Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Review (Draeka3)
Early impressions :
Graphics are okay but nothing special, some of the textures look great and some other bad so there's no consistency there.
Story is pretty cool so far.
Gameplay has some twists that i really like.
Basically, it feels like Nioh but smoother, faster, without the stance thing which feels better but it's a bit easy so far (some parry timings are a bit weird : same timing/attack sometimes the parry will be flawless, sometimes you'll get fucked).
Allies can sometimes be an obstacle more than a helping hand resulting in a waste of healing if you don't want them to die until next checkpoint (which can give some missions an escort mission vibe).
However, it crashes after each and every single mission.
That needs to be fixed asap.
The OST and artbook seem to be exclusive to the deluxe edition so don't even bother getting the standard for now. If you don't want to miss out on content you'll have to spill almost 100€ which is likely way too much for what that game seems to be.
A good thing is it has full controller support... Unlike Nioh (same studio) which claimed to have it but still doesn't have.
Given the fact that game is a souls-like, the optimal way to play it is using a controller...
Hoooooowever, a lot of people are review bombing the game !
Here's a sample of their arguments :
"It's not optimized for m&k"
"It's not optimized for m&k. Therefore it should not be on PC in the first place"
"It doesn't support m&k"
"It looks like an early PS3 game"
To clarify things, it does support m&k. However, most of the souls-like games are meant to be played with a controller (that includes most of the AAA ones i'm aware, part of that there's the ones by From Software aka the ones who made the genre).
Bashing this game not being made for m&k and nothing else is a ridiculous expectation.
Should a driving game be review bombed for not being built around guitar hero controllers ?
Should a platformer be review bombed for not being built around a steering wheel thingy ?
Should a strategy game be review bombed for not being built around a wii board ?
Heck no, that would make no sense.
Should game have and keep platform exclusivity based on the genre ?
No.
When it comes to hardware limitations, a PS3 game could not look like this. That's just not possible.
Sure, there's a quality gap between certain textures but it's not terrible.
One other thing :
This game being by the same team as Nioh 1&2, there's no excuse not to have a badge ad backgrounds.
This is pathetic. If you have the possibility, you might as well get it on console given the disregard for steam users.