Sony are known for tying down IP rights when they get third parties to develop for them, which presumably was a decent enough deal for Koei Tecmo given they went on to do Nioh 2 as well. Doesn’t stop them taking the Dark Souls route though obviously 🙂. I’d day setting change and other elements of Wo Long make it more distinct from Nioh than Dark Souls is from Demon’s - but it’s clearly significantly based on the Nioh foundation.
Completely forgot Wo Long is coming to GamePass though \o/.