musou
musou noun: a subgenre of hack-and-slash usually involving fighting hundreds of enemies simultaneously in a mazelike 3D world, or an individual game in this genre (especially a game in the Warriors franchise).
Noun
musou (countable and uncountable, plural musou or musous)
- A subgenre of hack-and-slash usually involving fighting hundreds of enemies simultaneously in a mazelike 3D world, or an individual game in this genre (especially a game in the Warriors franchise).
- Having to babysit Al has always been one of the more frustrating elements of musou games, and being able to heal them makes these objectives much less obnoxious.2022 June 29, GamerGuides.com, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes - Strategy Guide, Gamer Guides, →ISBN
- Now, to recount the tale of how I ended up suicide bombing a castle only to begin cleaving through mobs of people like a musou game would be a very long story.2022 October 24, Schuld, Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Volume 4 Canto II, J-Novel Club, →ISBN
Forms of musou
| plural | musou |
|---|---|
| plural | musous |
Origin of musou
From Japanese 無双 (musō, “unrivaled”), the final word in the title of the 2000 game 真・三國無双 (Shin Sangokumusō, "True Three Kingdoms Unrivaled"), released in English territories as Dynasty Warriors 2.
Questions about musou
- What does musou mean?
- Musou means a subgenre of hack-and-slash usually involving fighting hundreds of enemies simultaneously in a mazelike 3D world, or an individual game in this genre (especially a game in the Warriors franchise).
- What part of speech is musou?
- Musou is a noun.
- What is the plural of musou?
- The plural of musou is musou.
Words near musou in the dictionary
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