Regardless of the head start, it's always impressive how quickly you speed through these games, get the 100%, and push out the review. Great work, great content, keep it up!

You don't hype yourself up at all but the rate at which you 100% these games is so impressive. I don't think I've ever seen a reviewer with a better work ethic. I know its gaming, but still, I can't play for a couple hours in a row sometimes but you really put in the work amigo. Very glad I subbed and I've been watching nearly EVERY upload, you sir are a legend.

Would you consider adding another section specifically for the 100% completion aspect of the game you're reviewing? Specific challenges, potential rewards, unique achievements, etc.

I've been subscribed to you for just under a year now and I gotta say you're one of the best reviewers on KZfaq! I saw your first impressions video just yesterday for Wo Long, and that was actually better than the other game reviews I saw lol. I can't believe how fast you've become lately with these 100% reviews! It's like you've perfected your craft. So grateful I found your channel!🙏🏾

At this point Team Ninja is synonymous with terrible PC port even more so than square enix

Hey Mort, have you considered doing quick segments about how hard getting all achievements was? Think that would be cool to hear abour

I'd love to see you play and 100% games. Your hard work is being appreciated after working so hard all these years. Congratulations, you have earned it .

Hi Mortismal! Became a fan before the New Years due to you unparalleled (so far) coverage of cRPGs which you successfully encouraged someone like me who is not used to the genre to try the latest and greatest (WOTR). I love that you are covering the newer games outside cRPGs and I am currently awaiting for your takes on the future releases to come. Just like Wo Long! Though I have to agree on one thing to improve your niche of review structure: Would really like you to touch on the completionist aspect of the games you cover because even though I enjoy your thorough touch ups on the game mechanics, etc. I feel it's much better if you cover more of the special achievements or the sections of the game that usually don't get experience by someone who's playing the game in full (someone commented it here already but I really want to echo that one). Your experience of 100%'ing the game and the level of difficulty it may bring for someone like yourself who 100% their games all the time. Love your content! Here for your success as I' m sure it's nothing but up from here. Glad to be a part of your Steam group too! Cheers!

Your reviews are so good that by half video I already am able to understand if the game is for me or not, because you give so many details. Still, usually I end up watching until the end because the way you expose and argument are so enjoyable that it is a pleasure to follow you until the end of the video. Well done, keep on keeping on. Hope your channel gets big and bigger

I just watched your first impression and the full review is out, what a machine

You're so far my favorite KZfaq discovery of 2023, keep doing what you're doing man you're awesome!

Hey, so we had this discussion about your 100% approach in a Discord channel, and I think they are right in that you should add an extra section about the 100%. Many games can drastically change in the fun department if you aim to 100% them. You sometimes mention it but not always (How grindy, repetitive, are there new mechanics only for sidequest content?, is the 100% just the usual collect 3 chicken wings in 3 parts of the world quests? Can the best weapon only obtained through obscure side missions? etc.) Otherwise, great work as always!

Dude legit, you're an inspiration when it comes to your consistent work ethic, the quality of your reviews, and how you could achieve 100% completion so quickly and consistently. I'd legit would watch a video of your 100% completion process and any tips and tricks you might have for gamers who are interested in doing 100% completion of their games if you haven't already. Hell at this point I'll be watching your content for as long as you make them.

back to back to back videos! you are a beast mortim

before i watch the video just wanted to say that i really like the idea of you reviewing the games after 100% and it really sets you apart

You are such a prolific content creator, it's amazing. As a newcomer to your channel I am watching your older videos on the side but I can't match your upload speed!

Mortismal you are something else. I found another reviewer similar to you, The Completionist, who also completes games to 100% before reviewing. The difference between you two, however, is you review as many games in two weeks as he does in a year lol. I dig how you report on performance issues, which have become such a huge problem. Big Ups, and thank you for your hard work.

Good review as always. While I was waiting for your review, I knew I would play this game regardless, because I already played Nioh 1 & 2 and loved it. For those who are curious and know about Nioh, Wo Long is to Nioh what Sekiro is to Dark Souls... That's roughly the same tradeoff : Tighter and more fast paced combat at the cost of build variety. Nioh already did suffer from a weird itemisation where you had truckloads of weapons and armor pieces, most of it worthless since you could craft on top of and transmog existing items.

This is a great review. Just picked it up and looking forward to it.

