Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty sounds like a no-brainer for Nioh fans

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Even with minimal details, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty — a new Team Ninja romp coming in hot off the Nioh series — was probably my favorite game announcement at the jam-packed Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. It’s an action-infused dark-fantasy take on the Three Kingdoms with demons to take out and a masocore challenge to overcome.

There are still a lot of gameplay specifics to fill in, but coming off of the weekend’s big Xbox showing, we now know that the game is making the full rounds on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in early 2023. Team Ninja also shared more information about Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty in an interview with IGN — and it sounds really promising.

“Making it a challenging game was something we had decided from the beginning,” according to Wo Long producer Fumihiko Yasuda, who’s returning from Nioh 1 and 2.

“With all the legendary heroes of the Three Kingdoms period, it can come across as somewhat campy, but in reality, it was a time of war and devastation,” he said. “It was a dark period in which people were constantly fighting, which is a great match for a Soulslike game. Being set in China, Wo Long is more massive in scale compared to our previous games set in Japan, which allowed us to show a more severe and dark world. The same can be said for the difficulty. There’s no doubt this will be an extremely challenging and demanding game, but we’ve come up with new ways to approach that difficulty.”

“We wanted flowing combat in which you seamlessly switch between offense and defense,” Yasuda continued. “The action is speedier than Nioh, and you can do things such as jump into an enemy and then launch over them.” Level layouts are still linear in Wo Long like Nioh before it, but “there’s a lot more