"Director is not a fan of Soulslike combat. He is a fan of MGR, DMC, and Ninja Gaiden." The director has the same taste I do in character action games. This game has now my complete and full attention.
As someone who believes fromsoft is one of the best videogame developer in the industry today, I also do think souls combat is mediocre outside of bloodborne and sekiro. He's spot on about the level design and exploration of the souls games being the core appeal of it.
There was a line from a interview of the director I watched before: "Traditional ACT games has complex combat but simple level/environmental design, while the souls game has complex level design but simplified combat. What we want is both complex enough combat and complex enough level design"
The fact that enemies have custom animations for how they parry YOUR attacks is insane attention to combat detail. Definitely have my attention on this game
Expedition 33 looked SO INTERESTING. For some reason, it kind of brought me back to the time when Blue Dragon was coming out on the Xbox 360 as like the first Japanese-based RPG to release on an Xbox console...but it also reminds me a bit of Legend of Dragoon / Legaia with the button prompts. I was highly impressed with seeing it.
A lotta “this game isn’t real” people ate their words last weekend. It’s crazy how studios like S-Game and Shift Up went from gacha games to making badass action games like Phantom Blade 0 & Stellar Blade
I love that devs that made mobile games are entering the console space with amazing looking games. First stellar blade and now this, it's really incredible.
@@nelieltu9730 works for me. If the end result is I can get a really cool looking action adventure game made by the creators of candy crush ill be happy 😂
Mentions Fromsoft level design - Ok, seems neat. Mention of Director loving MGR, NG, and DMC games - Now I'm interested Gameplay shown - fck this shit, instant buy.
Keep in mind this is a remake of their first game called Rainblood: Town of Death. There are 4 games in this series with the current one being Phantom Blade Executioners. The main character for this series is named Soul.
@@dieptrieu6564 ya they did not handle the 4th game very well and failed to provide reasons for players to keep playing long term wise. Still if this game does well, it would be best if they refocus their development on remaking the 2nd and 3rd game then maybe remake the 4th game so they can tell the story of the 4th game properly this time. If they remake the 2nd and 3rd game, I am curious how will they handle Zuo Shang and Mu Xiaokui as playable characters.
If this game and Black Myth Wukong turn out to be great, I think we are going to experience a tsunami of well made gaming masterpieces by Chinese developers that were made for global market. A lot of things produced in China by Chinese companies use to stay in China, but it seems like many of their huge companies are going global. Just look at the car industry, in my country for example, you can already find chinese car brands that truth to be told offer the same amount of quality as VW or Toyota, but for a huge 30% - 40% less money than German and Japanese counterparts. If you think of it rationaly, it's not surprising really, they have the manpower and money. Honestly, games from China might just be the next refreshing thing to happen to revitalize the current state of gaming.
@@BrandonweifuYour comparing apples to oranges, completely different games. Just because you act correct doesn't mean you are Brandon. Also Stellar blade did great sales wise so no matter what way you look at it little Mr.Brandon is wrong 🥺
THANK YOU, i'm so tired of people thinking everything is a soulslike nowadays (granted there are a lot recently, but don't just assume!) just because it has slashing, parrying and dodging. Soulslikes have a certain rhythm and methodological strategy to their mechanics that characgter action games don't. The gameplay for this looks so fun and the animations are so polished. I'm sooo looking forward to this, wukong, lost soul aside, and stellar blade's PC release. New AAA games coming from China and Korea look all so promising, definitely a lot of untapped potential from these new AAA studios when we've only typically have only experienced AAA games out of the US/Japan and a few EU countries
FINALLY, a Ninja Gaiden-like game, with MGR inspiration. As someone who has personally not invested in any of the 'Souls-like' games, this is a welcome surprise. I'm so happy we get more traditional action games like this and Ghost of Tsushima.
9:50 Blood Dripping Dagger, also known as "Xue Di Zi" in Chinese, is a legendary weapon from ancient China. It is said to be a small, concealed weapon that was used for assassinations and was particularly favored by the Qing Dynasty's secret police. The weapon is often depicted as a small, sharp, and sometimes venom-coated blade that could be concealed in the sleeve and used to strike quickly and unexpectedly. It's important to note that the Blood Dripping Dagger is more of a cultural artifact in wuxia (martial heroes) novels and films rather than a historically verified weapon.
The last boss in this demo looks to be using the weapon from the old Flying Guillotine kung fu movies. Basically, it's a cage-like device with blades on it attached to a chain or rope, and he flings it out to try and get it to latch onto your head and then decapitate you.
