I've played the 3 main chinese RPG franchises (Sword and Fairy, Xuan Yuan Sword and Gujian) I guess I can give you my thoughts.
The first four Sword and Fairy games are hidden gem chinese RPGs especially the first game, they dropped the ball starting with the fifth game, six is downright unplayable with a copy pasted FFXIII battle system and the seventh game which is also the upcoming one called Together Forever will have real time combat, still have to try that to judge it but it looks clunky as hell.
Xuan Yuan Sword is the opposite to Sword and Fairy, the first games are bad to average but the last 2 games were fairly decent, they prioritize gameplay instead of story and personally I liked that.
Gujian franchise is downright boredom fest for me, I still remember that thread here at GAF calling Gujian 3 a chinese Final Fantasy, lmao yeah it's pretty but it's boring AF too, the combat is literally taken from one of those Mobile Gacha Action RPGs plaguing the chinese and korean games.
Found it XD
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/guij...heir-own-lore-culture-and-traditions.1526016/