Koei Tecmo has uploaded character trailers for the last 8 base playable characters in Dynasty Warriors 9. We start with Liu Shan, Liu Bei’s son and the second emperor of Shu. He is being depicted in Dynasty Warriors as a character who, although actually able, is hiding his ability by acting aloof, leading many people to think of him as an imbecile. After being somehow assigned the Dragon Stool in Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires, he reverts back to Rapier which was his unique weapon type in Dynasty Warriors 8 and Xtreme Legends.

Guan Yinping is Guan Yu’s beautiful daughter who is said to be one of the possible causes of Wu betraying Shu when Guan Yu insulted Sun Quan for proposing to marry one of his sons to her. In Dynasty Warriors she is being depicted as an airheaded girl who can easily wield heavy objects. However, she loses her Double Mace from her Dynasty Warriors 8 debut and now shares the Cudgel with Pang De.
Li Dian is a general serving Cao Cao who is well known to have a good intuition of predicting enemy ploys. He loses the eccentric Wheel Halberd from his debut in Dynasty Warriors 8 so he is now sharing Guan Yu’s Crescent Glaive.

Cao Ren is Cao Cao’s cousin who also served him as the Minister of War. He gained recognition from Cao Cao’s son Cao Pi who would promote him even further after becoming the Emperor of Wei. Here he loses his iconic Buckler Blade and goes back to sharing the Chain Flail with Dong Zhuo just like in Dynasty War...