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'''Warriors All-Stars (無双☆スターズ Musō ☆ Sutāzu in Japanese)''' is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover HackAndSlash video game developed and published by [[Creator/{{Koei}} Koei Tecmo]], in the same vein as ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'' before it. Unlike ''Warriors Orochi'', which focused specifically (and, at first, exclusively) on ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' and ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'', ''Warriors All-Stars'' encompasses more than ten of Koei Tecmo's non-licensed titles. It was released on the Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita in Japan and Taiwan on March 30, 2017, and it was later released in North America on August 29, 2017 and in Europe on September 3, 2017, for the PC and the [=PS4=].

There exists a MagicalLand that has long prospered thanks to a miraculous spring. However, the king who controls the spring has died, sending the world onto the path of destruction. To save it, the queen tells her daughter Princess Tamaki of a legend of a hero from another world that will grant his power to his guide, to help him/her become the new ruler. If the guide is coronated the new ruler of this land, he/she will have the power to revive the spring. Tamaki attempts a ritual to summon this hero, but her spell goes haywire, instead summoning multiple heroes from various worlds, scattering them across their land. To make matters worse, Tamaki's older brother Shiki and cousin Setsuna also have their sights set on the crown, dividing all of the summoned heroes into three opposing factions.

The playable roster consists of the following characters:
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* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': Zhao Yun, Wang Yuanji, Zhou Cang, Lu Bu
* ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'': Yukimura Sanada, Mitsunari Ishida, Naotora Ii
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'': Ryu Hayabusa
* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'': Kasumi, Marie Rose, Honoka, Ayane[[note]]Although Ayane originates from ''Dead of Alive'', ''Warriors All-Stars'' uses her ''Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge'' appearance[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}'': Oka, Horo, Tokitsugu
* ''VideoGame/AtelierSophieTheAlchemistOfTheMysteriousBook'': Sophie Neuenmuller, Plachta
* ''[[VideoGame/HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 6]]'': Hajime Arima, Darius
* ''VideoGame/{{Deception}}'': Millennia, Laegrinna
* ''VideoGame/{{Opoona}}'': Opoona
* ''[[Anime/RioRainbowGate Super Black Jack]]'': Rio Rollins Tachibana
* ''Nobunyaga's Ambition/Samurai Cats'': Oda Nobunyaga
* ''VideoGame/NightsOfAzure'': Arnice, Christophorus
* ''Videogame/{{Nioh}}'': William
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!!''Warriors All-Stars'' has the following tropes:

