Sangoku Musou (JP)
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FUN FACT
It’s the game to blame for why the Dynasty Warriors titles never match up between Japan and North America! This fighting game was released in Japan as Sangoku Musou, roughly translated as Warriors of the Three Kingdoms. The PlayStation 2 sequel that would set the series’ naming convention was known as Shin Sangoku Musou, or basically NEW Warriors of the Three Kingdoms.
In the West, Koei chose to stick with the Dynasty Warriors name and simply starting adding numbers from there. That’s why, to this day, the English Dynasty Warriors series outnumbers the Japanese original: Shin Sangoku Musou 8 in Japan is known as Dynasty Warriors 9 everywhere else. Truly a lifelong point of confusion