Fallen Feathers Faces Censorship Allegations After Controversial Update

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, huh? It’s been called everything under the sun—like, seriously, the names are wild: Souls-slop, gooner-bait, and, strangely enough, a decent game. But now, let’s add “censored” to that list. Why? Because the recent 1.5 update stirred the pot, probably to calm down some fans in China. Some hardcore fans are just patting themselves on the back for snagging a disc copy, since they can always revisit the good ol’ original version.

So yeah, the patch dropped earlier this week. Most changes seemed harmless, like, yay, now you heal faster, plus you can dodge out of recovery animations. Nice. But wait—some changes raised eyebrows. One patch note read something like, “Added dialogs for some NPCs to complete some plots.” Okay, I thought, sounds innocent enough. Then they say they’ll “optimize the exhaustion animations to improve the plot”? Hmm, sounds fishy.

Leenzee, the developer, wasn’t spilling the beans straight away. But then social media, being its usual nosy self, dug up the dirt. Lance McDonald, this big-time Souls fan, shouts out, “Oh, they’ve made it so you can’t actually kill these historical bosses. Instead, they just, like, ‘chill out’ after you beat them. LOL!” Characters like Liu Wenxiu, Liu Cheng’en, and Emperor Chongzhen are suddenly not biting the dust.

Now, McDonald goes on a bit of a Twitter rampage too, like, “Folks were losing it over being able to kill the late stage Ming Dynasty ‘Dragon Emperor’ in the game. But c’mon, he’s already dead in history! Like, he’s a zombie or something you have to whack to stop from coming back. Getting worked up over this? Insane. And now him surviving? Total plot killer.”

He keeps on, “This is pure censorship from Chinese fans upset over killing historical figures from the Ming Dynasty’s end. It’s nuts. Oh, and the ‘pray’ gesture? Poof, gone. You used to get it from a Portuguese Christian dude in the game.” Oh, and a chapter that had you battling a bunch of Ming soldiers? They just give you a pass now, like, zero resistance. What even.

But here’s a twist—there were some other broad changes, like enemies and bosses getting nerfed, and players are losing it over patch 1.5 on Steam and Reddit. There are even whispers that mods on the Wuchang subreddit are deleting angry posts. One player’s saying, “After spending 80 hours on Steam, switched to console. Keeping Wuchang 1.0 alive!” Seems folks are trying to undo updates on Steam by tinkering with files.

Yet, not everyone’s raging. Some say the game’s running a bit smoother on PC. Does that mean Wuchang’s review score on Steam is climbing back up? Nah, not really. Now the complaint du jour is “censorship.” And Leenzee? They’re still mum about why they tweaked the story. Oh, and update 1.5? It’s live on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S as of today. Can’t wait to see what chaos unfolds next!