Step into the plague-ridden land of Shu with Wuchang Fallen Feathers, a hauntingly intricate soulslike that demands precision, patience, and poetic brutality. This in-depth exploration of Bai Wuchang’s cursed journey unfurls amidst decaying temples, spectral foes, and a mysterious illness that twists flesh into feathers. With every dodge, parry, and spellcast, the game beckons you deeper into its myth-soaked world, where history and horror collide, and your choices carve the path to salvation or ruin.

Wuchang Fallen Feathers Review Pros

• Beautiful graphics. 
• Download size. 
• Platinum trophy. 
• PlayStation 5 Pro enhanced. 
• Chinese or English voice choice. 
• HDR support. 
• Graphics settings – performance mode – balanced, prioritise graphics, prioritise FPS. Motion blur, lock FPS, depth of field brightness slider, and sharpening. 
• Camera settings – camera mode on lock on, camera speed, reset camera, and Invert axis and sensitivity slider. 
• You can remap the controls. 
• Game settings – pause during tutorial pop-ups, tutorials, vibration, auto switch targets, got, HUD, button hints, subtitles, HUD auto hide duration, and interface size slider. 
• Souls like action gameplay. 
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play. 
• A full, glorious 3D game world, and you have 360-degree camera control. 
• Third-person view. 
• In-game cutscenes and character interactions. 
• Powerful and impactful soundtrack. 
• Excellent voice work throughout. 
• The combat is Souls-like in that you learn patterns, but it also has its own magic. Shimmer is earned by dodging last-second enemy attacks, and doing so creates a stack of Skyborn might that empowers your attacks and weapon skills. In short, dodge well and get stronger attacks. 
• Red Mercury is the currency that drops from enemies. 
• Dying has you dropping any red mercury accrued from your madness, and you have one life to reclaim it before it goes away forever. 
• Two perspectives to play with – standoff, which is focused on action and classic, which is more for quick reactions. You can and should change between them in the menu to try them out. 
• Attacks and weapon skills allow you to do special attacks, but also do unique combos. 
• Stamina-based system for attacks and blocking. 
• Play how you want. 
• The world is big enough that you can go off and explore it. 
• Dualsense speaker is used for the shimmer validation and other little elements that I won’t spoil. 
• Worship at altars with your blood to activate them as respawn points. 
• All weapons are unique, not just stat-wise but also attack-wise, and in how they deflect and block enemy attacks. 
• Character load out – main weapon, then four armour slots (head, chest, braces, and leg), three pendant slots, four spell slots, and four item slots for quick access menu on the d pad. 
• You can do brutal finishers and execution style moves in the enemy. 
• I personally like how you can lock onto anyone, and it will instantly show a red bar for an enemy and nothing for a friendly. 
• Swift draw is a crazy attack where you can use two weapons within the same attack combo. It looks incredible, feels incredible, but needs the Skyborn might to use. 
• Use Altars of worship to not only trigger a checkpoint, but you can also refine red mercury to raise your level and increase your stats and then earn red mercury essence, which is then used for new abilities in the Impetus repository. Don’t worry, it sounds way more complicated than it is. 
• The dream is where you enter upon choice to advance the story, refill your health and respawn all enemies you previously killed. 
• Open fast travel points with the Alters and teleport between them. 
• Warehouse is the menu where you can store and take out any items and gear you put in, and is accessible from the alter menu and you never lose this stuff. 
• The skill/upgrade tree is huge and allows so much customisation and player creations. 
• Unlock shortcuts in the world. 
• Don’t panic, you can indeed slide down ladders. 
• Plunging attacks are in the game. (these are where you lock into an enemy from a great height and slam down on them with your weapon) 
• The gore, whilst gross, is well implemented and goes all over the place and remember, you can turn it off. 
• Many Breakable objects. 
• I love the creature and character designs. 
• Benediction is a mechanic in three types and each has their own slot- Oath, Wisdom, and Memory. At Altars, you can remove them from the weapons you socket them into from the menu. Benediction will add a buff or upgrade to your weapon. 
• Big, massive boss encounters. 
• Equip items to your quick access menu on the d-pad. 
• You can have two weapons equipped at one time, and it’s a d pad button press to swap. 
• Red feathers are rarer items to find in-game, and these are used in combination with Red Mercury on your skill tree for huge unlock rewards. 
• You can batch use items, which is handy for the Red Mercury items. 
• Enemies can randomly drop items. 
• Inner demon – killing humans and dying increases your madness, and killing feathered beings lowers it.
• Demojs can actually spawn and carry your red mercury you dropped if you die when at full madness. Cool mechanic, but man, it kicks your ass. 
• Invoke is a mechanic where you can trade increased madness build-up for a rare item at an Alter. 
• Temper is where you can insert different bone and stone needles to unlock hidden weapon abilities. 
• Obtain the bone whistle to summon AI-controlled players to help you. 
• With armour, you can equip sets to get more buffs. 
• Unlock vendors who will buy and sell items and gear. 
• I really appreciate the openness of the world as I’m stuck on a pre determined route and I can find my own way around and maybe so things in a different order. 
• At any time, you can reallocate your skill tree points and even decide how much of the tree you reallocate. 
• Each weapon handles and plays so differently that it pays to try all weapons out. 

Wuchang Fallen Feathers Review Cons

• Not a lot in terms of accessibility options. 
• No Colourblind support. 
• When you are on a base PlayStation 5 with unlocked frame rate the game performs badly, a lot of screen tearing and juddering. I made it smoother by locking the FPS. 
• Learning curve for the combat and the fact that at least early in, you don’t really block attacks, you dodge them but this is dependent on the weapon. 
• A lot of enemies, even early on, can one shot you and be a huge step up in difficulty and the problem is not knowing how to tell until you bite the dust. 
• The game is not great at telling you when you are at low health and the bar is down in the corner and by default it dissappears out of combat. It’s a whole thing and I just kept forgetting about it. 
• Worship Altars are quite far apart. 
• You cannot pause the game, and it doesn’t tell you that. 

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Wuchang Fallen Feathers

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Developer: Leenzee

Publisher: 505 Games

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