Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

Its a game of two halves, Brian. The first phase you can just wail on him as your attacks interrupt all his moves bar the red flashy ones. Second phase, keep in the middle distance and, yeah, you have to work out the parry timings on the red and non red charge moves. I wouldnt get close anyway as you dont seem to be able to stagger him with normal moves.

The aim of the bosses is to, basically, parry them and hit them with magic/weapon arts until their bar gets all the way left and you can grapple them, so if you hit a parry, try to hold the trigger and do a special on him which does a lot of bar damage.

Morale basically just indicates enemy strength. It builds up when you beat enemies, perform surprise attacks, block those big red flashy moves. If an enemy kills you, you lose Morale and half your Qi. You can reclaim it by beating the same enemy, but the enemy also has an increased morale level so there's a little bit of added difficulty.

If you look at your wizard spells, the Morale level is listed beside each spell, it's the number in a circle, similar to how morale level looks on the UI

Exactly, flags raise the fortitude rank so you can never say be at morale rank 1 at the end of a level. Though would be interesting to try thinking about it, if you just try and beat a level without raising flags. It's not impossible, I imagine the game will prob add it as a challenge.

I suspect its relative, right? Like if you grind to be OP, you will be just as op against a level 1 enemy as a level 20 enemy if you work through the game methodically, same if youre under levelled, you will be equally underlevelled against everyone.

Like I say, to me it looks like its just to stop you running through the level but presumably at some point youre going to be sufficiently buff for it not to matter.

I’m guessing bosses will cap out at whatever the maximum fortitude level is that you get from flags? Otherwise it’s going to be a massive pain in the arse if you have to go back and grind through some of the level to raise your morale back up again each time you die, but then have that option if you want to get a bit of an advantage.

Plus I noticed that the two phase boss killed me then went up a level to 11, yet after he killed me again he seemed to be back down to level 10. Which I didn't get.

Think bosses operate somewhat differently. If you die you'll see the morale go up, bit if you make it back to the boss stage and start the fight, you'll immediately reclaim the morale you lost. Wouldnt make sense to have to beat it to get it back like you do for normal enemies, plus doesn't make it too unfair to the player as bosses should be the biggest challenge

Yeah, my ass temps are very cranked for this.

Yeah, I’m looking forward to the first 10hrs or so before it all becomes far too difficult and I give up in a huff.

As it’s on GP it should be available Thursday, too.

The swing-o-meter or whatever its called also makes a difference. Im glad they got rid of stamina and this momentum gauge really encourages you to keep your foot on the gas. If youre all the way to the right, your triangle move is powered up and whatnot.

It's all the mythology shit I'm looking forward to. I loved all the Yokai in Nioh 1&2.

Yeah I thought the same with nioh. I feel like I should have paid more attention to the historical stuff but... Yokai.

I am in NG+++ somewhere in Nioh 2, and I don't have the foggiest idea about the story.

For me it's the combat, randomised loot and min-maxing. It's like a Souls game fused with Diablo.

Think I stopped Nioh 2 somewhere in NG++. I not only still didn't have a clue about the story, but no idea about what I was doing with my gear! Just ended up sticking with the same build the entire time (onmyo / switchglaive), but I loved it.