Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
2020 · Koei
Source book
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms — Luo Guanzhong
A strategy campaign of the period. The English title names the novel; the Japanese title names the history.
Platforms
PlayStation 4, Windows, Nintendo Switch
Fidelity
The fourteenth Koei installment, released 16 January 2020 for PlayStation 4 and Windows in Japan and Taiwan, and on Switch in Japan on 9 December 2020, with an international Switch release after that. Wikipedia's series article says the English title refers to Luo Guanzhong's novel, while the Japanese title Sangokushi refers to Chen Shou's historical Records of the Three Kingdoms. It is a grand-strategy game of the era, not a reading of the novel's chapters.
Read first?
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When to read first
Read the novel first only if you want its character portraits before the game lets you play those rulers as counters. You do not need it to understand the campaign.
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When playing first is fine
Play first. You will get the wars and the famous names. The novel is a thousand pages of a different pleasure, and it will still be there.
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Why
The title is a book. The game is a sandbox of the history the book also uses. That is enough of a gap to play whenever you like.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_XIV
The call above is an editorial reading of that public page. If the page and this note disagree, believe the page.
