Nov 19, 2025
3 min read
An RPG theme park where every ride is driven at half speed.
Where the Winds Meet is a clever exercise in maximization.This sprawling world is Voxia's dynamic love letter filled with infectious characters who can scale walls and practically fly through the air, the grand ambitions of natural beauty, and the relentless violence and dark political magic that threatens it daily.War is a steady and pleasant ebb and flow, full of style and substance, but slow and very tactical.At a speed you think just from looking at.The collage of the story it is called, between the main story and the many mini-stories and elements, is a disaster in terms of thematic matters and quality.But unfortunately, the whole experience of this journey is filled with late game development speed and rocky valleys, which is hung with a small amount of micromanagement that turns the idea of interacting with these RPG systems into stones.
If you've seen movies like Sleeping Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Kong Postel, you've come across wuxia literature before.It's a genre that burdens things to manage things and decorate, it's usually a Wander Warmer who wants to find their place in a world that creates magic, and the strongest builders that use tools and fly.Naturally, all this turns this good house into a video game, and where spirit really meets beautiful muscles consistently, at least.
The latest version of 10-century China is a place of leadership, where strong Clans struggle to gain land in both open warfare and in the world.It is the perfect backdrop for your character, an orphan raised by the working class, just itching to leave a humble life after the search and purpose.The story is on the grind, with a handful of memorable moments.There is competition, but it is often not through some terrible English words that lead to the exchange of thick sentences and unnecessary sentences.
It also suffers from strange technical problems, such as voice lines overlapping each other, subtitles that don't match the words coming from the characters' mouths, or voices that disappear entirely.A dramatic final scene where two enemies unite to defeat a great evil when their voices suddenly stop speaking and never come back.Only two chapters, but they are long.With some diversions in side quests and mini-gameplay, it took me around 30-40 hours to complete, and while each works well in its own separate stories, it leaves your Wanderer's journey on an unsatisfying cliffhanger.
The various side stories have the same uneven quality.In general, the best ones are better written and have much more interesting plots than the main campaign, as well as greater dramatic scope.One story saw me guiding spirits into the afterlife helping them overcome the physical and emotional trauma of the violent fall of their Buddhist commune.Another begins only when you join some half-naked trainees at the martial arts school in what appears to be some sort of hazing ritual.There's a spontaneity to these stories that you don't see in other RPGs like this, but they're also marred by far more technical flaws that undermine the main story.
True to its inspiration, the combat in Where the Winds Meet is as flashy and energetic as you'd hope.Each of the seven weapons looks different and dangerous, and some of them have different research styles that change the patterns of your normal and heavy attacks, as well as the weapon skills you can unleash on your enemies.You can equip two at a time, giving you access to different types of attacks that can give your loadout some much-needed flexibility – but the weapon styles are split into support, DPS and tank types, and I found I did much better with pairs of weapons that matched their differences, as switching between them offered more synergy.I spent almost all of my playtime as a tank, with a spear and a glaive that would actually enhance each other if I used certain skills in certain combos.I'd start with the spear to taunt my enemies and boost my defense, which would turn my glaive's self-defense ability into a powerful version that would also increase damage if I switched to it for a short time.
You start with a sword and get a chance to choose a spear and a third weapon, but it's a pain to find them later.Usually on trips you find a belt or an umbrella with a blade because they can't be used until you learn how to fight with them. I have to make it look like what I'm doing with the umbrella, and I have to style it with something I don't like.
This skill chaining and buff management made Windsmate feel more like an MMO than an action game.It's faster than the genre might be known for, but the combat doesn't share the sensibility of Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry.There are no flying enemies or dogfights.No aerial combo or wall icon.Maximize damage opportunities.I can't speak for how the other classes felt, but the tank was right at home with me as a lost MMO guy.Controlling when to defend and when to move away was almost like the dark knight in Final Fantasy XIV, minus the active block, parry and dodge.
This tool helps break the Autopilil syndrome of many battles.Especially par kari, who often takes advantage of the difference in effectiveness of the attackers in the big attack to create an opening that is not canceled out by the road balance of stamina and fatigue.Purnmi becomes very important because there is an automatic citizen of the system that can be found and disabled to ensure the resources it manages.This is a great system for me, one that I have been playing since the beginning and I see it as a way to create some difficulties for those who need it.
The Mmo-Bowdier combination is listed in size as usual, I always get the same for my puppies, many of the originals are the same.
