Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires - Making a child and it's benefits

So you want a CAW army that starts strong without having to play through an entire game to get them? Here's how you do it. You see, when a man and a woman loves each other, they marry and then...they produce a horribly generated child that carries over their parent's title (Way of life) and become a powerful general with strong starting level, stats, and tactics. They are then able to be saved after you finish one game with them. You can then copy that character and make completely new CAW using them as a base, retaining that special title! All the game does with your children at the end of the game is just save a new CAW with a title and some tactics based on your gameplay. You can change everything else including name, appearance, moveset and even replace your generic officers.

My opinion: The whole family system in this game is pretty barren. It has absolutely GREAT potential, but for some reason 3 non-cutscene events and a weird generator is all there is to family in this game. Children and parents do not have unique interactions in battle or have any other special effects.

I also learned something else incredible this playthrough. It seems that those who inherit/attain Lu Bu's title will have his theme song play when encountered, like Diao Zhi in this guide.


Trivia: The child featured in this guide, 貂芷 (The 2nd character is unavailable in this game so I made do) is from Fantasia Sango (幻想三国志) a fantasy RPG made in the early 2000s. Though it's quite old I do recommend trying it sometimes if you like RPGs.