* AccidentalPervert: In Oka's recruitement mission as Tamaki's team, Zhao Yun is accused of looking at her while she was bathing. In truth he was searching for bandits and was blamed instead of the bandit who was peeking on her. Zhao Yun being [[OfficerAndAGentleman Zhao Yun]], keeps telling her that he has no perverted thoughts.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** William, coming from a ''Souls-like'', usually struggles against more than one enemy at a time. Here, he's as much a OneManArmy as your typical Warriors player character.
** Rio's the star of a series of Pachinko machines. That said, she wrecks all kinds of face with oversized poker chips, dice, and the like.
* AlreadyMetEveryone: {{Zigzagged}}; some members of the roster should already be familiar with each other due to prior {{Crossover}}s.
** Thanks to [[VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi Orochi]], the ''Dynasty Warriors'' and ''Samurai Warriors'' characters have already met, as well as Ryu, Ayane and Kasumi. There's also a casual tie to the ''Atelier'' series thanks to Sterk (who appeared in ''Warriors Orochi 3''), but he does not belong to the same {{Continuity}} as Sophie and Plachta (the representatives here). It's worth noting that due to [[TimeyWimeyBall continuum-imploding time-travel abuse]] [[spoiler:culminating in a borderline TimeCrash, nobody from ''Orochi'' remembers the events that took place]].
** Rio made a cameo in ''Dead or Alive: Paradise'', a Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable SpinOff of the ''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' games, where she dealt at the casino and can be used to play games with as a non-combatant. Meanwhile, Naotora became a GuestFighter in ''Dead or Alive 5: Last Round''.
** Played with in regards to the ''Samurai Warriors'' cast, Nobunyaga and William: all existed, and at times, interacted with each other during the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod in RealLife. However, in ''Warriors All-Stars'', all exist in different iterations of the time period.
* BadassAdorable: [[VideoGame/AtelierSophieTheAlchemistOfTheMysteriousBook Sophie, Plachta,]] [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Honoka, Marie Rose,]] [[VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors Naotora Ii,]] [[VideoGame/{{Toukiden}} Horo]] and [[VideoGame/NightsOfAzure Christophorus]] to name a few.
* BigBad: Yomi [[spoiler: with Sayo serving as her [[BrainwashedAndCrazy unwilling]] [[TheDragon dragon]].]]
* BilingualDialogue: Any battle with William in it, since he's the only character that speaks English. Semi-justified because William is bilingual through use of TranslatorMicrobes, though not so much for everyone else.
* BittersweetEnding: Some of the ending who are not the True ending. [[spoiler: The Tamaki is Ruler ending has Tamaki becoming ruler knowing that doing this is a sacrifice (while also allowing Yomi to use her massive magic to weaken the seal later on, Setsuna's ending ends with him dying to become the eternal ruler and strenghten the seal, Shiki's ending ends with him destroying the spring hoping it would stop Yomi while also condemming the world to its death. And then, there is some characters ending like Horo and Plachta's ending which ends with them losing their memories trying to stop Sayo and Laegrinna and Millenia's ending which ends with Shiki and Tamaki sacrificing their lives to sent the two [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] back to their world (or rather, Laegrinna's world with Millenia stuck here far from Yocal and the Timenoids).]]
* CallASmeerpARabbit: The residents of the OriginalGeneration world the game takes place in call themselves humans. We'd call them fox-like PettingZooPeople. The implication is TranslationConvention is hitting an interesting snag.
* CastFromLifespan: As a ruler, they must sacrifice their life energy to make sure the spring still provides life. [[spoiler: that's because the spring inhabits a demon who drains the life of the ruler. This also explains why Shiki acted harsh toward Tamaki since he wanted to not have her large magic energy to fall in the demon's hands.]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Setsuna. If one of the Heroes is a beautiful woman, he will aim to drop everything to help her out before doing anything else. Shiki even lampshades this when the option to recruit Honoka opens up on his path, "If she's a beautiful woman, then Setsuna will be looking for her. We'll find her first."
* CrisisCrossover: Is one towards Koei Tecmo works, featuring their characters from a bunch of their intellectual properties. However, only first-party Koei Tecmo characters were eligible for the ballot when guests were being decided, so nobody from their licensed HackAndSlash games (so no ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam'', ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' et. al.)
* DownloadableContent: Transformation costumes dresses up one character as another member of the roster - for example, Yukimura as Ryu, Wang Yuanji as Kasumi, Hajime as Yukimura, Millennia as Plachta and Marie Rose as Opoona.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Depending on player choices Millenia and Laegrinna can end up taking rather poorly to the game's LighterAndSofter nature, leading to the pair defecting and going on a [[KillEmAll rampage]]. [[spoiler: Shiki and Tamaki end up pulling an apparent HeroicSacrifice just to send the pair back, reasoning that even if the loss of two "Heroes" lowers the chance of saving the world there will at least be a world left to save.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Laegrinna and Millenia in one ending, Sophie, Wang Yuanji and Oka betrays Tamaki in one ending (though they are doing it for Tamaki's sake), so is Nobunyaga, Arnice, Kasumi and Chris who betray Setsuna in their ending and Lu Bu in his ending.]]
* GenderEqualEnsemble: The roster is nearly split equally between men and women, with 14 males and 16 females.
* GoldenEnding: The true ending, which is achieved by collecting all the Monument Fragments, purifying all the Heroes, and learning the truth behind Yomi.
* HailfirePeaks: As a result of the CrisisCrossover, elements of each series' worlds have merged with the OriginalGeneration's world. This results in the various battlefields encompassing the various themes taken from the various games, ranging from traditional Chinese and Japanese enviroments seen in previous ''Warriors'' games to the CelShaded {{Animesque}} fields from ''Atelier'' and even, thanks to Rio, a casino. Some of the themes even merge together, especially some of the original ''Warriors'' being rethemed for the game's world.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Zhao Yun's always had a dragon motif, but now he can summon a ''[[UpToEleven literal dragon spirit]]''.
