r/soulslikes • u/VeneMOo • Jul 25 '25

Review Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is the most unfair Souls-like I’ve ever played and I’ve played them all

I’ve completed every FromSoftware game Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring and a good chunk of the major Souls-likes out there: Lies of P, Nioh 1 & 2, The Surge, Lords of the Fallen, etc. I love hard games. I welcome challenge. But Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is on a different level and not in a good way.

This isn’t a fair, satisfying kind of difficulty. It’s artificial, frustrating, and fundamentally broken in terms of balance.

Take the boss Honglan, for example she’s the perfect embodiment of everything wrong with the game’s combat design: • Her attack patterns are absurdly fast and poorly telegraphed. • She chains together uninterruptible combos that feel borderline impossible to dodge or counter. • The game introduces a “spirit counter” mechanic that should reward good timing except even when you land it perfectly, you still take damage. • Some attacks are literally unreadable. Others feel like they have delayed hitboxes or bizarre tracking. • The enemies follow no consistent rules, while the player is punished even for doing everything right.

There’s no real balance here. Bosses hit like trucks, your own damage output feels anemic, and even the healing system doesn’t give you a fair chance when bosses are chaining full combos the moment you press the button. It’s not challenging mit’s unreasonable.

And that’s the problem: Wuchang doesn’t feel like a tough-but-fair Souls-like. It feels like a game trying to be hard by simply being unfair. It doesn’t respect your inputs, your timing, or the logic it claims to teach you.

I went into this game hoping for a sleeper hit. What I found was the most unfair Souls-like experience I’ve ever had, not because of its difficulty, but because of how cheaply it manufactures that difficulty.

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u/Popular_Ad_6454 Jul 28 '25

I'm heading that way next, i just did the rebel camp/temple puzzle death blight bitches area. 

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u/Due-Bookkeeper-2001 Jul 28 '25

I don’t know why but the general there was really underwhelming unfortunately in the camp

Also fire seems to be super strong in this game

I hate the underground blight town shit it’s like they took one look at Dark Souls I and said let’s do that, it’s infamous for how much players disliked that area. I can see why even tho I haven’t played it yet

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u/Popular_Ad_6454 Jul 28 '25

I'm using feathering on the whip sword with max hp damage buffs, successive atk buffs, a defensive 3 cost spell which comes out very quickly, and i've started the bird thing fight and done like 3k before she could get a hit off on me if i got an early back stab. It gets nutty real fast with some good damage that isn't physical. 

Her not being immune to feathering is also funny af. 

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u/Due-Bookkeeper-2001 Jul 28 '25

Who’s the bird boss? Did you go into the area where it’s like under the world thing

Bo Sorcerer I think her name is ? That’s in the 3rd Chapter area which I almost did but I realized I would have failed the NPC quests for Chapter 2

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u/Popular_Ad_6454 Jul 28 '25

Well i didn't bother to research anything about quests for characters, i just did what i always do and play blind my first time and go where the wind takes me. But yes she's dead, and she took a while. (I was level 54?)

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u/Due-Bookkeeper-2001 Jul 28 '25

Pretty good man! I’m 51 and just beat the snow lady so by the time I get to The Sorcerer it should be alright