I am having a really tough time deciding whether I like this game or not (despite completing NG+ and getting all the achievements), this review might change when the I play all the DLCs that will be released for this game.

Wo Long is a combination of Team Ninja's Nioh and FromSoft's Sekiro. Being a huge fan of both these games, I have a lot to say about this game. Let's start with the things I like. Wo Long has the fast paced action of both the games it draws inspiration from, tight deflect timings and really nice boss designs and enemies. The level design is great, building on the same ideas from Nioh 2. There is a lot of variety of equipment options with the slasher looter play style giving you some freedom to use what you like and the character designer is just as versatile. Kind of a bland list of stuff really, derived from their older games.

Now the things which I don't like, the lack of skills, the single best part of Nioh, it kind of ruined it for me. Fixing the number of combat arts to two and making them random on weapons. Their attempt to replace skills with spells didn't work for me and since you can't choose specific skills for weapons, it killed build variety for me. Yeah, you can spec into a specific element for the spells and their passive effects but it kind of all melts together, you end up running the same kind of spells, a big AOE one, a smaller single target spell and a couple of buffs.

And then there are the technical and quality of life issues the game launched with it, these have mostly been resolved with patches since launch but certain things don't make sense, things that could have clearly been available from the beginning, the ability to compare equipment, the option to travel to different missions after completing the main mission and the dojo to try out stuff (which still isn't there). It makes me think the game absolutely wasn't complete for launch.

Like I said, most of these issues have been patched with some much needed loot and enemy balancing but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I sincerely hope the DLCs resolve these kind of things. I also wonder if this is how the Playstation folks felt when Nioh 1 and 2 launched since we PC players got the complete version with mostly all updates applied.

I will just conclude by saying what I said before, Wo Long is a combination of Team Ninja's Nioh and FromSoft's Sekiro but it has fallen short of both these games. It doesn't have Sekiro's hyper focused combat and fantastic story nor does it have Nioh's excellent skill trees and build variety. I am a fan of Team Ninja, I haven't lost hope that Wo Long will be an excellent game but so far I am disappointed.

I am having a really tough time deciding whether I like this game or not (despite completing NG+ and getting all the achievements), this review might change when the I play all the DLCs that will be released for this game. Wo Long is a combination of Team Ninja's Nioh and FromSoft's Sekiro. Being a huge fan of both these games, I have a lot to say about this game. Let's start with the things I like. Wo Long has the fast paced action of both the games it draws inspiration from, tight deflect timings and really nice boss designs and enemies. The level design is great, building on the same ideas from Nioh 2. There is a lot of variety of equipment options with the slasher looter play style giving you some freedom to use what you like and the character designer is just as versatile. Kind of a bland list of stuff really, derived from their older games. Now the things which I don't like, the lack of skills, the single best part of Nioh, it kind of ruined it for me. Fixing the number of combat arts to two and making them random on weapons. Their attempt to replace skills with spells didn't work for me and since you can't choose specific skills for weapons, it killed build variety for me. Yeah, you can spec into a specific element for the spells and their passive effects but it kind of all melts together, you end up running the same kind of spells, a big AOE one, a smaller single target spell and a couple of buffs. And then there are the technical and quality of life issues the game launched with it, these have mostly been resolved with patches since launch but certain things don't make sense, things that could have clearly been available from the beginning, the ability to compare equipment, the option to travel to different missions after completing the main mission and the dojo to try out stuff (which still isn't there). It makes me think the game absolutely wasn't complete for launch. Like I said, most of these issues have been patched with some much needed loot and enemy balancing but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I sincerely hope the DLCs resolve these kind of things. I also wonder if this is how the Playstation folks felt when Nioh 1 and 2 launched since we PC players got the complete version with mostly all updates applied. I will just conclude by saying what I said before, Wo Long is a combination of Team Ninja's Nioh and FromSoft's Sekiro but it has fallen short of both these games. It doesn't have Sekiro's hyper focused combat and fantastic story nor does it have Nioh's excellent skill trees and build variety. I am a fan of Team Ninja, I haven't lost hope that Wo Long will be an excellent game but so far I am disappointed.