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  • The storyline of the third game as a whole. While the two base games already have their fair shares of heartrending moments, they are nevertheless still about humans fighting among themselves on roughly equal footings. The third game outrightly shatters this by giving you a premise where much of humanity is wiped out with the sudden arrival of this Hydra cataclysm, resulting in most of the characters you've known either dead or brainwashed into servitude. Then you are treated with the intro level where you are thrown into the Fire and Brimstone Hell that is what remains of the world, pulling out one last desperately attempt to fight off the enroaching monstrosity, which of course fails miserably. You watches your allies die one by one while the Ominous Latin Chanting plays in the background... Surprising how a Warriors game can make you feel so desolate, isn't it?
  • The Youja/Hydra in the third game. The initial premise of this series is to make a cool crossover game between Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors. So basically, most fans never actually expect such creature would exist in the game's universe, and the Hydra's very existence is enough to scare you. And we have yet to mention the Downer Beginning of the third game thanks to this Hydra.
    • To put into measure how strong this thing is, it single-handedly devastated the merged world Orochi created, and it also fused more locations across time and space to it. This creature also destabilized time itself so badly that Kaguya is unable to travel before the creature's birth until Da Ji joins the group. On the physical department, the monster is all but immune to conventional damage, to the point that the mission it's faced in (which can be played at any time) is completely unwinnable until Taigong Wang creates the Yashio'ori, and it's still nearly impossible to win its pre-Redux version with it.
    • The Hydra becomes even more terrifying near the end of the game and in 4, when it's revealed that it's Orochi's disembodied power made manifest in the form of a murderous Destroyer Deity. That thing's endgame was the complete destruction of all of reality. And it came frighteningly close to succeeding. Kaguya's intervention saved everything, literally.
    • In the fourth game, Odin, himself also an Omnicidal Maniac, brings the Hydra/God of Destruction back as Orochi X. Fortunately he also revived the real Orochi by accident, which allowed the latter to stop the beast from fully manifesting and starting the horror anew.
  • Also from the third game, Hundun. A massive four-armed warrior with four massive wings (and yes, flying attacks are in his moveset), a massive hatchet in each hant, and a huge white wolf's head. He absolutely towers over the entire cast, including Gyuki, and makes everyone nervous. He wants nothing more than chaos and actively attacks anyone who tries to restore order. And he FLIRTS with Kyubi, the sadist who tried to assassinate the Yellow Emperor.

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