Game News Wo-Long Fallen Dynasty: no, it’s not a Nioh 3 in disguise! A game that thinks even bigger
Published on 09/12/2022 at 21:34
Wo-Long Fallen Dynasty is definitely one of the games to watch very closely: it is developed by Team Ninja, the studio behind the two Niohs, and its adventure looks frankly promising. The opportunity for the studio to take stock of the very nature of the game.
A Nioh 3, Chinese sauce?
Announced with great fanfare during Xbox’s Summer Game Fest 2022 conference, make no mistake about the very nature of Wo-Long Fallen Dynasty : no, it’s not an Xbox exclusive (it’s also planned for PlayStation) and no, it’s not Nioh 3. Well, not really. Our colleagues from game blog were able to speak with Masaaki Yamagiwaone of the producers of the famous Bloodborne fromSoftware recently landed at Team Ninja, to work on Wo-Long.
He first returned to the very conception of the title, which, let us remember, will interfere in Chinese mythology:
(…) We quickly thought of China, the history of the Three Kingdoms, history in general and the gigantism of this country, the varied landscapes it offers. The more time passed, the more seriously we thought about this possibility, until we got to the point where we decided to see further, and make this idea a whole new game with its own identity.
Basically, Wo-Long was therefore well on its way to being a new Nioh… except that the two franchises now share real differences.
A spot-on atmosphere and gameplay
When the question “Is Wo-Long Nioh 3?” occurs, Yamagiwa does not hesitate to answer in the negative.
So no, it’s a new franchise and a new game, which is its own “thing”. Here, China is used as a backdrop. With an overlay of dark fantasy. We will use real Chinese locations, and focus on the history of China, and the game will have its own atmosphere. It’s not Nioh 3!
The developer then continues with the gameplay differences that reside between the two licenses.
Wo Long will be different from Nioh on a lot of points. It’s not just a change of scenery and story, and in the end the two games are really very different! For example, here we will be able to jump, and there is no endurance gauge system! Where Nioh had you play as a samurai and built on that idea, there Chinese martial arts pushed us to create something new.
The game will be faster, more nervous, offensive and defensive movements are also important, and in terms of combat, we can really say that the two titles will be very different. And of course, the design will also be different and the levels will be bigger.
In short, a production that has its own ambitions, which are also to be watched carefully until the release in 2023. It will also be in the Xbox Game Pass from the day of its arrival.