Wo Long isn't bad, it's just incredibly disappointing. I'm not entirely sure why Team Ninja dropped the winning formula they had with Nioh 2 to make a pretty shallow combination of Sekiro and Nioh. But as a result it often struggles to match up to either game. This is what happens when you streamline mechanics so much they basically become non-existant.
Pros:
-Cool setting, especially if you're a fan of Dynasty Warriors or this period of history in general.
-Genuinely fun and engaging combat (for the most part)
-A handful of really awesome bosses, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and the final boss come to mind as great examples i'd gladly fight over and over.
Cons:
-Tons of quality of life missing. (An example that annoyed me was if you want to do multiple side missions, you have to go back to the village or the current main battlefield inbetween. Why is this necessary?)
-No world map. Just a very empty bland and lifeless hub which characters who act/speak like robots.
-About 9 or so weapon types in theory. But in practice 3 of them are just slight variations on a sword. And a couple more are just slight variations on spears.
-Woefully lacking in gear and enemy variety. You'll be fighting the same enemies from the beginning all the way to the end. (Especially the tigers, fuck those things and their fast as hell combos)
-A ton of bosses just outright suck tbh. Xiahou Dun and Liu Bei being notable examples. They are emblematic of everything wrong with Team Ninja bosses. Flying all over the arena so fast they never sit still, throwing elemental damage all over the place which really adds nothing but frustration. Combos that feel just barely within the limit of human reaction times.
Not really worth rushing out to play until a year or so from now when they release a GOTY edition that will have the basegame and 3 entire DLC's worth of content plus probably hundreds of small QOL fixes that Nioh already had btw.
Pros:
-Cool setting, especially if you're a fan of Dynasty Warriors or this period of history in general.
-Genuinely fun and engaging combat (for the most part)
-A handful of really awesome bosses, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and the final boss come to mind as great examples i'd gladly fight over and over.
Cons:
-Tons of quality of life missing. (An example that annoyed me was if you want to do multiple side missions, you have to go back to the village or the current main battlefield inbetween. Why is this necessary?)
-No world map. Just a very empty bland and lifeless hub which characters who act/speak like robots.
-About 9 or so weapon types in theory. But in practice 3 of them are just slight variations on a sword. And a couple more are just slight variations on spears.
-Woefully lacking in gear and enemy variety. You'll be fighting the same enemies from the beginning all the way to the end. (Especially the tigers, fuck those things and their fast as hell combos)
-A ton of bosses just outright suck tbh. Xiahou Dun and Liu Bei being notable examples. They are emblematic of everything wrong with Team Ninja bosses. Flying all over the arena so fast they never sit still, throwing elemental damage all over the place which really adds nothing but frustration. Combos that feel just barely within the limit of human reaction times.
Not really worth rushing out to play until a year or so from now when they release a GOTY edition that will have the basegame and 3 entire DLC's worth of content plus probably hundreds of small QOL fixes that Nioh already had btw.
brockreiher
1 year ago