The biggest contrast from its spiritual predecessor is that each character has a unique weapon.
"Unmatched Secret Skill Full Transmit") in Japanese. Ultimate Musou - AKA the Musou Ougi Kaiden (lit.Jumping charge attacks are the only airborne moves that can be spirit cancelled as soon as the character touches the ground. These cost one orb of the Spirit Gauge for each use and can break guards.
"Shadow Art") in the Japanese scripts done with c on Wii controllers, B on Classic Controller Pro and GameCube Controller) during any connecting normal attack, charge attack or special skill. Spirit cancels can be used to interrupt the player's combos via the Spirit Charge, known as the Kagewaza (影技, lit.The rate at which this occurs as well as the power behind the attack depends on the level of the gauge. Spirit Gauge - a gauge that builds up and allows players to cancel certain attacks in exchange for more powerful ones.It essentially follows events of the Kanto big three -which features daimyo such as Shingen, Ujiyasu and Kenshin, the three unifiers' actions for unification, and the Sekigahara Campaign. The previous character stories are replaced with a different story system, which is separated into three phases. The slowdown effect, however, is emphasized more. Musou Attacks still have the same slow motion effect and continues to allow players to act freely until the gauge is empty.
C5s and C9s from the Xtreme Legends expansion also return. The Charge, Normal, and Special action types remain from Samurai Warriors 2 and are renamed Power Attack, Normal Attack and Special Skill respectively in English.