Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 514 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 406 out of 514
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 514
  3. Negative: 81 out of 514

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  1. VeryCriticUser
    Mar 4, 2023
    0
    A huge step down from nioh 2 combat wise,graphic wise it's more or less the same.The huge problem with this game is the name imho,they should rename it to: "parry simulator fallen dynasty" And of course as you can expect from a modern console port the optimization on pc.... is beyond terrible. If you don't have a controller good luck playing this game. Tested on a high spec pc.
  2. SipderMun
    Mar 4, 2023
    0
    81 for this game is too much. Even 60 is too optimistic for this game. The controls on PC are insulting, graphics and animations straight from 2011, optimisation is so bad i don't even know how to describe it. Even on the controller the game feels very wacky, especially the camera. Gameplay wise it's pretty good despite the fact that it's basically a sekiro's rip-off. Overall, this might81 for this game is too much. Even 60 is too optimistic for this game. The controls on PC are insulting, graphics and animations straight from 2011, optimisation is so bad i don't even know how to describe it. Even on the controller the game feels very wacky, especially the camera. Gameplay wise it's pretty good despite the fact that it's basically a sekiro's rip-off. Overall, this might be the worst game of 2023… Expand
  3. Kookaburra26
    Mar 4, 2023
    0
    ... before crying about another Review Bombing ... let's be honest.
    Game release / PC portage = Framerate issues, Shuttering, ZERO, not a little, ZERO PC Optimisation !
    Even on RTX3070 - 16gRam ... Playstation controls visible only !? (Souls/EldenRing/Remnant/Code Vein all have functioning control schemes and rebinding....Nioh 2 gives good options & menu swap between m/k or controller    ... before crying about another Review Bombing ... let's be honest.
    Game release / PC portage = Framerate issues, Shuttering, ZERO, not a little, ZERO PC Optimisation !
    Even on RTX3070 - 16gRam ... Playstation controls visible only !? (Souls/EldenRing/Remnant/Code Vein all have functioning control schemes and rebinding....Nioh 2 gives good options & menu swap between m/k or controller icons). And terrible controls issues !!? Dev' just literally implemented the controller's deadzones into the mouse input. If you don't move your mouse fast enough, the camera will not react, regardless of your mouse sensitivity.

    PC gamers have just been insulted and taken for fools for over a year. Between the so-called next-Gen games (and I'm not necessarily looking for the NextGen type, the current generation games are graphically and technically very good in my opinion) and other triple A, poorly optimized, not finished Sold at exorbitant prices which border on the scam (Forspoken was sold for 80USD on PCDigital ?????????? For 20 hours of gamePlay).

    Honestly it has to stop !
    And if it has to go through review bombing and bad publicity, it's very sad, but obviously despite the economic situation, the studios continue to take players for idiots. So yes sorry but 0 to the score on PC (don't known about the final quality product on consoles)

    #Forspoken, #SaintRow2022, #GothamKnights, #WildHeart, #...WhosNext?    … Expand
  4. T4KED0WN
    Mar 4, 2023
    1
    No proper mouse support, I get 20% GPU usage with 30-50% usage on my 12600k. Game doesnt go above exactly 49fps. Native windows version when?
  5. AlgorosX
    Mar 6, 2023
    0
    Never buy a game from team ninja on release!
    The game has a horrible performance, a lot of bugs and is more EA as some other real EA Games.
    I hope this game will flop so team ninja thinks twice before launching a new game to early...

    I like the Combat aber wih this fps drops - no way!!!!
  6. Nixoid
    Mar 4, 2023
    2
    To hard for me.
    even can't kill first boss.

    but I finished Elden Ring twice.

