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Foreign Media Hands-On with Phantom Blade Zero: The Year's Most Surprising Action RPG
Summary
Foreign media recently went hands-on with Phantom Blade Zero for four hours, calling it the year's most surprising action RPG. Developed by S-GAME's Liang Qiwei (Soulframe) as a spiritual successor to the 2010 indie title Rain Blood, the game is built in Unreal Engine 5. Liang made Rain Blood with RPG Maker, where it surpassed 4 million global downloads, then founded S-GAME and finally realized this wuxia vision on consoles and PC a decade later. Set in the fictional Ming-dynasty-inspired martial world of Phantom World, the story follows a protagonist once the most feared assassin of The Order, framed for regicide and saved by a mysterious healer who implants an artificial heart after a blade pierces his chest, leaving him only 66 days to live. His former friend Zuo Shang has become his sworn enemy. Action star Donnie Yen serves as creative consultant and contributes motion capture. The four-hour demo included at least seven boss fights. Combat is fast-paced hack-and-slash with juggle combos, weapon-swap follow-up attacks, and five skill trees. The game encourages outfit and build experimentation, with no progress lost on death, and two-phase bosses do not restart their first phase after a defeat. Difficulty ranges from the relaxed Traveler to the hardcore Sixty-Six Days, featuring 66 lives and permadeath. Media describe it as blending hack-and-slash, soulslike, platforming…
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