[Beretta55]

You heard right about the game selling well in Japan, it's only been out a couple of weeks and already sold half a million.
https://ps2.ign.com/articles/775/775997p1.html
You can read about it here, this article also confirms Musou Orochi coming out in North America and Europe. So a few months or so I bet this game will hit both our shores, I'll get the 360 version, just like I got the last two empire games for the system.

I'm a little disappointed about no custom characters, since I would make some pretty cool spear wielding characters (my favorite weapon in the series) in the games and just destroy everyone, good times. But the sheer number of characters should be fine, plus I can have three people at a time. So my Zhao Yun, Gan Ning, and Hanzo Hattori alliance will finally be realized, awesome.

I also hope for once Koei stops the pure cheese factor of the voice acting, at least on the English side. I understand nobody is going to sound Chinese or Japanese with English voices but you can still do quality voice acting in games such as these. Yet everybody sounds inappropriate or just plain bad, but I guess that adds to the charm of the game. It’s just so cheesy that it’s good since I laugh at a lot of the cutscenes when they attempt "drama". I could switch to Japanese voice over’s, but I guess in the end I do enjoy the cheese factor of the dialogue.

It's so weird that its bad too since I've looked at a lot of the cast list and the majority of them are good and well respected anime voice actors like Crispin Freeman, Wendee Lee and Yuri Lowenthal yet everyone comes out sounding bad. I just can't imagine a world where Yuri Lowenthal, the prince of freaking Persia sounds horrible in a videogame, yet it happens it boggles my mind. So I guess there's only three certain things left in life, death, taxes, and horrible voice acting in a Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors or generally any game made by Koei.