![]() ![]() ![]() There are a few side missions thrown into the mix, but they’re typically short affairs that reuse the main levels. The game is comprised of a linear set of lengthy stages based on conflicts of the period, each of which end in a challenging boss fight. Returning to the village and seeing the population steadily grow adds far more emotional impact to the proceedings than interacting with a menu would, minor though it is.Ī playthrough of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is laid out more or less as you’d expect. Rather than booting you to a menu after each mission, your character can instead return to a large village filled with useful NPCs and the various people you’ve come across over the course of your adventure. It’s interesting to see fantastical interpretations of historical figures and events, and the most prominent individuals of the era very much get their due, but that’s more of a novelty the story provides than anything else Wo Long’s narrative feels more like an adaptation of events in an outline than a fully fledged story.Īnd yet despite this, it does feature some notable improvements from its spiritual predecessors with the inclusion of a hub area. There is a bit more to this basic premise-the game spends a decent chunk of its short cutscenes focusing on individual characters and their histories-but Wo Long doesn’t provide much of a through line or arc for them, nor does it try to contextualize the events that affect them beyond telling you, “Hey, this thing happened, and now another thing is happening over here!” to get you to the next stage. At the root of the conflicts in this fantasy take on the time period is the quest for Elixir, a mysterious substance everyone wants to get their hands on for its magical properties. Once you finish toying around with the surprisingly in-depth character creator, you assume control of a mute soldier on the frontlines of the war between the Three Kingdoms in the Later Han Dynasty. It’s set to release on March 3rd, 2023 from publisher Koei Tecmo for PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S, with the PS5 version being played for the purposes of this review.Īnd just like Nioh 2 before it, Wo Long is excellent. It’s a trend that’s persisted through Nioh’s sequel (which we enjoyed quite a bit here at Gamer Escape), Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, and now Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, which takes Team Ninja’s action RPG stylings to the Three Kingdoms period and draws heavily from Chinese mythology and martial arts. While the impetus of Nioh’s continued development was the success of From Software’s Souls series, the game managed to not only carve out its own unique space in the genre, but carve it with beta tests and feedback that turned into actioned improvements in the full release. ![]() Since the release of 2017’s Nioh, developer Team Ninja has been having something of an action RPG renaissance. ![]()
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