Fallen Feathers Faces Censorship Accusations After Controversial Update

Alright, let’s give this a real go. Here’s my take:

So, where to even begin with Wuchang: Fallen Feathers? This game’s been called a bunch of things: some good, some… eh, not so much. Anyway, they recently dropped this 1.5 update. And wow, it’s causing a stir.

So, apparently, they changed a bunch of stuff to calm down some Chinese fans who weren’t too thrilled about certain elements. Like, imagine buying the game on disc—smart move now, huh? The diehard fans can keep playing the original version without sweating these new tweaks.

This new patch, it just landed earlier this week, had some changes. Some were minor, like you know, speeding up healing and letting you dodge out of recovery. Great, right? But then—boom—there’s these other changes that are a bit… sketchy? “Added dialogs…” they said. Like, what’s up with that?

Leenzee, the developers, clearly had something up their sleeves. Lance McDonald, who’s really into this game, went social media public with it. You used to fight these bosses—they were historically significant figures, by the way—and now, instead of offing them, they just chill out after the fight. Like, seriously? Liu Wenxiu, Liu Cheng’en, Emperor Chongzhen… well, they’re all just kicking back in the game now.

And then Lance, oh boy, he was like, “People flipped about killing the Ming Dynasty’s ‘Dragon Emperor.’” By the way, he was gone in history already, and it kind of wrecks the storyline now that he’s just hanging out.

McDonald kept going, mentioning some players in China weren’t too chuffed about the whole thing. And guess what? The “pray” gesture got axed too—shame, right? The game just keeps changing. Those beefy Ming soldiers? They’re not even a thing in Chapter 4 anymore. Easy peasy now.

Oh, and along with that, there are some general nerfs. Now, players are kinda mad about this patch 1.5—a real uprising on Steam and Reddit. People claim the mods on the subreddit are sweeping complaints under the rug. One guy wrote, “After all those hours on Steam, I switched to console. Long live version 1.0!”

Yet, not everyone’s pulling their hair out—some folks feel the game’s running smoother now on PCs. But no, don’t get it wrong, the Steam ratings? Still kinda tanking. Performance issues morphed into folks bombarding reviews over the “censorship.”

Leenzee? Mum’s the word on why they tweaked the story. The new update’s hitting PS5 and Xbox Series X/S today, so yeah, madness continues.