Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty (opens in new tab) has been a sport half on my radar for awhile, however after giving its demo on Steam a attempt, this Workforce Ninja-developed Wuxia motion sport has my full consideration. I am hooked on its fight like with no Souls pretender earlier than it in no small half as a consequence of its unbelievable counter.
It is one thing midway between the all-or-nothing parries from Darkish Souls or Elden Ring and the extra forgiving excellent blocks from Sekiro. Your requisite Soulslike dodge is a jaunty little sprint that, as an alternative of offering treasured invincibility frames, needs to be timed with enemy assaults to open them up for a counterattack and lift their stagger meter for vital strikes.
It is a lot simpler to drag off than a Fromsoft parry, however a brief delay and improve to your personal stagger gauge whenever you dodge with out nailing a counter closely penalizes spamming. It feels unbelievable to drag off counter after counter in a boss struggle, and Wo Lengthy’s extra substantial battles have an interesting rhythm that jogs my memory of after I “acquired good” at Sekiro.
The story thus far is a few epic nonsense, but it surely makes for an ideal historo-fantasy slurry to simply let wash over you and fill your nostrils—yeah man, Yellow Turbans, Yellow Heaven, Azure Heaven, it is all cool. I can roll with it. Regardless of a deluge of correct nouns, I am actually digging the Han Dynasty setting, and Wo Lengthy’s Wuxia vibes make for a very good grasp.
The PC porting job is sort of a nasty grasp, nevertheless, at the least on this demo. The body fee is capped at 60fps, the choices menu is pretty sparse, and no quantity of tweaking these choices acquired me to a steady 60 at 1440p. I had minimal CPU utilization whereas my RTX 3070 topped out at 65% or so, however Wo Lengthy was content material to idly crest alongside within the mid-50s a lot of the time I used to be taking part in, impartial of any heavy exercise on-screen.
I lived by way of Darkish Souls: Put together to Die Version on Video games for Home windows Dwell although, and I can tolerate this. Wo Lengthy’s demo is an absolute blast, and pretty beneficiant too, with progress carrying over to the total sport when it releases March 3.
