74.6 hours played
Written 11 days ago
Has any European heard of Feng Shui in their lives?
I remember that during the American Elections, news outlet thought that because of the Chinese New Year, they should ask a Feng Shui "master" who would win elections and Donald Trump allegedly has strong Earth Feng Shui, and I quote "already supported with a lot of Fire" while Biden was weak to fire because he had strong Wood Feng Shui
Anyways he was completely wrong in everything he said to no one's avail this is just mysticism and superstition galore
But what if the very rules of the universe were actually dictated by nonsense like that? What if you were born on the day of Fire and therefore died of a heart attack because you saw too much water?
Now imagine that on top of that, you can become such a god at this magical system dreamt up by those who are genuinely insane, that you can behead someone with your bare hands by combining 18 different elements like the time of day, the size and materials of the room, the cushion you sit on, the season and the weather?
The entire point of the whole game is that everything is an excuse to something out of your control and you as the player, if you wanna survive, must understand every single system within a system within the game itself to not have your guys fall over and DIE because some random demi-god beast just lives there
Sorry man it wasn't my day, there's bad Feng Shui for me it's the [???]
If, for whatever reason, you have enough time to dedicate to the equivalent of 300h of cultivation IRL by reading Wiki articles, strategy guides and min-maxing spreadsheets, you'll love the game because it's a nightmare that keeps on giving
Also 408 achievements, all of which imply playing with added difficulty sliders and checks, as if the game wasn't dreadful by default
But beyond all that? Yeah it's an unbelievably well crafted game, it'll explain the entire genre of cultivation slop to you as the games built upon it are all, very chinese, and like to exploit your wallet
Here? You probably have a genuine 300h of content, and thousands of achievement hunting if you like the gameplay loop for whatever reason
The fair warning being that it's a second job type of game, you'll have to dedicate active brainpower to figuring out how everything works and by the time you're done, you'll have to do it all over again for one of the god knows how many systems of cultivation there are in the game now
Also yeah the story is notoriously dogshit but they added different ending paths, whether defeat all bosses or conquer the whole map and more so don't worry too much about that. It's primarily a sandbox, the story is just extra modules on top
But yeah auspicious Feng Shui with this one
Look forward to the second game, now THAT's something hype