侠客风云传(Tale of Wuxia)

It's a good game, with a long list of qualifiers: - It's an older game without many modern amenities, and you will probably need to use a guide to complete. I basically failed it the first time I played through blind without a guide, and only came back years later to actually finish it (and used a guide in places). - There are some bugs (at least in the current English version...), one of which will stop you from getting some of the endings. - The current English version is NOT the latest the version, and does not seem like it will be updated (DLC/Update came out years ago and is not in the English version). This has some bug fixes and more content that the English does not have, and trying to find/patch is pretty challenging. - The translation is mostly acceptable. There's a few places where things aren't translated, but I can only think of like half a dozen places where something that was maybe important wasn't translated... which is still not great, and I don't know how important those are as I cannot read much Chinese. Overall the writing varies from okay to interesting, the story sometimes is good and sometimes doesn't make much sense, some of the ending slides conflict…

河洛已经失去了这个IP，所有的收益也都 conductivity 进了智冠的口袋，所以它注定要永远沉寂下去了。这全要怪智冠那帮狗奴才，玩这种背后刺人的卑鄙手段！

Linear game with very slow progress without many options. Simply grind your stats extremely slowly and continually be interrupted with useless side stories. Fight enemies with triple your ability scores and no option to improve yourself. Grind your stats for more than a year in game time and still run out of energy after eight attacks. Fights can take more than one hundred turns without winning or losing. Just attack, skip a turn to gain energy, the enemy regens their health, attack again, and rinse and repeat. Routinely fight WAY more enemies than your group. You are outnumbered six to one, or more, a lot. Enemy attacks do 500 damage, yours do 250, even with max stats. Increasing evasion is useless. You dodge the same number of attacks with minimum stats as you do when you have max stat. Some of the game quests give you tests that they never provide answers for during the gameplay so you will fail them every time unless you like to search for the answers online. Exploration in cities is simply fetch quests over and over and over. Very boring. There are many quests that are you cannot skip and those are the worst quests in the game. Terrible game.

so good

In terms of overall quality, it's hard to say that this is a "good" game, as it is VERY rough around the edges. UI, translation, combat, balancing, controls, endgame/ post-game...pretty much every aspect of this game needs work. However, I wanted my fix of Jingyong Wuxia RPG and I've gotta say, I had a great time for the majority of my playthrough. The turn based management segment of the game was genuinely enjoyable, and the game features an extremely strong cast of characters with fantastic, witty writing that made me care a lot about its world and story. All in all it's a flawed but ambitious game. The developers really swung for the fences with this one, and I feel like this game probably influenced/ helped pave the way for better games that came after it. For me in many ways this game felt like Wandering Sword 0.5 - much less polished but has better story and characters. It's definitely worth checking out for Wuxia fans!

Very interesting game.