WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers

♥♥♥♥ Performance, ♥♥♥♥ Items, ♥♥♥♥ Boss Design, Confusing Map Design. The game repeats all mistakes that were done by previous Souls like. But what do i expect from a "Chinese" studio. Shame really. Nine Sols is a game from a Chinese Studio that shows how its done. But this feels just like a cheap cashgrab. Stay away from it. buy Darksouls 3 instead

I really wanted to make my way to the end of this, but it's just not going to happen. The thing is, I [i] really like [/i] the combat here. I'm not a diehard Souls-like fan as I find the combat typically too punishing. I'm not sure I feel that way here. At least most of the time. Enemies are fun to fight, learning their attack patterns legitimately made me feel like I was doing pretty dang well. But the bosses? Yeah, man.. no. Just.. no. I can sort of force myself to accept that they can kill you within a few hits. I get it. They're bosses. But it's worse than that with multiple combo moves you can't interrupt, far too much of a focus on dodges, and even with grinding a few more upgrades it doesn't feel like I've improved much at all. And that's [i] weird [/i] for a souls-like. Part of the process is almost always grinding areas to gain whatever stuff you need to upgrade, and doing so. Yes, you do that here. But it feels so incredibly unrewarding. And as I'm stumbling my way around the snowy castle environment with every intention on disrupting the upcoming wedding, I'm faced with a dilemma. Do I spend more time running around in circles trying to figure out where to go next, or what I'm supposed to do next? Or do I cut my losses and move onto something else. I think games are meant to be played for as long as you're enjoying them. For me that was about 4 hours, and the last hour was like spending some time trying to convince myself the fun could be had again. Unfortunately it just served as a continuous reminder of the things that really bugged me about the game. Boss fights being incredibly difficult due to a "everything must be perfect," requirement. The lack of direction towards whatever it is you're doing. A story that takes the last seat in a row of the game's attributes. It's a story that sounds great on the surface level, but the game doesn't really dig into it. You get some conversations about key elements, but those characters are so boring. Oh, we're boring too. Personality of a doorknob and all that. Anyway, I'm going to recommend this with the world's smallest thumb's up.