I have been on a wuxia kick lately and for those who dont know what that is it's basically a genre of Fiction Focusing on Chinese folk lore and mystical and heavily focuses on martial arts fantasy.
it comes from the Chinese words Wu- Meaning Martial and Xia- meaning righteous so Wuxia means righteous martial artist or righteous warrior.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Forbidden Kingdom are decent movie examples of this genre but im looking for video games...
preferably ones that dont suck! XD
the happens to be two major issues with this...the first one is that these games are almost exclusively Chinese in origin so the English translations are often either non existent or...spotty...at best.
the second problem is that Chinese game developers...have not really had the best track record with me of producing quality games. Much like Korean MMOs...
that being said...there have been a few exceptions =p
there's a Chinese Indie dev team that put out a game on steam called "wandering Sword" and it's... well it's great! it's a Mostly ok translation but the game itself is a LOT of fun.
looks like Octopath traveler but it plays nothing like it =p if your looking for martial arts fantasy give this one a shot!
if your have any other suggestions, i'll look into them. ^^
IN wandering sword you begin the game as an absolute Nobody...wich is pretty standard in the wuxia world, and you can learn cultivation techniques to make yourself stronger and unlock your meridians acupunture points your Qi can flow through you master different martial menuvers ect You can use a Sword, a Saber, A Fist, a Pole arm, or a Hidden weapon (think ninja tricks) and the fights play out on a tactical battle grid.
each weapon has it's own specialty, Swords are good AOE and High damage, and follow the whole.. flying sword, magic balde, sword intent tropes. they attack in Lines
Sabers tend be be AOE based as well but attack in collums.
Fist weapons tend to be single target or very small AOE and are high damage, as high as sword, but with much better dueling potential.
polearms are small aoes around the user and tend to be very defensive/supportive
and hidden weapons are debilitating and AOE/Range heavy.
ive had a blast with it and the game is hoenstly realy cheap for what you get.
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