposedly developers at capcom would often omitt or deny dyansty warriors inspirations for DW and would often cite their other IPS instead, it makes you wonder if the lawsuit had anything to do with it When it comes to Xiahouji, I was bit more open until I see the full game but turned out to bit worse than I expected, now ROTK adaptations specially DW in general aren't stranger to omitting certain scenes to make certain side look brighter (Liu bei cannibilism, leaving behind his family, yetting his son, Forcing his adopted son to commit suicide under advice of zhuge liang, Guan yu being menance in Jingzhou, Cao Cao genociding Cities and Fa Zheng open corruption by abusing his position, The last specially was also consider controversial pick for series but was actually handled far better as necessary evil compared to her) but also often it's easy to look past these aspects since the story don't acknowledge them so they technically don't exist in that timeline, but Xiahouji even putting aside justifying being forced to into being a concubine after being napped by shu troops, it just seems laughable bad that the relationship just looks far more akwards than dev intended, more older looking design would definitely soften the blow Also not mentioned on the video but there's actually a decently lengthy Comedic manga adaptation series based of dynasty warriors series that also ran from dynasty warriors 2 up to 5 with volume count varying and having decent number of artist contributing, premise is that it takes popular moment from the games and parodies them, even video game mechanics from the games like the health pick up are acknowledged as punchline for gags, Samurai warriors series also received same treatment briefly

I always wanted a Dynasty Warriors Iceberg. As a DW fan since 5 I am surprised I didn't knew about many facts. Amazing video, I would love you to make an iceberg of other Warriors franchises in the future.

i have a fun fact to share on dynasty warriors 5 - wu zhang plains: if you're playing on shu side you can prevent zhuge liang death by killing jiang wei first. The easy way is to use huang gai friendly fire bomb and make jiang wei health drop to 1, after that you can lure the enemy to hit jiang wei

hell yeah another wildcat banger

Thank you for making this incredible video. The Dynasty Warriors series is big enough that it deserves it's own iceberg!~ 😇🤩

As a massive fan of this series when i got recomended to this video i had the bigest smile on my face! Probably the best deep dive i have seen of this series by far :3

Haven't watched yet, been waiting for this!

This was cool, and I liked that they were all actual references rather than some icebergs that get into conspiracy theories/creepypasta stuff

Nice to see you around. I have watched all your other Warriors videos too. Hope you do more.

Been waiting for this since you made that Reddit post, great work

I'm a big fan of this series, so I'm glad to find someone doing an iceberg on it.

I was NOT expecting that ending xD Great video thou =D

I actually think Xiahou Ji has immense Hypothetical potential and explains a lot as to why Xiahou Ba defection is preventable. Imagine them saving her. It would definitely make Zhang Fei look bad but he kinda already does

This is a great video. Thank you!

on "Jin was supposed to be purple": it has been nearly 20 years since i played it, but I recall "Jin" in Sima Yi's story was either Purple or White in Dynasty Warriors 4. From what I remember, you only got to play those Jin battles with Sima Yi, and basically all units, your forces and enemy, were generics, as no one from that era sans Jiang Wei (who shows up in the earlier ones) had been introduced yet.

Aww man, no mention of the back street boys attack the peon enemies used to make where they all line up and do the same leaping slash attack in unison! Classic PS2 DW feature. Great video, love seeing a good DW video instead of a negative one.

Loved learning about all of this!

The Dynasty Warriors movie was really bad, but what makes it entertaining was all of the easter eggs and shot for shot recreations of different intros and cutscenes throughout the series! My favorite detail was them indirectly mentioning the “KO Count” by saying how the “heavenly weapons” makes it’s wielder more powerful the more enemies they kill lol

You tryin to tell me Tomars voice is a downgrade??

40:40 The color purple was (if I recall correctly) connected with the Imperial Court (the Han officers during the Yellow Turban Rebellion wore purple and Dong Zhuo's faction wore purple because they had control of the Emperor), so Jin almost being purple (and Sima Yi wearing purple) was a small nod to the fact that eventually the SIma family ends up on top.

Awesome video Any chance you do Warriors Orochi iceberg and Samurai Warriors one ?

So, “Renbu” 連舞 can roughly be translated as “chained dance”, hence the “chain” count instead of “combo” in DW6. The “dance” part is a thematic choice as what is called “Musou Attack” in English is translated from “無双乱舞” (musou ranbu), or Musou “wild/boisterous dance.”