* {{Irony}}: Laegrinna ends up fighting enemy armies and brainwashed victims to stop an ancient evil from breaking its seal and making the entire land suffer. Back home, she's murdering innocent people to ''cause'' exactly that.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to ''Warriors Orochi'' - while there is a war, it's for less malevolent reasons. The characters are summoned to restore order to the OriginalGeneration kingdom and the conflict is waged by three heirs to the throne, unlike the world-destroying plots caused by Orochi.
** However, it's not without its dark moments. [[spoiler: The villain wants to have Tamaki as a ruler for her magical energy to weaken the seal and she's using Tamaki and Shiki's mother as a vessel for her actions, the factions endings are [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]], many of the characters endings are borderline [[DownerEnding downer endings]] like Horo and Plachta losing their memories while confronting said mother, Sophie, Wang Yuanji and Oka betraying Tamaki to join Shiki even though they are doing it to save her, Laegrinna and Millenia going on a killing spree to return home quicker and Ryu, William and Yukimura keeping Sayo under control knowing they will never meet Shiki ever again.]]
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Laegrinna and Millenia don't attack directly, using strings of traps to do damage, meaning their attacks will either be a mostly-harmless poke or a devastating inescapable combo depending on their spacing. Additionally, Laegrinna's strong attacks lay down hidden traps that have to be activated manually, but if they do land, they do significantly more damage than the setup version.
* MeleeATrois: Each of the heroes will align with Tamaki, Shiki and Setsuna competing to be king, based on the series they hail from.
** Tamaki has Zhao Yun, Wang Yuanji, Zhou Cang, Lu Bu, Oka, Horo, Tokitsugu, Opoona, Sophie and Plachta.
** Shiki has Yukimura, Mitsunari, Naotara, Hajime, Darius, William, Hayabusa and Ayane.
** Setsuna has Kasumi, Marie Rose, Honoka, Nobunyaga, Millenia, Laegrinna, Rio, Arnice and Christophus.
* MultipleEndings: Oodles of them. Depending on who is chosen to start, which battles are fought, and who is recruited in what order, the story branches significantly. Oftentimes the main plot can fall by the wayside in pursuit of a character's personal ending.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Laegrinna is a starter option and mandatory for Setsuna's Story to transition to the true story... And if she appears in cutscenes at all, it's in the background. When addressed, she displays complete disinterest in what's going on and just ask who they want her to kill next, usually in [[MoodWhiplash jarring contrast]] to Kasumi and Arnice's optimism.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Due to the developers trying to keep every characters' original design (if not, outright use the models), all character appearances fit on a sliding scale of "realistic vs. stylized" - for the former, the nearly photo-realistic William tops that end, followed by the "semi-realistic" designs from most of Koei Tecmo's games, like Zhao Yun, Yukimura and Ryu. CelShaded {{Animesque}} people (primarly from Creator/GustCorporation) like Sophie, Hajime and Rio start veering towards the other side, and on the "stylized" end are Nobunyaga and Opoona, the complete oddballs.
* OffTheRails: Some story paths end up like this. In particular, [[spoiler:one path has Laegrinna and Millennia get sick of a world neither wants to be in and start causing wanton destruction in an effort to get home - which is bad for everyone else since [[VillainProtagonist neither has a functioning conscience]] and they can't be reasoned with. The heroes' overall plan is sunk and two of them have to perform a HeroicSacrifice to unsummon them so there's a world left to save, which gives the ''Deception'' pair [[TheBadGuyWins exactly what they want]].]]
* OriginalGeneration: Tamaki, Shiki, Setsuna and other characters debut specifically for this {{Crossover}}.
* PettingZooPeople: The OriginalGeneration are anthropomorphic beings, specifically of the fox variety.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Natural when you bring so many guests into one gameplay style. In particular, Lu Bu has lost a lot of his stage presence due to everyone else being badass enough to keep up with him. (Being [[BloodKnight Lu Bu]], he thinks this is awesome.)
* RelationshipValues: Everyone has them with literally every other playable character they could ever share a team with, which unlock passive skills as they increase.
* SchizoTech: Outside of the ''NinjaGaiden'' and ''DeadOrAlive'' themed battlefields (a whole city and a beach party respectively), at the Hub temple, you can find a lounging room with massage chairs and arcade machines of what appears to be the original ''NinjaGaiden'' in what is supposedly an overgrown south-asian style temple.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: The spring contains a demon named Yomi who sucks the lifespawn of the ruler which explains why rulers have short lives.]]
* ShoutOut: In the localization, Setsuna always introduces himself to characters he just met with the phrase "Videogame/{{I am Setsuna}}".
* SupportPartyMember: Up to four team members can accompany your main fighter. They can be called upon to perform special skills, or temporarily swapped to for a coordinated assault.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Keeping in line with his portrayal in ''Nioh'', William not only speaks in English but retains his original Irish voice actor. TranslationConvention may be in effect when he talks to the other characters as with his home game.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Warriors Orochi''; in particular, the third game's inclusion of "Collaboration Characters" (such as ''Ninja Gaiden'', ''VideoGame/BladeStormTheHundredYearsWar'' and ''VideoGame/WarriorsLegendsOfTroy'') can be taken as a predecessor to ''Warriors All-Stars'', a full-blown CrisisCrossover.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: ''Dynasty Warriors'' and ''Dead or Alive'', two famous franchises made by Koei Tecmo, have four representatives. This doesn't add in representatives from ''Samurai Warriors'' and ''Ninja Gaiden'', who are closely associated with both of those series.
** Looking within the game itself you could be forgiven for assuming Sophie and, to a lesser extent, Plachta of ''Atelier Sophie'' to be the intended main characters of the game, being the chosen and supporting characters in nearly every tutorial.
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[VideoGame/{{Deception}} Millenia and Laegrinna]] in Setsuna's team.
** WrongGenreSavvy: Setsuna and his allies seem to assume the pair are just [[AntiHero rather dour with vicious abilities]], cheerfully oblivious to the fact both of them consider the [[VillainProtagonist cold-blooded and needlessly painful murder of completely innocent adventurers]] to be [[ButForMeItWasTuesday casual Friday]]. [[spoiler:This can lead to him being completely blindsided when they eventually conclude that killing everyone is the quickest way home and commit to that path without warning or remorse; see EvilIsNotAToy above.]]

