This or Tales of Wuxia ? and time management game or more rpg

[Zzyl_tsw]

Hello,

I had Tales of Wuxia in my wishlist.
One of the comment mentionned it was more a game about managing your hero development during the available time than a pure tactical rpg (this is fine for me)

I just saw this game was "a pre-sequel" to tales of wuxia.
-> is it still a lot about hero management or more a tactical ?
-> which would you recommend to play first ?

I will play in english (i do not speak/read chinese)

Thanks

[Kayderim]

Tale of Wuxia - your character starts as a useless hobo and you can shape him into being the strongest person in the game. this game has a date system where certain events happen within a time, and if you don't do them in time you lost it for thee rest of the playthrough. Same goes for the girls you can date (there are 13 iirc, and you can get 11 of them at once in the harem ending), luckly there's a very nice guide on steam that will cover most, if not all events that you can follow

There are dozens of martial arts for you to learn and i believe 8 different fighting styles, when working in your professions (cooking, mining), you'll play a mini game and those are very fun except for fishing. The story will be mostly linear, major events will happen in certain datesof the year (there are 4 years in total), in the meantime you can either train your character, go on strolls (to cover events / relationships and get some nice gear, do chores, train your skills (calligraphy, music etc) or work on your professions to sell the loot or use it to craft stuff.

Depending on your actions you'll get 1 of 5 different different routes, the game is very light hearted until you reach the ending point, where the things get very serious, and the second route (evil route) is depressing as hell. I covered pretty much everything in this game and have around 280 played hours in total, very fun to play and with a huge amount of content for the price.


Tale of Wuxia:The Pre-Sequel - You'll play as the older brothers to the main character from the previous game, and the story will happen 2 years prior to the first game. This one is an open world game, you'll be able to explore the world from the start and you'll unlock new locations and you progress in the story or do sidequests, this game is not linear and is very easy to get lost, so i recommend that you pay attention to the dialogue to see where you'll have to go next.

In this one, you'll be managing a party, 3 will be the protagonists that you'll be stuck with for most of the game, and you get to recruit 6 more people, you can have a total of 9 characters with you and i believe that there are 44 - 48 characters for you to recruit, most of them are characters from the previous game. some of these characters even have passives that helps you like increasing your exp or making it easier for you to stop itens like plants or insects. There are 2 characters that are able to steal itens from enemies and you'll get rich quickly by selling all the loot. They can even steal rare weapons from bosses, so use them as much as you can.

There are even more martial arts and way more weapons for you to find, and while your characters can't use everything like the protag from the previous (Gu Yuexuan can only fight with unarmed and Jing ji with swords), the cast secondary characters will cover everything else, and your party is much more useful than in the previous game, as here you can costumize everything the same way you do with your main characters.

There's no romance in this one, and no mini games, the story is pretty serious and very rarely will have some light hearted moments but its still very good, this one has only one good and bad ending afaik, and it depends on a secondary character (fat yue). Some of the battles in this game can be huge, you'll be fighting up to 20 - 30 people at once, and some bosses are hard af.

Both games are 10/10 for me, i recommend you picking both and start with the first game so you can be introduced to the characters properly, because the prequel already assumes you know them.

[Zoltrixer]

Hello,

I'd say time allocation is a lot more important for Tale of Wuxia, as you have a certain period of time to spend in a city, for example, or use time as resource when training, questing and such.

For Tale of Wuxia: Pre-Sequel, I don't remember anything depending on time, only that some quests cannot be done anymore if you don't do them before some other quests.

I'd recommend playing Tale of Wuxia first and then Tale of Wuxia: Pre-Sequel, as the first one is probably a better introduction and I personally loved seeing the differences and noticing the connections between the two games.

Cheers.

[Zzyl_tsw]

Thanks for your detailled feed-backs !
I will then buy Tales of Wuxia, and think a bit to see if i buy the second now or perhaps later