Etymology

musou

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Today it 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). Full definition →

Japanese 無双
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  1. Japanese · derived from無双“unrivaled”
  2. English todaymusou

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.

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