Image courtesy of Koei Tecmo and Omega Force
The Dynasty Warriors series’ development team from Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force published its 2024 New Year’s Card. The team has been known for sharing a new card with a Chinese zodiac animal theme every New Year’s Day. As 2024 is also the Year of the Dragon, it features characters closely related to the mythical creature.
Two of the most closely related characters are Zhao Yun, whose courtesy name “Zilong” includes the “Long” hanzi letter meaning “Dragon,” and Zhuge Liang, who is also known as the “Sleeping Dragon.” Omega Force also put Guan Yu and Ma Chao into the picture, since the team used the Dragon as a motif for both characters’ outfits. All four characters in this card are affiliated with Liu Bei’s kingdom of Shu.
The card also features a message from the series’ producer Akihiro Suzuki. He noted that Koei Tecmo’s own Dynasty Warriors mobile game will have its third anniversary in March 2024. However, he also apologized deeply for failing to release information about a new console game for two years straight since 2022. The new mobile game Dynasty Warriors M released in late 2023 did not count, since it came from an external development by Nexon. Suzuki added that his team might still need more time to prepare the new game, although he really wanted to make the reveal in 2024.
The card only appears on New Year’s Day on the series’ portal site. However, Akihiro Suzuki also made a post on the Japanese official Dynasty Warriors X account. The tweet is available to view right below:
Omega Force based the character outfits in this 2024 New Year’s Card on Dynasty Warriors 9, the series’ latest mainline entry to date which came out in 2018. The latest console game is Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires, which Koei Tecmo released on the PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC worldwide between December 2021 and February 2022.
