i dont understand this timeline

[highfist]

i am on part 4 and already 6 years have passed since the beginning but i have no idea what i did in those 6 years and the characters dont really mention it

[Tiasmoon]

To put it diplomatically: the storytelling isn't the best or most immersive.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

it's the same issue as Nioh 2's story where the plot basically just follows Hideyoshi's life patch but skips a bunch of stuffs in the middle and only focuses on a selective number of events.

This game is based on historical events/chapters of the Romance of the Three Kingdom novel, but only choosing some of the important events to focus on and using them as stages.

I think the dev might have expected many people to already be very familiar with the story of the ROTK (from playing Dynasty Warriors, ROTK strategy games, or just because they are Japanese/Chinese/Koreans etc), which is why there are doing such a bad job with it because it's nothing more than a backdrop/stage for the gameplay to take place.

[Žviks]

Do you really care about the story in a souls-like game?

[MajorWeed]

Originally posted by Žviks:

Do you really care about the story in a souls-like game?

Yes, why not

[Kawalorn]

The story is meant to follow Romance of the Three Kingdoms. So if nothing interesting happened in a certain period, it's just skipped. Weird storytelling, but it was a deliberate choice.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

it's the same issue as Nioh 2's story where the plot basically just follows Hideyoshi's life patch but skips a bunch of stuffs in the middle and only focuses on a selective number of events.

This game is based on historical events/chapters of the Romance of the Three Kingdom novel, but only choosing some of the important events to focus on and using them as stages.

I think the dev might have expected many people to already be very familiar with the story of the ROTK (from playing Dynasty Warriors, ROTK strategy games, or just because they are Japanese/Chinese/Koreans etc), which is why there are doing such a bad job with it because it's nothing more than a backdrop/stage for the gameplay to take place.

Nioh 2's story is more coherent. I would instead compare this to Nioh 1's story that didnt have Hideyoshi's life as narrative thread.

[Masketta Man]

You'd think by this point people would understand that Team Ninja creates games that expect you to know the overarching story of either the Sengoku period or in Wo-Long's case, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and those people make up a vast majority of their playerbase and audience.

[2D神]

Like many has said, the story just follow ROTK but with a twist, same goes as Nioh during the sengoku jidai. They probably expect you to at least know some of these before playing.

[met aalfret naar zee]

Yeah, you don´t hear what you´ve been doing in that time, and even more importantly you don´t get any cutscenes for the important events happening in the meantime.
Not to mention that the story goes in boring directions.
Oh, and almost no background lore.

It´s not all bad though, I really like what they did with Sun Jian´s story, and the yellow turban story was not bad. I just expected some more (side) mission levels about areas devastated by the yellow turbans.
Anyway, I expected better, I guess it was rushed

[Tenshu]

Originally posted by 2D神:

Like many has said, the story just follow ROTK but with a twist, same goes as Nioh during the sengoku jidai. They probably expect you to at least know some of these before playing.

Though it could've done like Spirit of Sanada where glossary bits can be accessed by selecting names for those who don't know about ROTK.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by Tenshu:

Originally posted by 2D神:

Like many has said, the story just follow ROTK but with a twist, same goes as Nioh during the sengoku jidai. They probably expect you to at least know some of these before playing.

Though it could've done like Spirit of Sanada where glossary bits can be accessed by selecting names for those who don't know about ROTK.

Something like this?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2944771901

[Nepnep]

Originally posted by highfist:

i am on part 4 and already 6 years have passed since the beginning but i have no idea what i did in those 6 years and the characters dont really mention it

In those six years, you travel the world eating rice and doing nothing else cause finding food is supposedly hard af in that era.

[Nanashi]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

it's the same issue as Nioh 2's story where the plot basically just follows Hideyoshi's life patch but skips a bunch of stuffs in the middle and only focuses on a selective number of events.

This game is based on historical events/chapters of the Romance of the Three Kingdom novel, but only choosing some of the important events to focus on and using them as stages.

I think the dev might have expected many people to already be very familiar with the story of the ROTK (from playing Dynasty Warriors, ROTK strategy games, or just because they are Japanese/Chinese/Koreans etc), which is why there are doing such a bad job with it because it's nothing more than a backdrop/stage for the gameplay to take place.

Nioh 2's story is more coherent. I would instead compare this to Nioh 1's story that didnt have Hideyoshi's life as narrative thread.

Funnily enough I found Nioh 1 story far easier to follow. Everything was more or less related. Nioh 2 on the other hand was jumping all over the place. I think how they went about Hideyoshi was interesting and kind of smart to allow character creation but I much preferred the story telling of the first game.

Unfortunately this game has the same issue as Nioh 2 but this time you aren't even following a single character. You are just this nameless warrior who fights alongside multiple characters.

On a sidenote. Nioh 1 was following the life of the English sailor who first arrived in Japan. Yes, they changed things about it but still based on history. Maybe not as famous as Hideyoshi but famous nonetheless.

[MajorWeed]

Originally posted by Nanashi:

On a sidenote. Nioh 1 was following the life of the English sailor who first arrived in Japan. Yes, they changed things about it but still based on history. Maybe not as famous as Hideyoshi but famous nonetheless.

Exactly. When a protagonist is invested in the story, it's easier for us to follow, even when the storytelling is lackluster. Anjin-dono had an agenda, a goal outside of the constant betrayals and political affairs of the others characters. He was in japan for a reason. That's why in my opinion, the stories of Nioh 2 and wo long are way worst. The whole "silent protagonist" trope is really tiresome. Playing a character with no backstory, no goal and no real reasons to be invested in the plot is just bad.

[AngryChinesEDOTAER]

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