Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Review

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Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty has provided a fun and enjoyable experience by using the successful formula of the Nioh series and combining it with new elements. Stay with Zoomji by reviewing this game.

Team Ninja can be considered one of the successful studios. The games of this studio have mostly provided a pleasant hack and slash experience to the audience. But, Team Ninja games are not only famous for their hack and slash elements. Rather, the challenge they put in the heart of their product and its good combination with gameplay and other elements is what has caused us to see things like Ninja Gaiden or Nioh over the past decades and years.

Now, after the success of the Nioh series, Team Ninja has applied its successful formula to Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. Therefore, the main question is whether the latest creation of Team Ninja has been able to provide a fun and of course new experience or is it just a skin for the Nioh series? In response, I must say that the game is generally a fun product, but it also has problems that cannot be ignored.

The story of the game is told in the Han Chinese period. Different tribes try to win and rule by means of a special elixir that gives a demonic power to the user. In fact, the desired elixir is filled with the power of Demonic Qi and you have the duty to destroy its source. The game starts with a cutscene of some soldiers attacking a village. The main character is killing soldiers and protecting the village when he meets a blind person. A person who customizes the game’s character on a new adventure.

If you have any information about the story of the legend of three brothers or have watched its movie and serial content, the color and flavor of the story will definitely be different for you.

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is a completely normal product in terms of characterization and storytelling. The fictional characters of the game are historical persons and some of them are famous in Chinese legends. In general, the story and its characters may not engage the general audience as it should and does not have a special attraction for them. Meanwhile, if you have any information about the story of the legend of three brothers or have watched its movie and serial content, the color and flavor of the story will definitely be different for you. Since the story of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is closely related to the events of the legend of the three brothers, you can relate to it and love the characters of the game.

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is a hack and slash adventure game that the developer team has used elements of Souls-like in their product to challenge the enemies. The protagonist, which you customize at the beginning of the game, can slaughter enemies one after another with his melee and long-range weapons. The customization system of the game has a good design and the player’s hand is open to create and personalize the desired character. Also, after opening the game hub, you can create your character from scratch whenever you like.

The diverse and balanced design of the game’s weapons has made the player choose the desired weapon according to his taste and fight with the enemies.

The unique design of Wo Long’s combat system is one thing that has entertained the audience. The varied and balanced design of the game’s weapons has made the player choose the desired weapon according to his taste and fight with the enemies. Each weapon has its own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, it cannot be said that the weapons of the game have made the fights unbalanced. For example, the Dual Sword is designed in such a way that it allows you to quickly and repeatedly hit enemies and bosses, but otherwise, it has a low damage rate. On the other hand, hammer and spear weapons are the exact opposite of this and despite their low hitting speed, they cause a lot of damage. Now, placing the mentioned items next to suitable long-range weapons is the thing that will shape your way of fighting and you can test different methods.

Combat in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is not limited to the use of firearms, but the story character can use four magics at the same time. These spells, which are elements such as fire, water and earth, allow you to deal more damage. Now, to complete the fighting system and make changes to the players’ playing structure, we see a very user-friendly and suitable character upgrade system. The character upgrade system is designed based on in-game elements. Upgrading them will help you increase your defensive power against various elements, as well as increase your magic damage, portable weight gain, health bar, and the like. Also, by upgrading the character several times, you will get special points and through them you can buy new spells.

The Parry system of the game has a different design and carries the main burden of winning battles, especially boss fights.

In addition, an upgrade system is also planned for your war clothes and weapons. The high accuracy and effectiveness of the character upgrade system has caused the game’s battles to take on a different color and flavor compared to previous TEAM NINJA creations, and the player can consider a different combat structure for himself. For example, make magic the main focus of your fights or just use it to annoy enemies and cancel their deathblows. Other gameplay and combat mechanisms of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty include dodging and parrying as well as Moral Rank.

While you can use simple dodging and guarding during enemy and boss battles, there’s no denying that Parry plays an important role in combat. In a way, your fights and success are related to parrying properly. All enemies and bosses apply red and fatal blows during the fight. By parrying these shots, you can quickly fill the orange bar below their health bar and then break their defense. Breaking the defense is a finishing blow that deals a lot of damage. Now, if you keep guarding or dodging the attacks of your opponents, your own orange bar will fill up. Therefore, the opponent will have the opportunity to attack you consecutively and destroy you. Parrying in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty may seem difficult and scary, but its very good design in the game allows the player, regardless of his skill level in this category of games, to be able to identify the right timing to use Parry. and use it properly.

Artificial intelligence is something Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s gameplay struggles with.

Moral Rank is a new system introduced by Team Ninja for the first time. In each stage, there are methods such as killing enemies or finding all Battle Flags, through which you can increase your morale level. This will make your defensive and offensive system in the right scale against enemies with higher Morale level. Therefore, if you don’t navigate the environment well and enter battles with a lower morale level than the boss or enemies, you will definitely experience more challenges. However, AI is something that Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s gameplay struggles with. In some stages, due to the story structure, you will be accompanied by one or two fictional characters that will be guided by the artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the very poor design of artificial intelligence has made your companions not useful at all and only appear troublesome in boss fights. This weakness also applies to enemies. Sometimes you see enemies together who, by killing one or two of them next to each other, do not notice you and your companions at all.

Visually, Wo Long is at a good level. The lighting and good details of the environment have contributed to the final quality of the game and Team Ninja has prepared different cinematic cutscenes for users. Interludes that have both good quality and provide a cinematic feeling. The face design of fictional characters is also at a good level. Although the design of the main stages of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty are exciting and fun, the secondary stages of the game are not so well designed. They are only there so that you can get more materials to upgrade your character and equipment.

The main bosses have a unique design and their fighting mechanisms can challenge you.

Also, Wo Long’s normal and elite enemies could be better designed and more varied, but the main bosses have a unique design and their combat mechanisms can challenge you. In the meantime, we should mention that the special blows of each weapon and the animation of the combos are well designed and the player enjoys doing them in competitive battles. From a technical point of view, the game on PlayStation 5 does not have any specific frame loss and runs smoothly, but you can see more or less various bugs and glitches, some of which can affect the game process to some extent.

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty has a good performance in terms of music and voice acting. Apart from being epic, the music of the game has a good match with the appearance and story of the game and can induce the atmosphere desired by the creator. Of course, the good variety of music during boss fights or exploring the environment is one of the other things that make the game look even more attractive. Also, the English and Japanese dubbing of Wo Long is at a good level. Users who cannot experience Eastern games with Japanese or Chinese dubbing (according to the story structure and manufacturer), the English dubbing of the game is at a good level.

In the end, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty may look like a similar product to Nioh, or you may think that you are dealing with a skin, but the inside is different. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty has the successful elements of the Nioh series, but also incorporates new innovations so that the user can get a new and familiar experience. An experience that will entertain you for 20 to 25 hours with all its problems.

The game has been reviewed according to the PlayStation 5 version.