Surprisingly, I think the shortcomings of this combination are most apparent with the bosses.Where things slow down and are reduced to a clear cycle of attack dodging and attack dodging.Avoiding large telegraphic costs, etc. Most bosses are just a bunch of thugs with more health and damage than the kind of guys you face in the field.The occasional big show boss can shake things up.But even a bad person of that level is hit or miss.Chinese dragon dancers in full-coverage costumes that shoot beams of light and fireworks at you?Mara, the deceased Chapter 1 boss who is trying to relive Sacro's Lady Butterfly?miss.
The world's world is full of things to find and work as a journey of your trip.Before, I am very surprised by one of a bit of culture in, as to make the bai chi chi chi chic.However, the fact that the same time of the person is in place where the wind will be there for the window.You can really look like it and through the study (a smile in a bottle of place to put a button to stop a ring), you can learn Tai Chi Chi chi chi chi chi chi chi chi chi chi chi.These, and any other some trips swammā'angled, Aunties auded this Agree, Osses.With Tai Chi, can I be a great deal of window to throw this one's own.I can use it to call the bodies of water and shake the wild animals over the hands of the bad men.of many, many things to meet you to get torturing my dear to my lovers or assisting things in the crowd.
The big problem Wind faces, however, is that it is filled wall to wall with other works that come close to such wisdom.There are few portables that make a good first impression like curing bone-causing diseases or setting broken bones in a card battle with a card battle.advancing positions.Most anything in the parts of the type of thing you'll find in opening any of these obstacles in a way that makes the obstacles more than twice the trip worth.
And that's despite everyone throwing tons of loot at you every time you succeed.Almost everything you do in this game works, but very little of what you get is worth even opening your inventory to look at again.Not that it's all worthless, it's likely to be potions or food that are automatically used when needed, or various crafting and upgrade materials that will be patiently waiting in your pockets when you occasionally need them.My only relationship with any of these things is to wait until you have enough when it's time to level up.
Same with gear, which just throws me when it's time to increase my power level.Weapons, weapons, and equipment have small things to increase things like this and the damage of small percentages, but this text method of the team's office, but it can not make the impact of the game until the end of the game until the end of the game.Where the spirit meets somehow finds ways to take micromagement even further.Borda, which allows you to spend resources in order to equip small scale weapons, and finally allows you to equip full sets to your total power.I have to think that the amount of people who are excited to take out the whole numbers in this game in such a neurotic way is evidenced in the fingers and toes.Most people, including me, will click on the "Quick" button in the bottom corner that destroys all the fat-enhancing things against this one.
There are milestones that freeze your ability to continue leveling at certain points until you successfully pass the test, pitting you against waves of enemies that you must kill within a certain time frame to progress.Passing it not only increases your max level, but also increases the collective strength of all your enemies, which feels like it undermines the progress you've made to complete it in the first place.After the first four of these global levels, the breakthrough tests start to get tougher.Another match where I had to put in the most effort in the Winds Meet was probably the test of my success in reaching level seven, as I couldn't kill the flaming calvary boss that threw at me fast enough.
However, rejecting a legitimate challenge is not really the vexing part of this test.As you get closer to the end, the main story quests start to level up, meaning you have no choice but to spend your time just grinding experience to pass those literal DPS checks.However, your progress test may require you to wait hours in real life before you can level up, as it did for me with two occasions when I listed my progress behind the daily server updates.It's ridiculous that I'm rushing towards progress.Don't tell me how to waste my life!
Windy coasts, hills, hills, rolling, rolling mountains and the city of Jiangjing reflect Jian's song of pressure and your wall/process is a temporary experience in which they actually work.But in each game session, at unknown times, these features stop working completely, only to fit together and can only be adjusted when the client enters.All of the movement options require some hidden chests or movements that don't feel great at the moment.
Navigating the menus to sort your equipment, check the map or level up your skills can also be a chore.The entire main menu always freezes when you open it, and every time you do, it freezes.Button presses are unresponsive on controllers and scrambling through sub-menus to click a tooltip so I can read more item descriptions or find out where I can find more than one thing on the map was always a tedious experience, especially when those links and shortcuts lead to blank screens or just break all together.World of the Winds Meat could have done with a few dozen less random five-minute mini-quests if it had spent more time browsing through all these tables to make the process less painful.
You can play a lot of co-op in Where Winds Meet, but pre-release servers were pretty sparse, so you couldn't find people to run multiplayer games like clearing an Assassin's Creed-style playlist of outposts or "big raid" bosses with multiple stages and mechanical gimmicks.take the measures that Simon Says requires to minimize damage if necessary, but if they weren't essentially immortal, I'm not sure they would have had what it took to kill any of these formidable foes.I'm sure my experience here doesn't reflect the design intent of these big co-op shenanigans, but I'm still glad I was able to get access to the new items they drop without having to find five of my friends.
