Sure, let me give this a go:
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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers — and this is wild — it’s been called all sorts of things. I mean, “Souls-slop”? What does that even mean? Anyway, I heard someone else call it “gooner-bait” (don’t ask me why), and surprisingly, some folks actually think it’s good. But now, there’s a new word tossed into the mix: “censored.” Yep, after this new update thing, version 1.5, which stirred the pot quite a bit. Some hardcore players in China — or maybe not, who knows — seemed super mad, so they made some changes. And, oh boy, the lucky ones who’ve got the disc version must be feeling pretty smug right now since they can still access the original chaos.
So, what about this new patch? Popped up earlier this week and seemed harmless at first glance. You know, those updates that make you shrug. Like, healing animations got quicker, and now you can dodge out of recovery animations — which is honestly way too convenient if you ask me. But, then, there were these odd changes. “Added dialogs for some NPCs to complete some plots,” one note said. And another was about optimizing exhaustion animations, whatever that means.
Leenzee, the developer, threw everyone for a loop. I mean, it took a bit for the penny to drop, right? Lance McDonald, who’s like this big shot in the Souls game world, shed some light over on social media. Apparently, you can’t kill major historical bosses or NPCs anymore. Nah, now they just get “exhausted” and chill out after a fight. Seriously. They even have a chat with you. 😂 Characters like Liu Wenxiu and Emperor Chongzhen who’d normally kick the bucket are now sticking around.
Someone on Twitter was going off about it. Like, the late stage Ming Dynasty “Dragon Emperor” — people went nuts that you could kill him in the game. The wild part is, historically, he was dead already. And the game had you fight his zombie version to stop him from, uh, coming back to life. But now he survives? There goes the plot!
So McDonald was going off, right? He was talking about how this change was driven by pressure from Chinese players who weren’t happy about key historical figures getting knocked off in the game. And guess what else? They yanked out the “pray” gesture from the Portuguese Christian character. For real. Oh, and Chapter 4’s section with Ming soldiers? They’ve been told to chill too. So that tough part is now, like, a walk in the park.
Naturally, all this stirred up a mess. Folks are flipping out on Steam and Reddit. There’s even talk that mods are censoring complaints over on the Wuchang subreddit. I stumbled on this comment where someone said, “After 80 hours on Steam, I pulled the trigger for console,” screaming “Long Live Wuchang 1.0.” Some are even messing with files to roll back the updates.
But not everyone hates it, weirdly enough. Some players notice it’s running smoother on PC, you know? It’s just not enough to nudge those Steam ratings out of the pit. The negative reviews just swapped from whining about framerate drops to the whole censorship ruckus. Leenzee’s keeping mum on why they changed up Wuchang’s storyline. Oh, and the update hit PS5 and Xbox Series X/S today, if you’re into that.
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