Followers of the Soulslike motion RPG Wuchang: Fallen Feathers are flocking to Steam to go away destructive opinions owing to what seems to be an try at censoring a few of the recreation’s content material in its newest replace.
As famous by none apart from Soulslike aficionado and Bloodborne modder Lance McDonald on social media (through Home windows Central), Replace 1.5, which was launched not too long ago, adjustments the sport in order that it is unattainable to “kill any traditionally important bosses or NPCs”.
As a substitute, in accordance with McDonald, these enemies and managers merely “get ‘exhausted’ and chill out after the struggle and speak to you”. It additionally appears as if a Pray emote, taught to the participant by a Portuguese Christian missionary throughout the course of the sport, has been eliminated.
In keeping with McDonald, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ fourth chapter is now “insanely straightforward” as a result of half of the chapter’s enemies will now not assault you, and you can also’t assault them, so an unlimited portion of that chapter’s problem has been eliminated.
Not solely that, however the recreation’s protagonist now additionally apparently pledges to “proceed [the] legacy” of bosses she defeats, which, as McDonald notes, “actually wreck[s] your entire level of the sport’s plot about impermanence”.
There are a lot of extra examples of those sorts of adjustments all through McDonald’s social media thread, and I might advocate studying it if you wish to know what’s completely different after the replace.
The official patch notes themselves do not actually make reference to those adjustments, both; there is a temporary word about including “dialogs for some NPCs to finish some plots” and “additional optimiz[ing] the exhaustion animations sooner or later to enhance the plot efficiency”, however nothing concrete.
For sure, these adjustments have not precisely thrilled Steam customers, with many leaving destructive opinions decrying Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ “sudden” plot adjustments, “censorship”, and makes an attempt to appease “whiny Chinese language nationalists”.
Paradoxically, these complaints now seem to have overtaken the very “nationalist” ire the replace was seemingly supposed to handle. Whether or not or not Leenzee will make additional adjustments stays to be seen, but it surely does appear as if Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has been considerably modified via Replace 1.5.
At any charge, if you would like to take a look at the sport, you are able to do so proper now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X|S, and it is also accessible as a Sport Cross title. You’ll be able to learn our evaluation of the sport (pre-update 1.5, after all) proper right here.
