Nioh in China with Sekiro combat approach (6.5/10).

Pros:
- Fast combat, you will feel that "old Chinese action movies" vibe from all your moves, enemy combos and attacks are readable except of few bosses.
- Followers and their leveling in order to get OP armor sets used by them
- Big variety of weapon types, Each weapon has its own three(six if its rare or 5 star) special moves
- No crafting. You will be only salvaging your loot to get enchants which can be put into another piece of gear.
- A lot of pandas
- You can deflect whole China. Deflecting damage from poison/fire puddle while standing in it, i dont understand why Wo Long was not nominated in GameAwards in category "Innovations" for it.
- For achievement hunters: You dont have to go into NG+4 for the last achievement.
- It doesnt matter where do you put your virtues(stats) you will be still able to use strong spells because each virtue has its own spell tree.

Cons:
- Lack of end game. There is only one NG+ as far i know.
- Main/Sub missions have mandatory at least one/two followers (i dont know how to get rid of them) which makes game too easy, especially boss fights.
- Armor sets from followers are too OP, with this and their help you can faceroll through the game.
- Game is poorly optimized. FPS drops.
- I could imagine more models for each weapon/armor type

Meh:
- Flags (the small one) and the whole Moral system, After 4 missions you wont even notice that there is some moral system and what is difference fighting someone with morale 15 and fighting someone with morale 20.
- Characters feels to be copy pasted from Nioh games. I found only two unique characters which were Mrs. Blacksmith and retarded Hermit.
- Story/plot is same ♥♥♥♥ as it was in Nioh games but honestly noone playing souls games for story.

If you have a chance to buy this game for 15$-20$ complete edition, its definitely worth.

For a more newer game if feels old. This game is pretty much dynasty warriors and something similar to dark souls put together. I never played NIOH, so I can't say it's close to it but even Sekiro feels better in controls than this. To me, It would have been dope if it was more like Elden Ring (open world) with the dynasty warriors lore, but it feels more like a 2005 dynasty warrior game with ugly dungeons in it.

You do quite a bit of jumping in this game and it blows my mind how I, as a normal person, has way more horizontal distance than these wuxia heroes, but at least they got vertical jump. To simplify...you jump a lot of path fixed terrain in this game trying to find these stupid flags, so you can make your character stronger for boss fights. With that being said...to me, the controls are pure butt and it makes the boss fights hard because it is clunky and it just feels slow. You have to really master the parry, timings, and know your weapon abilities in this game or you'll be suffering for it every second.

Another thing I noticed is you get helpers and occasionally, they'll say something to add to the story of the game...unfortunately, you can barely hear anything they say because you have to actually stop and face your helper just to hear them fully, and this is just stupid.

Anyways, play the demo, and if you think it sucks, don't buy it. It's not an easy game so if you like self abuse, then this game is probably more for you. I can't recommend it to the average player when there are older games in this style that feel better...plus it doesn't that I played this game after beating ghost of tsushima. So...try before you buy

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