Wen Yang is not a reincarnated Zilong, hes just a massive fan that grew up on the tales of Zilong's heroics. A line in RotK the novel even compared his actions during the raid on Sima Shi's camp at Yuejia to Zilong's one man army exploits at the Battle of Changban. 10:40 theres more than one. Zhuge Liang is considered the most intelligent chinese person to have ever lived and is a god of wisdom. Theres even a village in china full of his descendants and they supposedly all have above average IQ. Zhao Yun is one of the most celebrated chinese people ever and is a constant in their dramas and theatre. Cao Cao is famous because of his poetry along with his son Cao Zhi. Diao Chan is in the 5 ancient chinese beauties. The three kingdoms period is the most famous and most adapted period of chinese history, all of the characters are famous pretty much. 31:05 theres a clip from the 2010 three kingdoms tv show called "liu bei would hurt a child" showing this I agree 5 is the best one, 3 probably 2nd best.

Finally someone has done this. I wouldve thought XthemastaX or KCZ would be the first to do it. Now we just need a Samurai Warriors or Sengoku Basara Iceberg

Thanks for the info

Also something to add to the comment of Lubu appearing in Samurai Warriors 1, its not the first game he appeared in he also appeared in the survival modes in Samurai Warriors Chronicles alongside Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate characters Kyubi, Sun Wukong, and Orochi himself.

Aside from oddities like Zhang Fei being... Zhang Ba again and again when talking about Xiahouji, and Cai Wenji being Cai Wen Jai, it was mostly pretty good. I knew a good deal of what was here, but some things were new to me as well. I was surprised to see UNPC Cutscene Yuan Shu from DW4 not make the list as he apparently had a unique model in cutscene, but not in-game for whatever reason, haha.

Top tier video, and im totally not saying this because I contributed and therefore im biased.

Yess thanks for this 😍😍

There really is nothing quite like the simple catharsis of a Musou game. Sometimes you're not in the mood for a challenge and just need a good power fantasy that only the application of an anime AF weapon to thousands of hapless mooks can provide.

I loved this! It brought back a lot of fun memories, and I also learned some stuff I had no idea about. I do have a fun story about the shipping segment (not the uh.. in5est type though. I refuse to believe thats a thing), but I used to see crazy Dynasty Warriors pairings all the time back on forums and to make fun of it, I decided to make up a pairing that made no sense: Lu Xun and Cao Pi... And I talked about it so much in order to make fun of shippers... that I ended up shipping it. It still cracks me up lmao

I'd like to add few facts not mentioned in the video. I feel like there should've been a mention of the "crossover spinoffs" at the top of the iceberg, like "Dynasty Warriors: Gundam" or "Hyrule Warriors". In "Dynasty Warriors 4" (and few other games in the series) Zhan Jiao's personality is completely changed in english voice-overs compared to the original japanese ones. In japanese, he is voiced as a raving lunatic. In english, he's voiced as a dignified holy man. Another thing about english vs japanese voice acting: in original japanese every character simply states "Enemy defeated!" when beating an enemy officer, while the english voice-overs had different lines for each character, like "Another soul has been judged!" or "Who else seeks death?". "Dynasty Warriors Online" was originally named "Dynasty Warriors: Broadband", but later changed the name (over a year after the initial japanese release, but before the release of the english version). There was technically a cross-over with the "Shin Megami Tensei" franchise in the form of a cameo - in the now-defunct MMO "Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine" players could obtain Wu, Wei and Shu uniforms, as depicted in then-current Dynasty Warriors games.

Sima yi can be morally grey and absolutely whipped 46:17 I mean...the entire game sugar coats a lot of things, the relationship isn't the only thing.

I miss the english dubbed dynasty and samurai warriors games. Great voices!!!

As someone who's been a big fan of the franchise for a long time, it's really cool to see people still enjoying the games and finding more and more things to talk about. I'm very glad this video was recommended to me!

Super fun video. Would have loved to see the inclusion of the ROTK series (technically there were two?) but I'm talking about the one from 2010 as it's really good.

Love the vid man DW is one of my main franchises I play. Tho I will say I really loved the movie as long as it's the dub because it reminds me of the "good" voice acting from the old games

The force of Jin does get mentioned in dynasty tactics 2 with 90% of the wei army converting under Sima Yi'a rule after the battle of Chi Bi, Wei force marches into the Wu territory. Many officers are against the idea the dialogue complaints are pretty nice on the way to the wu capital city.

I grew up on Kessen 2 before i discovered the reat of the series. Even among what few Warriors fans i come across, im the only one who ever knows about it. It honestly feels really good seeing it appear in a video

Great video, love the trip down all the dynasty warriors games. Though it really is funny when you went about the Cao Cao and Cao Pi issue and then you proceed to butcher the names of a bunch of other characters, eg Cai Wen Ji. Love the video still though

15:13 Look, Tomar, it's you! I knew I recognized his voice there!

Thanks, I needed this! If I was you I would employ S M Zeus!

This franchise is severely underrated

Quality content. Wow.

