History YMMV / SamuraiWarriors

* WTHCastingAgency:
** This depends on which version most players have tried first; it certainly doesn't help the roster gets cleaned out with every major installment. Most seem to agree Keiji's voice actor in ''Samurai Warriors 2'' was a definite downgrade from his [[Creator/SteveBlum well-beloved one]] in the first game.
** Hilariously, Keiji's English voice actor in ''Samurai Warriors 3'' and ''Warriors Orochi'' is a [[Creator/RogerCraigSmith man]] who voiced [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog someone else]] in the exact same type of voice his ''Samurai Warriors 2'' voice actor used.
** Hideyoshi in the English dub of ''Samurai Warriors 2'' sounded like WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, which simply doesn't fit in the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod setting.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Western neophyte players in particular might just be surprised at how much of what's presented in these games is based closely on ''historical fact''. For example, the "star-crossed lovers" arc for Ōichi and Nagamasa Azai? Yep, that one's out of Japanese history, as is [[spoiler:her death at Shizugatake, albeit the game has her fighting alongside Katsuie Shibata, who was her husband after Nagamasa, instead of committing ''seppuku'' with him]].

** Mitsunari's final stage in ''4-II'': if any enemy officer enters the Western Army's main camp, [[NonStandardGameOver it's an automatic game over]].

* WhatMeasureIsANonBadass: Naotora probably wouldn't have that much of flak on the West side if her personality is not that of [[ShrinkingViolet a shy moeblob]], which is perceived to be something very far from the term 'badass'... at least on the surface.

* TheScrappy: Hisahide Matsunaga from ''SW4'' was ill-received for his ridiculously over-the-top character design (even by ''Samurai Warriors'' standards), [[CardCarryingVillain general pretentiousness]], the undue importance put on his presence in the Oda camp (for some reason, he suddenly takes credit to Hideyoshi's accomplishment in Kanegasaki for the Oda Legend chapter, though it's much to Hisahide's chagrin) and soaking up what some feel to be a disproportionate amount of screen-time (see {{Sequelitis}} below). Official fan polls also show the likes of Goemon Ishikawa, Yoshimoto Imagawa and Ieyasu Tokugawa not being received well by the fanbase.

* TheScrappy: Matsunaga Hisahide was ill-received for his ridiculously over-the-top character design (even by ''Samurai Warriors'' standards), [[CardCarryingVillain general pretentiousness]], the undue importance put on his presence in the Oda camp (for some reason, he suddenly takes credit to Hideyoshi's accomplishment in Kanegasaki for the Oda Legend chapter, though it's much to Hisahide's chagrin) and soaking up what some feel to be a disproportionate amount of screen-time (see {{Sequelitis}} below). Official fan polls also show the likes of Goemon Ishikawa, Yoshimoto Imagawa and Ieyasu Tokugawa not being received well by the fanbase.

** In ''4'', Tokugawa Ieyasu's normal praise is "You're an asset to me", which is fine. If he said it to [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Ii Naotora]], though, it unwittingly [[BuxomIsBetter means something else]].

** Koei Tecmo ignored the reason Gracia's well-known in the first place in favor of an original story with her and Magoichi in her first appearance for ''2: Xtreme Legends''; Wiki/TheOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosokawa_Gracia good article on her actual history]]. ''3: Xtreme Legends'' certainly pays a little more attention to her history, though it still skips on the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian reason why she's historically famous]]. Chances are the publisher wants to avoid any sort of religious controversy and the only clues to her Christian background are her foreign name (instead of her default name "Tamako") and her outlandish fashion style (evoking ElegantGothicLolita).

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** While it comes at the cost of a smaller roster (27 down from 50 as of ''4-II''), ''Samurai Warriors 5'' dialing the scope back to a more focused retelling of the Oda clan's rise and fall was met with approval after the looser, less-connected stories told in ''3'' and ''4'', which [[DemotedToExtra shafted]] many key players (not least of all, Nobunaga himself) in favor of more divisive new characters.
** While there have been non-Japanese {{Samurai}} historically (such as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_%28sailor%29 Miura Anjin/William Adams]]), it was thought that Koei Tecmo didn't include them in order to avoid UnfortunateImplications, but Yasuke being a part of the ''Samurai Warriors 5'' roster has dispelled such a notion.