This game feels similar to Ninja Gaiden, which I have not seen anybody mention!

Which is great, because Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 were underrated amazing games.

The stealth kills and finisher moves, the bow, the double jump flip, the impossibly spectacular mobility of offensive combat maneuvers, and upwards wall running (sadly no sideways wall running in Wo Long, nor dismemberment) all of it feels like Ninja Gaiden.

While the XY combos in Wo Long are a step below Dynasty Warriors - and not awesome to the degree of Ninja Gaiden with the delay, charge, and directional XY combos and mixups - Wo Long makes up for it with 19 melee weapon types (with DLC), 3 randomly generated and later customizable skills per melee weapon - with 2 melee weapons equipped (6 skills per weapon in NG++ with the DLC), fluid weapon swapping in combos, 8 simultaneous spells equipped with dozens to choose from, divine beasts, and more.

No grab button - instead here we have a dedicated deflect / dash / dodge button. Which feels fantastic and cinematic - although you can still guard, jump, dodge roll, and utilize mobile offensive skills - deflect is not the only defensive option here.

It has some rpg elements akin to Dark Souls and Nioh and Diablo 3 - free respecs and 50 slots for saved loadouts with totally different builds you can swap between.

With a unique “inverted stamina bar” which lets you use more skills and spells the more you land attacks and avoid enemy attacks.

Spells don’t have limited resources or cooldowns to cast, it’s tied into the “inverted stamina bar” and I think that’s pretty fun.

Character, gear crafting customization and transmogrification is great too.

Replay value is excellent - getting more weapon skills NG++ (with the DLC), extra hidden spells and gear stats in NG+ (with DLC), along with remixes of enemies and levels.

There’s optional co-op, pvp invasions ala Dark Souls that you can completely disable if you want, plus you can bring 2 NPC’s with instead of real players for most missions to make the game a bit easier and to unlock their equipment faster.

The only thing I don’t really care for is the story, but the same goes Ninja Gaiden too! Doesn’t matter when the combat is this fun.

The game currently has mixed score and I don't think it is entirely justified.

Mainly, a lot people seem to think that the game is a downgrade from Nioh 2 in terms of build variety and such. However, this is not a Nioh game and it has no obligation to be like.
If anything, the game isn't distancing itself far enough from the Nioh titles. For example, the game has Nioh style "equipment deluge" despite the fact that builds seem to matter much less in this game.

Besides all that, Wo Long is pretty solid action game. Sure at times it feels like "Sekiro at Home, but the game is quite competent enough and it certainly has its moments. I especially found the boss battle against Lu Bu to be a real highlight.

Is good game, though a tad too easy on NG.

The game overall has been quite enjoyable. The overarching story is a fictional take on a part of the Three Kingdoms era/novel/etc.
Gameplay: I appreciated the variety of weapons in the game, and the unique movesets of various types, as well as the long list of weapon arts.
At around 46h on the clock, I managed to 100% all Steam achievements, however, there are no achievements related to New Game + and onwards. Equipment quality and max level do increase in ng+ and more.
Difficulty wise, at least for the first 2 playthroughs, is quite easy (compared to any game in the souls series). Dodging and riposting are very important, but the i-frames are very forgiving. There have been maybe 2 boss fights where I needed more than 10 attempts, everything else was mostly 1-3 attempts, 1 being the majority.
DLC. Timing of the story is a bit weird. There are a few new monster types, new characters, and a new mechanic for building another layer to your character, stratagems (which require finishing DLC 3 - Upheaval in Jingxiang).
There are lots of spells that get unlocked over time as the character stats are increased. However, at least in the first run of the game, I rarely needed to use any spell, with the expection of a particular one which recharges the "ultimate" ability a bit faster. I'm not sure if it was due to my equipment being mele focused, but most offensive spells I tried barely did any damage.
Graphics: probably the one aspect of the game that I thought should be better. Somehow the quality makes me think of a game that's about 5 years older than it actually is.
One annoyance was the inventory. You have to remember to clean it up after every few battlefields. There is a limit of how many items can be carried. This requires either salvaging at the blacksmith, selling at any flag, or transferring into storage at the blacksmith anything that you want to keep around for later.

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kicks asss