Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

I get the feeling that if you played this in a years time it would be a pretty different game, similar to Nioh 2. There are a load of QoL stuff they gradually introduced thats just flat out missing and some stuff does need balancing/changing.

Ive played most of the levels without any arrows because you just dont find them out in the wild and I keep forgetting to restock them. You should also be able to sacrifice gear for karma still. Throwables should be bound to d-pad and just hoyed at the enemy youre locked onto and so on and so forth.

I think they got a lot of 'its just too complicated' feedback from Nioh and went a bit far addressing that. Its great and I am enjoying it, its just that, yeah, it feels like its a few patches/DLC drops from greatness which is disappointing considering how they pretty much perfected Nioh 2 by the end.

I love it as well, but I agree with you, wunty, that it does often feel like a Nioh precursor.

And when they said they'd tone down the loot, they seem to have meant the variety, not the quantity. I like my loot, I really do, but finding the 15th identical sword in a huge treasure chest is a bit much even for me.

Ive kind of made peace that I probably have my end game set up already, unless one of the gifted armour sets is decent, and am largely just ignoring/trashing all the gear that I collect.

Any better armour makes me fat and any lighter armour makes me too squishy and I have a plain old iron sword and a pokey stick that scale with fire.

All that said, I do intend to engage with the infinite respec thing once I start collecting decent gear. Its nice to be able to re-roll your stats at will, I just dont have the mats to then spec up the armour and weapons at the moment.

I doubt it! The idea of beating a boss first time is laughable to me. I know occasionally Soulsborne games will chuck something a bit softer at you, and in Elden Ring you could end up overlevelled for certain field bosses, but I can still count the number of times I've beaten bosses first time on the fingers of one hand.

To be fair, I do love a good challenging boss where it goes from being a brick wall to inching your way to success, attempt after attempt. Hino-Enma in Nioh is a good example of that.

My approach to bosses in Wo Long, though, is still a bit chaotic to be honest. 

This part annoys me more than you'd expect, for exactly the same reasons. A lot more games should have model viewers, honestly, such great designs that you can't properly appreciate half the time because you're running for your life...

It's been a bit less than a year and I still can't believe I did Malenia first try, OP setup or not. Will probably stay the highest point of my Soulsborne career for quite a while.

Then again, beating so many bosses with the power of jazz bubbles is up there as well, although for rather different reasons

Utter madness and as you say hard to top!   I did manage to farm a large envoy horn in the Haligtree, still haven't used it in NG+

Did a fairly long mission (can't remember which), got to the boss and the game hard-crashed on my Xbox and booted my back to the Home screen. Completely wiped all progress of the mission and the levelling up I'd done in the mission.

Quite bizarre and a bit frustrating as I would've thought it'd auto-save a bit more often - I was on the mission for a good 40mins.

All the side missions I’ve done so far just ended when you complete the objective, yeah.

I'm glad you said that actually as I wondered if that's what the case was or not. I was too scared to try it in case it undid all my progress on a particular battlefield.

What the guys above me have said - sometimes it's a fairly inoccuous looking enemy who's actually the 'boss' of the sub-mission.

Just finished the main mission with the purple goo draining your spirit. Liking it more and more as I go. It's got rid of most of the pointless stuff from nioh games and made it more like the best souls game ever sekiro. Love how I can beat bosses like mad cow by just standing still and deflecting. My lightening buff on my sword seems pretty wild as well now I've added gems to my armour and sword to buff lightening attacks. 

Edit. Is there any use for block?? I haven't pressed the button to block yet. I'm assuming your spirit will drain if you just block things? 

Nice I'll use that for stealth.

Yeah I use it most for stealth or when I'm coming up against something new and I'm afraid I'll fuck my deflection up.