Followers of the Soulslike motion RPG Wuchang: Fallen Feathers are flocking to Steam to go away damaging opinions owing to what seems to be an try at censoring a few of the sport’s content material in its newest replace.
As famous by none aside from Soulslike aficionado and Bloodborne modder Lance McDonald on social media (through Home windows Central), Replace 1.5, which was launched just lately, modifications the sport in order that it is not possible to “kill any traditionally vital bosses or NPCs”.
As an alternative, in line with McDonald, these enemies and managers merely “get ‘exhausted’ and loosen up after the combat and speak to you”. It additionally appears as if a Pray emote, taught to the participant by a Portuguese Christian missionary through the course of the sport, has been eliminated.
In response to 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 enormous portion of that chapter’s problem has been eliminated.
Not solely that, however the sport’s protagonist now additionally apparently pledges to “proceed [the] legacy” of bosses she defeats, which, as McDonald notes, “actually spoil[s] the complete level of the sport’s plot about impermanence”.
There are various extra examples of those sorts of modifications all through McDonald’s social media thread, and I would suggest 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 modifications, 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.
Evidently, these modifications have not precisely thrilled Steam customers, with many leaving damaging opinions decrying Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ “sudden” plot modifications, “censorship”, and makes an attempt to appease “whiny Chinese language nationalists”.
Satirically, these complaints now seem to have overtaken the very “nationalist” ire the replace was seemingly supposed to deal with. Whether or not or not Leenzee will make additional modifications stays to be seen, but it surely does appear as if Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has been considerably modified via Replace 1.5.
At any fee, 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 Collection X|S, and it is also obtainable as a Sport Go title. You’ll be able to learn our evaluate of the sport (pre-update 1.5, in fact) proper right here.