'''Warriors All-Stars (無双☆スターズ Musō ☆ Sutāzu in Japanese)''' is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover HackAndSlash video game developed and published by [[Creator/{{Koei}} Koei Tecmo]], in the same vein as ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'' before it. Unlike ''Warriors Orochi'', which focused specifically (and, at first, exclusively) on ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' and ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'', ''Warriors All-Stars'' encompasses more than ten of Koei Tecmo's non-licensed titles. It was released on the Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita in Japan and Taiwan on March 30, 2017. It will be released in North America on August 29, 2017 and in Europe on September 3, 2017, for the PC and the [=PS4=].

* BilingualDialogue: Any battle with William in it, since he's the only character that speaks English. Semi-justified because William is bilingual through use of TranslationMicrobes, though not so much for everyone else.

* BilingualDialogue: Any battle with William in it, since he's the only character that speaks English. Semi-justified because William is most likely bilingual (being based of a real life western-born samurai), though not so much for everyone else.

* BigBad: Yomi [[spoiler: and Sayo.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Laegrinna and Millenia in one ending and Lu Bu in his ending.]]

* Irony: Laegrinna ends up fighting enemy armies and brainwashed victims to stop an ancient evil from breaking its seal and making the entire land suffer. Back home, she's murdering innocent people to ''cause'' exactly that.