Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty (opens in new tab) has been a recreation half on my radar for awhile, however after giving its demo on Steam a strive, this Crew Ninja-developed Wuxia motion recreation has my full consideration. I am hooked on its fight like with no Souls pretender earlier than it in no small half on account 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 good blocks from Sekiro. Your requisite Soulslike dodge is a jaunty little sprint that, as a substitute of offering valuable invincibility frames, needs to be timed with enemy assaults to open them up for a counterattack and lift their stagger meter for crucial strikes.
It is a lot simpler to drag off than a Fromsoft parry, however a brief delay and improve to your individual stagger gauge once you dodge with out nailing a counter closely penalizes spamming. It feels unbelievable to drag off counter after counter in a boss combat, and Wo Lengthy’s extra substantial battles have an interesting rhythm that jogs my memory of once I “received good” at Sekiro.
The story to date is a few epic nonsense, nevertheless it makes for an ideal historo-fantasy slurry to only 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 extremely good dangle.
The PC porting job is sort of a nasty dangle, nevertheless, no less than on this demo. The body charge is capped at 60fps, the choices menu is pretty sparse, and no quantity of tweaking these choices received me to a secure 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 enjoying, impartial of any heavy exercise on-screen.
I lived by means of Darkish Souls: Put together to Die Version on Video games for Home windows Stay 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 recreation when it releases March 3.