Fallen Feathers Faces Censorship Allegations Following Controversial Update

Okay, so picture this: Wuchang: Fallen Feathers—a game folks have been all over the place about. Like, is it great? Is it trash? Is it for the hardcore gamers or, uh, not? But now, guess what—they went and slapped a big ol’ “censored” sticker on it. Yeah, after update 1.5, things got a bit wild. I heard this change was to calm down some fans in China. But a few diehard folks are out there thinking ahead, glad they snagged the game on disc, all like “Ha! Original version forever!”

The latest update just dropped, and they tweaked a bunch of stuff. Oh, the excitement! Some changes were good, right? Like, healing got faster (yes, please), and you can dodge out of some moves now—cool, right? But, hold on a sec. There were these other changes… cryptic? Strange? Kind of made me squint at the screen. One bullet point was all, “Added dialogs for some NPCs to complete some plots.” Okay? And something about optimizing exhaustion animations? I mean, what even?

So, Lance McDonald—this big Wuchang fan—throws it on social media: guess what? You can’t kill any big historical bosses anymore. They just get tired. Yup, get exhausted and then have a chat with you. Like what? Characters like Liu Wenxiu and Emperor Chongzhen, instead of, you know, meeting their fictional demise, they just hang out. How’s that even work with the story?

There was this tweet—wow, the sarcasm was palpable. Folks were mad they had to kill the “Dragon Emperor” (a zombie version, apparently). And now he lives? Messes with the storyline if you ask me.

Lance was also saying the change came from, like, pressure because some Chinese players didn’t want historically key figures, uh, offed in a game? Makes you wonder what’s next. Oh, and they yanked out the ‘pray’ gesture from this cool Portuguese character. Why? Beats me. Plus, there’s a part in Chapter 4 where the soldiers should be a pain, but now they just chill, and it’s like a walk in the park.

Let’s talk backlash. Oh, it’s happening. Players on Steam and Reddit are not having it. Rumor has it the subreddit mods are deleting complaints. Suspicious, no? One player said, “Enough!” after 80 hours—ditched the PC for console. Some are even rolling back updates on Steam, getting all technical.

But hey, not everyone’s losing their minds over it. Some performance tweaks are happening for PC. So, are reviews getting better? Nope. The censorship thing really riled folks up. Why’d Leenzee do it? No word yet. And boom, update 1.5 hit PS5 and Xbox Series X/S too. What a ride.