My man! Thank you! Was looking forward for this review by you. All the best!

I'm genuinely impressed by you getting through the game. I think I literally can't get through the boat level because it keeps randomly crashing and resetting my progress...

Thanks; I was considering this one but at the least I'm going to wait a long time.

Despite this being a review, this video served as a summary for the game. I have already fully completed everything. Top context here mate!

Nice reviews. First time stopping by your channel 👍💪🏻🙏🏻

Awesome work! If you ever decide to review or even first look one of the two Nioh games, it would be very interesting to compare it to your thoughts on Wo Long!

I applaud your dedication to mouse and keyboard.

Great review, many thanks

Wow, you are a machine! Bravo 👏🏻

Thanks for the review. Onward to 200k. All glory to the algorithm.

Curious to see what you think of Nioh 1 & 2 and Sekiro. They are basically the games that this game borrowed most of the design choices from (same devs as Nioh series too)

I think adding this type of combat in a general dw game would be awesome! A massive scale battle but never feeling significantly OP, and engaging in dueling like dw4 had... ugh that's the dream. Idk how I feel about the demon bosses

Quickly became my faviroute reviews channel, keep it up bud

i played the Xbox game pass version on pc and it works great would recommend playing on that for now if you can. no bugs no crashes on first week

Love your review for this

Thanks for your incredibly fast service.

To be fair although the stat increases on gear aren't that much they're obviously supposed to be stacked for that reason. If you put 2% extra melee damage on all your gear you can get over a 12% bonus.

Wow... that was quick!

100% completion is the perfect example size to give review, honest work required before you give your score. Mortismal your the best!

If you're willing to put in the effort to get past the first few bosses it actually clicks and is fun even on PC with frame hikes (yes using a controller and added a frame cap to 60 instead of 120). Many concepts were not explained well imo like how to let your followers attack. Once you get it it's more fun. And yes want to echo the first boss sentiment. The 2nd level boss was literally a cakewalk where I was surprised it was dead so fast. And that's from me having struggled on the first boss for hours with close to 100 attempts. If you want to make it a bit easier, grind the level and get your morale to 25. Second once you get past the first level you're able to buy items to keep your morale level even after death which makes keeping your overleveled power easier when you do lose against the boss the first time.

I’ll play this for sure. Nioh 2 was my favorite game of 2020 so I’ll enjoy this. It doesn’t hurt that the game is on gamepass.

what the heck, super fast. we can always expect you to be ahead of the curve!

Playing on ps5 and I love it so far. I really like the parry system, holding r1 while parrying does a special weapon switch parry move that does damage. Yes some of the systems compared to Nioh 2 have been simplified so to speak but it also makes the game less grindy.

Love this channel

Cannot wait to see your steam year end stats

Im kinda amazed by the sheer consistency of your uploads. And the quality does not dwindle either. Even if this is your full-time job it is quite impressive. Kudos to you!

I tried this game yesterday and definitely hit the brick wall of the first boss. I finished all three Souls games, Elden Ring and Bloodborne but getting past that first boss will take some time. It's very comforting to hear that it's a real difficulty spike and not representative of the other bosses.

Great review, as always. Game is looking like a wait one year to play a decent PC version, thankfully I got nioh 2 this christmas

I'm still trying to finish Theatrhythm Final Bar Line and here's the damn GOAT 100%ing soulslikes and JRPGS. My dude. Give us a minute 😭 Jokes aside though, fantastic job. Nioh was a game I put down on 3 occasions when I got completely walled so I'm skeptical about Wo Long, especially with the first boss REQUIRING you to learn parrying, something I literally didn't use once in my entire run of Nioh and only truly learned the timing for with the Pursuer in Dark Souls 2. Props my guy 👏

I'll be honest, despite the flaws I'm really enjoying the game. A few patches here and there to improve technical issues and connection when playing co-op and invasions. PvP with that combat is fantastic, frenetic, it's like an anime fight. 🤣

Good review. I think I'll just finish the demo, and that will be enough for me

I played this game and beat it on xbox series x, and I've gotta say I only crashed once, I love the story and the difficulty, it's extremely good and if anyone has gamepass. Give it a try

To quote the great Ivan Dragoff, “he’s not a man, he’s a machine”. Our man Mort is a cyborg that doesn’t sleep

It's a shame that every single PC port seems to launch broken these days, but at the end of the day I'm enjoying it, problems aside.

