![]() ![]() No matter whether I was holding a spear, glaive, or double sword, I could gracefully evade an enemy attack with a butterfly kick before striking with a flurry of quick stabs. The developers wanted to stay true to the flow inherent in weapon-based Chinese martial arts that shifts easily between offense and defense. If I had to place it somewhere on the Team Ninja scale, it's somewhere between Nioh and Ninja Gaiden. Your character has far more agility and movement speed than a protagonist in a typical Souls game. It became clear from the start that Wo Long is swift. (And it was a wise choice in the end.) Crouching Dragon, Hidden Spirit Leveling up uses the traditional Chinese five-element system. While it would have been prudent to switch to a Water build in hindsight, given all the Fire-element enemies I was about to face, I stuck with Fire throughout the demo. Between the different choices for starting builds, each represented by one of the five traditional Chinese elements, I went with Fire for the extra attack strength. With a quick explanation of the controls, the Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja team sent me straight into the middle of the game, on an arid mountain called Dongshan. Between Wo Long and Black Myth: Wukong, the reemergence of ancient China as a source of inspiration already looks in good hands. The Team Ninja devs said as much during the demo, wanting to create a game that was similar to Nioh but wasn’t set in Japanese history. ![]() Sure, Dynasty Warriors fans like myself will recognize some of the officers from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but I bet that most players will find the Chinese monsters and cultural references throughout the game to be a welcome change of pace. Set in the Late Han Dynasty in 149 AD, the game casts historical heroes and legends like Zhao Yun, Zhang Liang, and Lu Bu during that era in a much fiercer light. That's a part of what makes Wo Long intriguing. China isn’t sleeping anymore Upon a Fire build, this Zhuque fire bird was my default Divine Beast summon.Īpart from the Three Kingdoms games, Jade Empire, and maybe Dragon Ball in a broad sense, Chinese fantasy and mythology are rarely used as a primary setting in gaming. And after playing a new 25-minute PS5 demo of the game behind closed doors, I am all here for it. Said another way, it's Dynasty Warriors by way of Dark Souls. If you didn't have the chance to play the public demo of the game in September, fans have largely praised Team Ninja's dark-fantasy adaptation of the Three Kingdoms era from the producers of Bloodborne and Nioh. ![]() Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is one of the most exciting new IPs in development right now. ![]()
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