Unfortunately, for all of its unique appeal, there is one increasingly common problem in the games industry that Wuchang suffers from, and that’s a skeevy attitude towards women.
It’s extremely distasteful to depict women going through untold horrors, only for you to find multiple armor sets that let you run around in their underwear. You can tell a story about the depravity of an invading army, as long as you treat barbaric acts with the required sensitivity. Throughout the game, you’ll see women strung up, weeping in dark rooms with a slither of a health bar, and one of the main story threads in the game revolves around an evil queen who kidnaps women to experiment on them in order to create the perfect bride for her son.
It would have been fine if Wuchang had treated this story with the gravity it deserved, but you can then find the clothing of these women and read about how horribly they’ve suffered, only for the game to giggle as your character breasts boobily in those same clothes. It’s just gross, and makes vast sections of the game feel uncomfortable to play through.
