Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

If I'm understanding this right, the game takes place in Shu and has a very similar story to Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, with a mysterious force turning people into monsters. Not to mention an extremely similar name... and it ISN'T a sequel? The hell.

I liked Wo Long a lot (it makes parrying incredibly fun/rewarding). Didn't get too far in Black Myth Wukong, wasn't into it enough to really invest the time needed to git gud. I think I got to the first major boss, the fight in a lake or something to that effect. May have been the end of chapter 1.

If this is good, and a bit easier than Black Myth, I might give it a go, especially if I drop DK Bananza from the schedule.

I want to play more but feel like my patience for navigating tiny walkways with dead ends, ladders, wrapping this way and that is pretty low.

Specifically I was just passed Shu temple, killed the guy at the top relatively easy (one charged R2 with spear staggered him immediately and I could almost chain it), made my way beneath the temple into the cave area, but felt like I missed a lot so teleported back to do the village area outside the other exit.

But that place just tries my patience. May give another weapon a shot. Not loving the spear. Was trying to work on using the L2 counter move but can’t quite work it out.

Getting my ass handed to me. I keep pressing LB to parry/block and end up getting cut in half. Lol

Vuuxo said:

Getting my ass handed to me. I keep pressing LB to parry/block and end up getting cut in half. Lol

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I hate when Soulslikes deviate from the Souls control scheme. Most of them do it with either blocking or dodging and it's obnoxious. If there's a way to reconfigure the buttons, that isn't so bad.

How does the difficulty rank versus things like Nioh, Sekiro, Black Myth?

Is there a good difficulty curve or does it spike?

For reference, I did fine with Sekiro, but only made it about halfway through Nioh before I put it down. Fast and furious gameplay is much tougher for me to get gud at than slow and steady, and the Niohs move a lot faster than Fromsoft's stuff.

Vorph said:

On a soulslike difficulty scale, I'd put it about a 4 (i.e. roughly on par with pre-DLC Nioh 2). Optionally dropping to a 1 if you decide to abuse Ethereal Form (mid-game spell).

It's not a parry game at all, so don't go in expecting anything like Sekiro or Lies of P. It's very different from Wukong (which I personally hated almost as much as I did Sekiro) too. If anything the combat is more like the early Souls games, right down to magic being grossly overpowered.

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That's cool, I don't really have it in me to git gud at anything super-difficult. I never found the early Souls games to even be hard at all and always get a laugh out of all the mainstream videos/articles acting like they're the Carolina Reaper of video games. Dark Souls 1 and Demon Souls are both easy as shit with a caster build, or a melee build if you level grind, with the only potential disaster being if you let worlds fall into PBWT (especially world 4) in Demon Souls.

Surprised that Nioh 2 is only a 4. Was under the impression all this time that Nioh 2 was super-hard, like top of the heap for Soulslikes.

Maybe I should give the Niohs another shot. Left off halfway through the first one. Was struggling, but nothing worse than my first time through Dark Souls 2. Not sure if I got the slow spell yet that gimps bosses.

As for Wuchang, I started it and did an hour or so, it's a high-quality game. I suggest plunking down $10 extra for the Deluxe upgrade because it has some pretty sweet outfits.