My friend keeps referencing a quote from Samurai Warriors (the first one, PS2 era) so on a lark I surprised her with a co-op session via parsec. Best musuo era, for sure, although that acting makes us both laugh. (I never played it, why is Nobunaga Oda a Japanese Darth Vader?!)
Graphically, it's a little silly in curscenes but everything else holds up except for a weird level up system. The combos and combat are somehow better than later games since it's tougher and every enemy counts (polygon counts keep it from the comical amounts in later games where you attack once and like 50 people die). Every character gets a campaign with multiple endings, too, which is something I missed.
The quote is Okuni's "a dreeaaaam, an illusioooon~" monologue in her ending because the VA is uh... not great, and my friend does the voice spot on.