Samurai Warriors 5 Adds Five New Playable Characters - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 April 2021 / 1,118 Views

Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force announced Takakage Kobayakawa, Hisahide Matsunaga, Kagetora Nagao, Shingen Takeda, and Motonari Mori will be playable characters in Samurai Warriors 5.

The game once it releases this summer will include 27 playable characters that were chosen based on the story. Check out the list of 23 playable characters so far confirmed below:

Hanbei Takenaka
Hideyoshi Hashiba
Hisahide Matsunaga
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Kagetora Nagao
Kanbei Kuroda
Katsuie Shibata
Kazuuji Nakamura
Nagamasa Azai
Mitsuhide Akechi
Mitsuki
Motonari Mori
No
Nobunaga Oda
Oichi
Sena
Shikanosuke Yamanaka
Shingen Takeda
Tadakatsu Honda
Takakage Kobayakawa
Toshiie Maeda
Toshimitsu Saito
Yoshimoto Imagawa

Samurai Warriors 5 will launch for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in Japan on June 24, followed by the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in the west and PC via Steam worldwide on July 27.

Thanks, Gematsu.

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