    also a lot of problems with optimisation and control
  7. jojoboy1997
    Mar 15, 2023
    2
    The game mechanics is high risk very low rewards. every boss spam attack that can kill your char in 2 hit. deflect mean nothing with very aggressive boss you it only make your doom come slower because you only gain spirit from deflect and you can’t use spirit to attack in many boss because boss just spam every move to your char. In ng+ is even worse because boss spirit gauge are regen veryThe game mechanics is high risk very low rewards. every boss spam attack that can kill your char in 2 hit. deflect mean nothing with very aggressive boss you it only make your doom come slower because you only gain spirit from deflect and you can’t use spirit to attack in many boss because boss just spam every move to your char. In ng+ is even worse because boss spirit gauge are regen very fast that you hit them near 20 times with martial art to make boss tire but if you get hit just once your effort is gone. Just play sekiro it much less BS than this Team ninja game.… Expand
  8. draco9384
    Mar 4, 2023
    1
    The game on PC is completely unplayable. Control scheme is jacked up completely with no remapping, game speed is tied to framerate, so if your max framerate is 120 but you drop to 90, you start playing at 75% speed. This is completely abysmal design. Optimization is non-existant. This game is just an absolute pile of trash, and id expect some people to get fired over this embarrassment.
  9. vaknonirke
    Mar 6, 2023
    0
    我歌唱火焰，在我的眼睛周围，他们永远不会害怕，就像敌人奔向太阳
  10. Hagemaru
    Mar 5, 2023
    2
    Mal optimisé. Baisse de frames rate. Freezing. Camera insuportable.
    C'est sur qu'avec une RTX4090 ou une RX7900XT ça passe.
    Tout le monde ne peu pas se payer une config PC monstrueuse comme les "professionnels".
  11. Steyraus
    Mar 5, 2023
    1
    The fact that Team Nija need to ride the coat tails and straight up copy off another studio is bad enough. But the fact they can't made their clones games as good as Fromsoftwares masterpieces is sad beyond words...Team Ninja made Ninja Gaiden , not they are no different to Ubisoft cloneworks.
    Another brutally hard time sink of a game made for people that dont like to go outside or live    The fact that Team Nija need to ride the coat tails and straight up copy off another studio is bad enough. But the fact they can't made their clones games as good as Fromsoftwares masterpieces is sad beyond words...Team Ninja made Ninja Gaiden , not they are no different to Ubisoft cloneworks.
    Another brutally hard time sink of a game made for people that dont like to go outside or live life..The amazing graphics, awsome character design, beutiful open world is gated off to you if you have a life and don't want to spend 15 hours, 45 attemts beating bosses and 100s of hours grinding. Sure the in cellabits will tell you to get good or 'it not dat hard' , but what really means is lock yourself in dark room , hide away from the world and remain involuntarily celebrate just to beat a game and get clout from noone, not even others that play like this.
    Once again Team Ninja has created amazingly fun combat, beutiful and bad arse characters. But none of that matters if you have a life to live or even just other games to play.. At least FromSoftware games are balanced in a way that your always progressing and actually have a chance with bosses. Where in Team Ninja Souls clones you will definitely hit a point where you will have to quit life or quit the game due to gigantic difficulty spikes.    … Expand
  12. Zer0TheHer0
    Mar 5, 2023
    0
    No mouse and keyboard support. This is pathetic. Unacceptable in this time and age.
  13. orhankoroglu
    Mar 4, 2023
    0
    The men did their best to prevent the game from being played.
    I removed it right after the first boss.
    I don't understand what is the purpose of such a ridiculous and pointless and difficult game at the same time.
    Thank god I played with Game pass, otherwise I'd feel sorry for every penny I spent.
    Its map is ridiculous, the Deflect logic is ridiculous.
    My point big zero.
  14. Vilemk0
    Mar 7, 2023
    2
    lol The bots reviewing this game are funny. The issue isn't the average graphics, boring story, or uninspiring janky gameplay, I just can't get over how lazy this port's sound is. There are scenes where the actors are asmr breathing in your ear with no ambience or background sound. Dynasty warriors 3 on playstation 2 had more effort put into the sound than this game. The voice actors soundlol The bots reviewing this game are funny. The issue isn't the average graphics, boring story, or uninspiring janky gameplay, I just can't get over how lazy this port's sound is. There are scenes where the actors are asmr breathing in your ear with no ambience or background sound. Dynasty warriors 3 on playstation 2 had more effort put into the sound than this game. The voice actors sound like they were picked up off the street. The scene transitions look like they hired a random from deviantart and slapped some commentary down rather than using anything remotely close to a creative scene transition. It's a joke.

    Also, the game is confirmed bugged to hell by design. The speed of animations is tied to your FPS causing some enemies to have inconsistent attack speeds.