How do you 100% so fast!? What a legend! good videos man

I swear I died at least 50 times trying to beat that tutorial boss. I came very close to uninstalling the game but persevered and finally beat him. The developers really screwed up with that opening boss fight, as it’s a massive roadblock for newer players; like myself.

Wow what a banger video

Only got to play the demo a little before sending my laptop on for repair. My experience with souls like is as follows demon souls dark souls 1-3, nioh 1 and 2, the surge 1 and 2, code vein and elden ring. Nioh 2 being most recent (few months ago) Here are some things that I noticed with my very limited play of the demo and from your review The keyboard bindings were a nightmare and had to rebind several keys. The camera and or motion didn't seem as fluid as nioh 2 when running. Gave me dark souls 2 vibes The deflecting critical blows had more variation in nioh 2 with the burst counter system. Similar situation enemy preps for an attack glows red and if you deflect the attack, the enemy will lose significant stamina, do damage and or get knocked down from my recollection. Nioh 2 had variations of the counter based on the 3 spirit types. Brute type had a claw swipe that if it connected with the attack it would active the deflection while other types would give a second of invulnerability and activate for example. I worry when it comes to companions/ spirit summons in soulslike games. Elden ring for example was horribly balanced when it came to summons in which bosses were trivialized. Players are encouraged to use them as part of the toolkit via upgrading and there were no negatives to this. For example dark souls 2 placed a decrease of souls gain for beating the boss per summon. Code vein had partners would fight with you and heal you but would run out of heals for themselves. My 2 main concerns are 1. Can I play without companions and if I do is the game balanced for it? 2. Do companions aggro the boss too much or buff me too much making boss fights very easy I fully agree with the item drops as I had a similar complaint with the nioh series. I can reroll the bonuses and then soul level the equipment. There was also no reason to use the non set items as the set bonuses were so powerful with life drains and power bonuses. Great video as usual

THIS JUST CAME OUT YOU MADMAN 😆 ❤️

Eagerly awaiting the review after 100% for the Yakuza series

Sir you are my hero, for real !

I don't know if you have played nioh 2 but I highly suggest you put that on a back log. It's great. 1 of the few games I go back to a couple times a year.

Thank you! Also, WHAT? HOW? Review key aside, this is fast work

I like this review, I feel like it's very honest to the reviewer and their experience. Me personally when I played, the game crashes but that's about the only issue I had. It never crashed in the cutscenes and would crash during specific boss attacks or so or enemy attacks after I'd already been playing like an hour and a half. So every like hour and a half or two it would crash after like a specific attack and then I would load the game up and redo the same patterns and attacks and all of that. And I would never crash again until another hour or two in lol. Definitely definitely one of their worst optimized games. Still a great game though. Despite the PC controls lacking, I play with remote control as I always do with games like this

Just looking at the footage the combat always looks like a mess. Numbers, visual effects, a ton of different bars flashing and filling/decreasing, button prompts, the weird red blood and vein effects and the somewhat hectic animations. It really doesn't look like something I want to play to be honest despite it sounding pretty fun on paper and my love for soulsike games.

damn 100% already. Good job

I feel that as someone that reviews the game after 100% it I would like to hear more in your reviews how was this journey, where there any egregious RNG? Annoying side content? What side activities would you not do because the rewards are not worth? Your reviews are very well structured but this kind of information only someone that experience all the game can give.

Above all the game is just fun and plays well I am enjoying it a lot just hope they add more invasion locations

I haven’t 100% the game but that was a great review of the game bro! 🤘🏾🤘🏾

Steam Deck - does that apply to the demo/prologue? I'm playing the demo on steam deck and it runs very well, set to mostly low (textures to high) i get 40-60fps at 720p and 70% resolution scale. Or do you mean it runs much worse later on?

It's a shame PC is having so many issues on optimization... PS5 is playing flawlessly for me and my partner. I hope the issues are resolved soon for everyone and thank you for another awesome review.

Another game you might want to add to your list of reviews is Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector. The game released in a great state, and the developers keep adding content, balance and bug fixes, even in 2023. Probably the best Warhammer 40,000 game of the last decade.

I really like this channel and the mentality of being natural in game before reviewing it.

Knowing team ninja games, its kinda insane how quickly you got through this

I like your honesty

I like this. Thank you

I feel bad for PC elitists. Im playing this on PS5 and having the time of my life! Fantastic game!

