Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

I've been murdered by Zhang Liang about five times now. It's, as always, one part lack of skill and one part lack of patience. But do you have any suggested strategies? 

The big thing is getting the parry timings down, but remember that you can just hold down the block button while trying to parry his normal strings. Makes the whole thing much lower stress.

The second stage is much, much easier than the first. Didn't die once.

Found it. Really irritating level design.

Thee levels seem pretty linear but with a lot of dead ends with treasure and flags. Looks like there will be some backtracking, too. I found a bit that won’t let you through because you’re too under levelled.

It do like it a lot and they have fixed some of the jank from the first one. I would like you to be able to assign skills, spells and whatnot to the d-pad shortcuts. It took me ages to work out how to just throw a stone.

And, yeah, he second area is much easier than the first. Odd they front loaded a harder boss. I almost managed to do the last one on my first go without getting hit (there’s a big flail in the middle that’s supposed to be a healing spell and I pressed the wrong triggers. That’s going to get annoying)

Having beat the first demo, the first boss wasn't too bad for me when I clocked on to just go full on the offensive. Helps that they extended the parry window quite a bit. Second level I had more difficulty with one of the mid game bosses than the boar, did it on first attempt. If I had any advice I'd say hitting R1 + the parry button at the right time also acts as a parry while being an immediate weapon swap and an attack all in one. Keeps the attack strings flowing. You can also parry any environmental hazard like a falling log.

It’s really good. It’s going to get super deep when you, I assume, start infusing special moves and whatnot onto weapons.

I really want to get this for the PS5 but ‘free’ is hard to pass up. Anyone playing it on a series s?

It's fine, looks pretty soft at times, but overall runs well. Much better than on PC for sure.

It really could do with a slightly wider fov, hoping flawless wide-screen adds one for the pc version. Also the performance on series X isn't amazing and the fades to black are really jarring. Hoping there is a little bit more polish when it comes to launch.

That first boss is an absolute bastard compared to the 2 after him, I got them in 2 and 4 tries but he took me ages. The 3rd boss would benefit from a wider fov though as it all feels a bit too close when fighting him.

Combat is great though and as with nioh it's more fun doing the levels than fighting the bosses.

Used flawless wide-screen on atomic heart and it makes such a huge difference so hopefully someone will add it to this. Only shame is my stuff won't carry over from completing the demo on Xbox if I play on pc.

Oh brilliant, thanks for that.

Just to add to this, played through the latest demo on Series S this morning in performance mode. Seems decent enough, and I'm usually a stickler for that sort of thing.

Certainly good enough to avoid spunking £55 if you don't have to.

Shit. Had a quick look at the demo earlier. That may have been a mistake. Suddenly remembered just why I love nioh so much.

So I played up to the first boss and had a couple of wings at him before uninstalling it. Played enough of it to know I need it. As I suspected it just feel so lovely to play and is basically Nioh 3 in a different setting. Not sure why my brain wasn't working when I played the first demo as the spirit gauge clicked with me this time and I get it now, as well as the Nioh muscle memory kicking in.

Thought I wasn't in the mood for this type of game. Turns out I very much am. It's going on the birthday list for a couple of weeks time. It really is glorious.