    Bad ports I can forgive, lazy ports I cannot.    … Expand
  15. Joruto88
    Mar 13, 2023
    2
    The game is badly optimized and full of glitches, stutters and bugs on PC. The balancing is bad, some bosses are pushovers while others are unnecessarily difficult. Most fights are just a waiting game for the enemy to attack, you dodge then attack back. Story, setting and characters are meh. A far cry from Nioh or other Souls games and I don't get the comparison with Sekiro, which is onThe game is badly optimized and full of glitches, stutters and bugs on PC. The balancing is bad, some bosses are pushovers while others are unnecessarily difficult. Most fights are just a waiting game for the enemy to attack, you dodge then attack back. Story, setting and characters are meh. A far cry from Nioh or other Souls games and I don't get the comparison with Sekiro, which is on another level.… Expand
  16. psyGressiw
    Mar 4, 2023
    0
    You're getting ones-hot by simple spearmen making it impossible to complete even with cheats, and even cheating to progress doesn't make any sense. The story sux, the NPC interaction and motivation is beyond abysmal, thanks no. 0/0, don't release your stuff on game pass, sell it to the masochists in darkest dungeons of xxx shops.
  17. Welpppp
    Mar 5, 2023
    0
    They keep trying to imitate Fromsoft and keep falling short. Complex does not always equal good or fun. Voice acting and story are terrible and cringe. Huge performance issues this time too. Wait for big sale to purchase if you really want to try.
  18. StormDeath69
    Mar 6, 2023
    0
    Et encore un jeu non optimisé sur Pc
  19. Fixxa
    Mar 6, 2023
    0
    Нельзя делать такие порты на ПК и выпускать их в релиз.
    Все претензии игроков не относящиеся к производительности настолько очевидны и на поверхности и настолько просто решаются, что закрывать на них глаза до сих пор, спустя столько дней резила - преступно.    Нельзя делать такие порты на ПК и выпускать их в релиз.
    Все претензии игроков не относящиеся к производительности настолько очевидны и на поверхности и настолько просто решаются, что закрывать на них глаза до сих пор, спустя столько дней резила - преступно.
  20. pgjsfm
    Mar 5, 2023
    2
    키보드 마우스 유저들 엿 먹이기
    권장사양 떡치는 사양이어도 크래시는 나야됨
    필드 전투는 엿같지만 보스전은 재밌어서 2점 줌
  21. evaw
    Mar 16, 2023
    0
    Another souls-like trash game, where nerds fap on rating :/
    Overrated trash.
  22. Andryu180
    Mar 11, 2023
    0
    Game run like total **** even on a 4090, there's stutter all over. Do not buy, it's unplayable unless you cap the frame at 30 fps, which is beyond ridiculous
  23. Setarii
    Mar 8, 2023
    0
    Game's parry system is linked to FPS, first boss is way too hard, and the second area is not good. Storyline is non-existent as well. Didn't even play past the middle of the second area because it was too clunky.

    Don't BUY this game.
  24. Wavew
    Mar 5, 2023
    0
    Absoluta basura.

    Sigue la senda de los NIOH, con enemigos que te matan de un golpe y ponen a prueba tu paciencia. Este juego hubiera tenido sentido hace 10 años, hoy en día el injusto ensayo y error no tiene cabida en lo que la gente adulta entiende como diversion. A evitar a toda costa a no ser que seas un desempleado sin familia. Por lo demás, el apartado grafico es mediocre,    Absoluta basura.

    Sigue la senda de los NIOH, con enemigos que te matan de un golpe y ponen a prueba tu paciencia.
    Este juego hubiera tenido sentido hace 10 años, hoy en día el injusto ensayo y error no tiene cabida en lo que la gente adulta entiende como diversion.

    A evitar a toda costa a no ser que seas un desempleado sin familia.

    Por lo demás, el apartado grafico es mediocre, da tirones y se ve cutre y feo. Es técnicamente PEOR que NIOH 2... no tiene sentido ninguno.    … Expand
  25. last_of_us
    Mar 5, 2023
    1
    as a souls fan player
    who finsihed & enjoyed nioh 1 & 2 dark soulls bloodborne sekrio elder ring &...
    i can say this game is full sux :) first it has fps drop even on gtx 1080 but graphic is like nioh 1 2 not more second its unbalaned hard. u see a blacksmit in lvl 2 someting next u must defed a super hard boss in lvl 4 guess & after it again u can meet blacksmite ( if u find her    as a souls fan player
    who finsihed & enjoyed nioh 1 & 2 dark soulls bloodborne sekrio elder ring &...
    i can say this game is full sux :)
    first it has fps drop even on gtx 1080 but graphic is like nioh 1 2 not more
    second its unbalaned hard. u see a blacksmit in lvl 2 someting
    next u must defed a super hard boss in lvl 4 guess
    & after it again u can meet blacksmite ( if u find her on youtube. cuz u wont know she exists )    … Expand
  26. AAEllingsen
    Mar 16, 2023
    0
    This is a game with so bad pc performance it will get a zero.
    From day one it stuttered when enemies attacked, from day one there was white flickering randomly, from day one this game has been in a state that is not fine for a pc version.
    But I had a fix that worked until the devs came with a patch that made my fix not work anymore while at the same time not fixing the issues of    This is a game with so bad pc performance it will get a zero.
    From day one it stuttered when enemies attacked, from day one there was white flickering randomly, from day one this game has been in a state that is not fine for a pc version.
    But I had a fix that worked until the devs came with a patch that made my fix not work anymore while at the same time not fixing the issues of stuttering.
    Good idea releasing a action game that requires timing and have the game perform so poorly that it for many is impossible to time defflections.

