Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is a historical fantasy action role-playing video game developed by Team Ninja and published by Koei Tecmo.
Set during a fictionalised version of the fall of the Han Dynasty, the plot follows an unnamed protagonist who battles historical characters and Chinese mythological creatures corrupted by demonic qi.
While looks pretty good on Switch 2, and delivers its own flavor of combat-centric play with loads of options in how you develop your own style, it doesn’t feel as satisfyingly complete as some of its peers
Wu Long: Fallen Dynasty could well be worth investigating on other hardware thanks to its strong parry-based combat. Yet despite the Switch 2 being more than capable of running game's of this ilk adequately, this is currently a mess on Nintendo's console.Regardless of which performance mode you go for, you're going to run into frame rate issues, while...
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is an engrossing, dense, and hard-fought slog, but nevertheless a slog weighed down by some heavy recycling and inconsistent difficulty.
A disappointing follow-up to Nioh, that has most of its same qualities but, unfortunately, almost exactly the same flaws; with two few new ideas to make up for the lack of advancement.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is a fast, focused, and compelling game that is sure to challenge fans of soulslikes, but it does feel uneven at times.
