FIRST PLAY WUCHANG: FALLEN FEATHERS

The titular heroine of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers wakes up in a cave alongside a large Buddha statue, with little more than a sword and a strange feathered affliction on her arm. It's a symptom of a disease that's been ravaging the people of 16th-century China, turning some into terrifying beasts. Wuchang, however, can harness this condition into a power to help her fight.

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While this is in many ways a fairly traditional Soulslike - with methodical combat, stamina management and the threat of death from the environment as much as enemies - things start off relatively serenely, given you're in a remote bamboo forest lifted from a classic martial arts flick. But a large bloody claw mark on the ground is a bit of foreshadowing, while you soon encounter not-so-friendly bandits on your route to clear a temple of a mys