    Performance is not the only issue here, as I got to see when my fix for making the game playable still worked, I got to the second last area before the patch "fixed" my performance.
    The moral system, a system that does more harm then good to this game. If you want a challenge and are good the system punish you with making the game easier, if you are bad at the game it punish you by making it harder. This system also undermines the system for leveling.
    The different areas in which missions take place are for the most part ok, some are bad, some are good, and one is so bad it makes me wonder why the devs hate the playerbase.
    Things like the magic and martial arts makes me think that this was either not tested enough or that the devs ignored any and all negative feedback, the cost and risk vs the reward when using them is simply not balanced.

    Still, when the game works as intended the combat is very entertaining.
    If not for the performance issues this would have been a 7 or even 8, but when a game does not work it is a 0.
    Team Ninja, fix your game.    … Expand
  27. LaernuTairo
    Mar 17, 2023
    0
    Rather play wild hearts. Different dev team same company.

    And yea its pretty obvious they paid indos for reviews. Especially Xbox ones where theres only 5 hand written reviews yet 200 ratings. And most of the paid reviews scream how good it is without being able to ever pinpoint why. Spoiler, because they CANT
  28. Jerry4050
    Mar 29, 2023
    4
    I don't know why this team always like to copy other generas back in 2012 they were coping Monster Hunter games since they were popular and I have there game on my PSVita it called Toukiden. Now there trying hard to be like Dark Souls or Sekiro. Thank God I tried this on Game Pass and deleted after the first Boss. The only difference is that you have a blind co op guy with you but his AII don't know why this team always like to copy other generas back in 2012 they were coping Monster Hunter games since they were popular and I have there game on my PSVita it called Toukiden. Now there trying hard to be like Dark Souls or Sekiro. Thank God I tried this on Game Pass and deleted after the first Boss. The only difference is that you have a blind co op guy with you but his AI is so bad to kill these bosses while the Bosses only Agro on you. I hate that every time you check point the enemies respawn like in Bloodborne so I gave up on this game it's very hard and the bigger enemies are not fair. Once you died you loose your "Souls" and you get your revenge back when they respawn so it's a copy cat of Dark Souls so I'm not into it with Ninja Gaiden controls which feels smoother but it isn't better.… Expand
  29. wavegab
    Apr 19, 2023
    0
    Unresponsive and inconsistent button registration. In a world where sekiro exists, this game should receive an automatic 0
  30. normalguycap
    Mar 31, 2023
    3
    character limit is too short. full review on steam.

    Wo Long is a bad game; made by amateurs using the skin of previously good games related to it, to disguise it's significant shortcomings. I've 100%'d it and beyond and played 175 hours. I have everything, I've done everything. I've experimented extensively with everything. Every spell and skill, all weapons and armors and bonuses,    character limit is too short. full review on steam.

    Wo Long is a bad game; made by amateurs using the skin of previously good games related to it, to disguise it's significant shortcomings.

    I've 100%'d it and beyond and played 175 hours. I have everything, I've done everything. I've experimented extensively with everything. Every spell and skill, all weapons and armors and bonuses, in every mode. I'm the only one I know of who has no-hit the bosses on NG+ legit no cheese and have the final title that comes with that accomplishment. I probably played the game much more than the devs have.

    This game is a lesson in paying attention to the credits to discover who was working on the game and who was not. Since it was made by Team Ninja with significant visual Nioh influence, I figured it would be good. I was significantly disappointed. It seems most of the Nioh team did not work on this game. This feels like the C or D team made Wo Long. This is the director's first title and it massively shows. I feel lied to and taken advantage of. This game is a hollow shell of a real game. It is without substance. The core components are there but this feels like a rushed demo than a real game. Perhaps this was a tech demo game in the same vein as Chaos Legion was for Devil May Cry on the PS2.

    But they did release an actual demo and that is to be commended as demos are a lost action in the games' industry and so incredibly important. I'm very appreciative to the company for that integrity move.

    But I digress, Wo Long is a watered down, aka "streamlined", action game in the vein of Nioh/Ninja Gaiden/Sekiro/and maybe a little Metal Gear Rising Revengeance set in the Three Kingdoms period of ancient China.