A neat DW3 thing is the item that can be located that upgrades your regular max level armored bodyguards into a separate skin officer with the strand of ribbon coming out of their hair. Once obtained it can be applied to even low level privates to change their look.

This right here! A Warriors fan guidebook!!!

sima yi's wife historically and accurately out smarted sima yi so it is kinda funny he actually is whipped. there is a specific documented case where she used a hunger strike to pull simayi away from his second wife and sima yi being actually impressed by her scheming

I wish the many movesets and exclusive characters from dynasty warriors online came back, such as player surrogates such as Xiahou Bang, Sima Quan and Cao Wenming, Jamadhar, Snake Blade and Ogre Fist. Fortunately many outfits from the online games did return in dw8e onwards

I didn't even know I wanted this video until right now

"I am Cow Pee, like my father Cow Cow"

Cai wenji is pronounced “Tsai When Jee”

Pls play EVERY SENGOKU BASARA GAME trust me it’s gonna be a frickin wild ride!

When i was playing split screen in DW4 my firend was dying and i told him retreat and dont look back. He retreated for a short moment, then he looked back, and in that moment an archer killed him.

5 is when they finally got difficulty right. 2, 3, and 4 relied on cheap gimmicks such as enemy officers getting back health.

You played Superior from Dynasty Warriors 3 at the ending. Dynasty Warriors 5 is my favorite game,cause of the Stories. ☺️

to go with the Licensed Credit Songs, one particular song, CIRCUIT, has got a lot of mileage behind it, it started as the End Credits theme for DW3, came back, in I think DW4 and DW 5 Empires installments, and si the end credits theme for the DW 8 Hypothetical Route.

I miss DWO so much. I played the Japan server long before the English server came out lol.

Honestly shocked that the musou entry didn’t talk about how its sorta become the name of the game genre with even non warriors games being under the umbrella like the fate/extella games and the japan only kamen rider battride wars game

Wow i am literally doing some browsing about dynasty warrior iceberg and this video suddenly showed up

Years ago 80s or 90s, there was an animated movie that was mostly focused on Liu Be, if memory serves. All I remember was they were transporting refugees and was pretty well animated. Like Heavy Metal, American Pop, Fire and Ice good.

Well done Iceberg my friend :3

This has polished up some knowledge and the Xiahouji part really cemented the fact that she's a guilty pleasure fave of mine. Also note to self, do not mention the child thing and the fact that Ma Dai killed Wei Yan to my older brother.

On board with Warriors community since DW4 there were not many news here, some obscure games I even played when they were just released like MR2 and Blast. And yes, there was some rough time, some games like Samurai Warriors 3 Z or DW7 PC didn't see West unfourtantely. Thanks for huge portion of nostalgia, especially reminding me about Wang Yi theme. She had also great singer voice actress in the West as well, Mary McGlynn.

I think the issue with the "Realism" argument is they probably meant Authentic. I was of the opinion back as of DW6 and 7 that the weapons were just getting stupid, only a few prior were particularly outlandlish like the flute. While not realistic, they felt authentic as weapons in the era. Then you get many which are just ridiculous as it went. Now I still believe it's an excuse, they had far too few weapons even then, but I get the thought behind it.

I'd like to add Peng Guo's San comics and the eyeball dumpling inside joke to the bottom of the iceberg. Very very obscure but occasionally referenced by the community.

Amazing video and great stroll through memory and nostalgia! Also amyome that starts a comment w "you forgot xxxx" can sit on a lu bu spear is free to make their own video

I can confirm on the 2008 Olympics. I kept hearing the song in the swimming competition

17:00 Sima Yi's original Japanese VA died in between DW8 and DW8E, rest in peace, the new laugh is just not the same....(also he was married from Samurai Warrior's Gracia's VA), another VA that has died I know of is Takeda Shingen's from Samurai(I know this because he was also the VA for Heihachi in Tekken)

That Cai Wenji's Erhu makes sense with her outfit.. ever since her release in dw7, i always feel off with her outfit.. it doesn't fit with a hard at all.. I really wished that they would stick with that erhu weapon.. since it felt more fitting in a chinese historical game setting

Ah archers. I remember Wu Zhang Plains in DW3 being the single worst level to play because of all the archers. They could destroy your mile long health bar in a few seconds on harder difficulties. Never bring them back lmao

A chinese friend of mine who played the violin also practised the erhu a while, he pronounced it somewhat like a british person would say "are"+"hu"

Hello dear author! I also thought about making an iceberg on , but I couldn’t find interesting topics that I could know about. But I really liked your video. Can I translate it into my language and more?

Tortoise armor in DW3 is a MUST in every equipment build because of how it negates the knockback of archers haha

I feel like Wo Long Fallen Dynasty could be squeezed in here somewhere as it's another koei game with romance of the three kingdoms characters

New to your channel, where would you place DW9E in your tier list?