De volgende brutale actiegame van Team Ninja, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, lijkt opnieuw een leuke uitdaging te worden. Zoals we al gewend zijn van de studio, die eerder onder andere de NioH-games maakte, wordt ook deze game geen makkie. Hierover werd uitvoerig gesproken in een recent interview van MP1st met producer Masaaki Yamagiwa.

Yamagiwa gaf mee dat de game geen ‘easy mode’ zal hebben, maar dat hij dit beschouwt als iets goeds. Hierdoor wordt de uitdaging voor iedereen hetzelfde en krijgt iedereen hetzelfde gevoel van voldoening wanneer een sterke vijand wordt geveld.

“We’re thinking it’s ‘good’ to have one set difficulty so that everyone has the same experience of overcoming a really intense obstacle and they all have that feeling of achievement, like I did it. But the caveat there is giving players all different ways that they can do that. So you could talk to your friends and say hey I beat this boss and this is how I did it, you want to talk to people and go online because you really want to have communication with them. It’s really important to keep the challenge the same and giving players different ways to overcome it. Wo Long is not an easy game by any means but we’re working to give players as much freedom and agency to play it as they want, overcome obstacles in their own way.”

De game geeft wel genoeg vrijheid aan de spelers om sterker te worden en zo de verschillende obstakels te overkomen. Een voorbeeld hiervan is het ‘Morale’ systeem.

“One thing that comes to mind is the morale system. You have a morale rank and as you keep increasing it you get stronger and you can use that to choose which enemies to fight, or raise it up so you can take on a harder enemy and maybe they’ll be a little bit easier now that you’re stronger. You can also level up your character like a traditional action RPG and get stronger that way.”

Daarnaast zal de game ook de mogelijkheid bieden tot multiplayer, om zo samen baasgevechten aan te gaan.

“There’s multiplayer as well, so you can get online with your friends, two other people so a total of three online and then take on bosses as a group. We’re really giving players their own ways to be able to tackle all these things, that’s really important to Wo Long’s game design.”

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty verschijnt in de loop van 2023.