Thanks!

I guess I got lucky? I have a 3080 with a 5800 3dx and didn't get any crashes or any super crazy frame drops during my run. I do run a pretty barebones version of windows to increase my gaming performance but I feel like that wouldn't fix the issues most people seem to be having. Also what an absolute mad lad for never switching to a controller.

Time works differenty for you 👾

This is a blast to play

Bro, already?? lol you're a machine!

God ur fast!

Hey Mort- I really like your videos. One thing I'm conflicted about is whether to watch them before or after I've played the game. I really enjoy your analysis. You go into so much detail though and sometimes I don't want to go into a game feeling like I already know everything about it. Learning a game's in and outs is part of the fun for me. In that sense, I view videos like this one as part critique/retrospective, part tutorial and part review. I'm curious as to whether you have a view on this, and whether you get any similar feedback?

Best current reviewer in my opinion

I think if they fixed up a lot of stuff the game would be quite good for an introduction to souls games for many. Agree on the concept of blocking when necessary which is a habit I need to break. Some of the attacks just happen too fast to deflect. The lock on system for controller is very wonky. Switching targets is just doesn’t work sometimes. Multiplayer coop is little buggy but fun. All the buffing spells are the best and everything else just seems useless in comparison imo. Weapons are fun but the special moves they get I feel like I hardly use cause I’m spending spirit on spells or my own attacks to break armor.

Honestly my biggest complaint so far is the Reinforcements not being optional, otherwise 8.5/10. The only problem with the loot for me is that I'd like to see more variety earlier in the game and be able to increase my items rarities. I had tier 4 armor since the second mission but couldn't get a tier 4 weapon till 8 hours into the game and it was a weapon I'd never use.

I don’t know if it’s a glitch, the first boss took me forever to beat because the dodge and parry button seems not to work. After a day, it worked and I was able to defeat the boss. The next mission after that, the dodge button does not work anymore

Need an honest response: the first boss is so ridiculously tough but addicting from the demo. I shelved buying it because of the first boss. Is it still worth buying the full game and keep trying? Does the game get better?

Good show sir

already bought it but still gonna watch this video

Good lord, Mort. I got this on Friday and proceeded to spend 4 hours trying to beat the first boss (I did finally beat him so I could move on), and here you've knocked out the entire game in a few days. Also: If you DO play with a controller, it's only going to give you Playstation button prompts. I have muscle memory for PS icons so it's not a HUGE issue, but then there's the X button, which is in a different location for Xbox and PS controllers. I still haven't figured out what the Xbox equivalent of pressing the PS trackpad is that they keep showing etiher.

I just played trough the base game on game pass. I agree with the overall assessment. Would not recommend you buy it full price but if you have gamepass, givt it a go. It's ok to play through once, apparently it gets better with the DLCs and NG+ but after playing through NG, i just couldn't be bothered. Has its moments but overall disappointing Team Ninja game.

I don't understand where people find performance issues with this game, I have mid-to-high tier PC from 2017 or 18, only upgraded to 16Gb of RAM since, and the only performance issue I had was slight frame issues in the rainy level with the tiger boss.

it's on the gamepass so I've been playing this since friday. It's basically a sekiro-like parry/deflect system without fromsoft level design and really boring itemization like you said (and you get FLOODED in items at a point it actually even becomes super annoying). Also more than once I found that the companions made the boss fights harder for me since I had not time to read the patterns and they took the aggro when I was trying to deflect attacks so most of the time I just used them in levels and banished them for bosses. Also yeah it's funny how the first tutorial boss is the hardest to beat lol. Still quite fun to play but I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this.

good job

With all 3 DLC's out now the game is in a pretty good place. Ya, the levels are not great. But the combat makes up for any shortcomings in the rest of the game.

I'm so glad u mentioned that the tutorial is the hardest part and the boss in the tutorial is the toughest....I was starting to wonder...his second phase is ridiculous...to me the game seems to run very smoothly(playing on pc thru game pass with controller) seems like the least clunky soulslike I've ever attempted

Definitely recommend it on PS5, didn't crash a single time and didn't notice a single framedrop on performance mode. Great review as always! Definitely my go-to channel whenever I'm in doubt of getting a game :-)

Thanks :)

I'm slowly getting convinced that you must have a basement full of people that play these games for you :D How are you playing games so quickly?