Phantom Blade Zero has received a new gameplay trailer that shows the game in all its visual and auditory glory. S-Game, the developer behind the hack-and-slash game, is celebrating the Year of the Snake and had already announced before that it would release more details about its project on this day.
If you have yet to watch the trailer, it is linked below, and it is quite the showing:
The game looks just as good now as it did before, if not a bit more colorful. But the true star of the show has to be the heart-thumping soundtrack that mixes an electric guitar with traditional Chinese music to create a uniquely eerie yet familiar atmosphere.
In past gameplay trailers for Phantom Blade Zero, we’ve seen quite a bit of combat against different types of enemies, but we hadn’t seen a complete boss fight until this trailer, and it was worth the wait. The boss has very interesting attack patterns that don’t evoke many memories of traditional Dark Souls bosses but instead seem like a mix between Sekiro and Devil May Cry. That goes for the combat as well.
The game recently got sponsored by PlayStation, which definitely adds to the hype that Soulsbourne fans had already built up. The game doesn’t have a concrete release date yet, but by the looks of it, the gameplay, animations, music, and visuals look quite polished.
Phantom Blade Zero developers are trying to introduce new system mechanics along with unprecedented visuals in this style of game by using Unreal Engine 5. This includes a new blood counter mechanic that turns the protagonist into a red mist as he counters.
In terms of game design, the title will have a “semi-open world” kind of like God of War: Ragnarok or Final Fantasy 16, and not a completely open world like Elden Ring.