    However, the characters and events are there in name only. They are tangential, cursory, barely recognizable and hardly significant. It's a poor excuse of a backdrop to rehash the template of Nioh. Amrita is now Elixir, the MacGuffin of this nonsense. Kelly is now Yu Ji and the protagonist is chasing him for what was stolen just like William did. There are one or two good twists I'll give them that, but one important character relationship is a near direct copy of Otakamaru and Suzuka from Nioh 2. Yuan Shao honestly complains about bonds and laments the power of friendship. It's enough to make you puke with how trite and stupid it is.

    If a computer AI spat out this "story", I would not be surprised at all. Nothing has any impact despite the attempts to. The last stage is a revisit to the first stage, but the character you are supposed to have a bond with only appeared in those two stages and the game acts like it's an epic encounter. No, because obviously we spent zero time with the character we were supposed to care about. It has all the trappings of emotional build up and investment (the music, the stage revisit after time passed, the atmosphere) but falls embarrassingly flat and for obvious reasons that I can't believe they actually tried to pass off. Again, if a computer was programmed to spit this out, I would not be surprised. Beep Boop. Input emotion here. Are you invested? I'm playing the music! Remember this!? Please clap. Hell, they even did something like this in Nioh 2 and it was fairly decent, so AGAIN, with so much taken from Nioh, how did they mess up so bad?

    It's a stolen template without any soul.

    The English voices are terrible but since characters talk while fighting, I kept it in English so I could hear them because gameplay is too intense to read text while in combat, which is always a dumb thing to do in any game. I'm engaged with the combat, why are you having characters talk in the very instance I physically can't pay attention to it. However, the Chinese and Japanese voices seem fine.

    The non-player character designs are not good. Unlike Nioh, it was not gratifying to see famous figures from this legendary setting. Almost no one stood out and I was not excited to see them. This is a great shame because one of the best things about Nioh which took place in Sengoku Japan was wondering whom would surprise you around the corner. And then actually having cool encounters! It was exciting and satisfying. Not so here.

    Even the music is rather bad. Maybe one or two good tracks in the game and I think one or two were taken from Nioh. But the main problem is how much is reused. Too many main levels reuse the same track (snow level and rainy level for example). It makes the game feel cheap and shallow.

    But I will say the game looks good. The effects look good, the sounds are good (when they aren't glitchy -- I had dialogue vanish from a cutscene, return for the next, and vanish again for the following one, except for the nameless grunt soldiers for some inexplicable reason) but it's all in service of bland level design. The game gives you distant vistas in some levels and they look like they are from the PS2 or 3 era. The levels are so boring and uncreative. And t    … Expand
  31. Phpower
    Apr 6, 2023
    1
    cuti muito ninjagaiden,eu amei nioh ,agora esses imbecis me fazem esse lixo, game tem historia chata , mecanica bosta,uma esquiva lixo, japonese estao se tornando imbecis e cada vez fazendo jogo bosta!
  32. MoBo_
    Mar 18, 2023
    0
    The game on PC is completely unplayable. The control scheme is completely screwed up with no remapping, the game speed is locked to the frame rate, so if your max frame rate is 120 but you drop to 90, you start playing at 75%. This is an absolutely disgusting design. There is no optimization. This game is just an absolute pile of garbage and I expect some people to get fired because ofThe game on PC is completely unplayable. The control scheme is completely screwed up with no remapping, the game speed is locked to the frame rate, so if your max frame rate is 120 but you drop to 90, you start playing at 75%. This is an absolutely disgusting design. There is no optimization. This game is just an absolute pile of garbage and I expect some people to get fired because of this embarrassment.… Expand
  33. bokarsh-z
    Apr 3, 2023
    0
    (7/10) hhhh those sheep souls salty lovers even u give this overrated game 7 will attack u
    =========
    -only worth 50$
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    - 25 - 35 hour long.

    -very repetitive fun gameplay, unoptimized, little enemy variety for souls games.

    -only very challenging 1st boss and lu bu.

    -good amount of bosses, cute baby pandas and like sekiro gameplay.

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Impulsegamer
    Feb 26, 2024
    80
    The performance issues from launch seem to be largely gone, making Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – Complete Edition a much more attractive proposition than perhaps it previously was.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 4, 2023
    62
    The name of the game is “parry”. Whatever the problem is, a well-timed parry will save the day. But if you can’t handle parrying mechanic, you’ll lose, no matter what tactics you use and what your equipment is. [page 52]
  3. KeenGamer
    Mar 27, 2023
    85
    Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is another solid entry from Team Ninja and is a good option for you that wants to try the Soulslike genre for the first time. Deflection/Parry and the Morale System are the two main mechanics in this game, and Team Ninja manages to implement them incredibly well while making them seamless with other aspects in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.
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