Blood Dripping Dagger, also known as "Xue Di Zi" in Chinese, is a legendary weapon from ancient China. It is said to be a small, concealed weapon that was used for assassinations and was particularly favored by the Qing Dynasty's secret police. The weapon is often depicted as a small, sharp, and sometimes venom-coated blade that could be concealed in the sleeve and used to strike quickly and unexpectedly. It's important to note that the Blood Dripping Dagger is more of a cultural artifact in wuxia (martial heroes) novels and films rather than a historically verified weapon.
@@喵队长 The Guillotine Blood，chinsese is 血滴子。During the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's special assassination organization used a unique weapon, which was said to be able to take the enemy's head from 10 meters away. But after the emperor asked the organization to kill all the people, he chose to hide the organization. Some people say that they were killed, so the weapon was lost. The shape in the game is the general appearance of our Chinese martial arts.
Phantom Balde looks fantastic! I am really glad that we're going back to a more traditional action style. I love Soul's games, but I feel like it unnecessarily killed this style of game. Glad to see it making a comeback.
It's crazy how many people don't understand a souls-like has to specifically have an XP point system that you can lose on death and regain in the next run/try. Or am I wrong, idk I thought that was the "Souls" part.
@@drwsldno you’re 100% right I think it’s a combination of that and the slower paced hit & roll action combat but many studios are innovating on that base formula and making it more flashy and fast paced which seems to confuse a lot of people on what genre the game actually is because it can appear like a souls like at first glance but plays completely different!
Man. When that music for boss “Huangxing” came in I was like “damn…” but then it had a fuckin hip hop 808 beat switch in the middle boyyyy my stank face was STANKIN
Upon seeing gameplay and hearing Max describe this game, it sounds and looks like those older action games like Ninja Gaiden specifically but with FromSoft level design. Hopefully they can land this and it becomes a solid release because what floors me is all of the animation quality with this game even in this state.
That was my thought...but not many people know about the flying guillotine. Would be sick if that boss had an insta-kill animation with it (which it does look like there might be since he sends it spinning up top before crashing down, it was just dodged each time).
@@wraithalconYes it does, when he throughs the weapon up, there’s a little tornado indicating where it lands. If you didn’t dodge the attack, it insta kills and decapitates you.
This game went from "Probably gonna be vaporware and never come out." to "Oh it's actually coming? Oh what that gameplay reveal wasn't cap!?" Wallruns?"
more action combat is needed now more than ever. also when i think of Ninja Gaiden 2 i think of incredible combat and camera angles along with enemies all attacking at once.
I am crazy excited for this. These Chinese and Korean devs are cooking lately, I hope this delivers. This and Where Winds Meet are two of my most anticipated upcoming games
Where the wind meets unfortunately has been reported by many testers to be severely disappointing. The character power progress hits massive wall in the middle of your journey that requires unreasonable amount of grinding to break. While it is not plagued by too much microtransactions, the game definitely aims to maximise players online time count. Other issues also rampant such as diverse but meaningless combat mechanics, monotonous and repetitive quests that offers little rewards. The fact that the developers spoke the words: "the game CAN be experienced like a single player campaign" somewhat tells you this is through and through a mobile on-line game at its core.
This looks so fucking cool. Glad that they want to have good map design from souls games, and have it be a character action game, it’s too fun to not press buttons, have cool animations, and have players express a sense of style in their combat.
it’s got my interest just because of the flying guillotine, such a fun kung fu movie weapon. the city i live in has a theater where they play old kung fu and Shaw Brothers movies from time to time and anything staring ninjas or flying guillotines are a absolute blast! i’m happy to hear it’s more like Ninja Gaiden then Dark Souls and seemingly has difficulty settings, i don’t mind challenging bosses but any boss that asks me to spend more then an hour trying to kill it is just wasting my time, we only live once and unless i am a professional streamer like Max i neither can nor want to spend my whole day playing video games believe it or not.
Back when i was growing up there was always 2 dreams i had that i could never fulfil. 1 I wanted to go to E3 to play demo's for games and experience the conferences in person and 2 i wanted to go to Japan to visit the arcades and go to Magical Mirai, hopefully i'll still be able to achieve that last one someday :)
Omg!! This vid and Max’s description has completely sold me! When he said Ninja Gaiden/DMC/MGR like with Souls level design I actually said oooohhhh out loud.
The game director is literally me- I'm impressed by Souls Level designs but god do I wish their combat was more engaging with more of the complexity of an Character Action game.
@@Chaos2Frozen I ain't gonna argue about the broadness of genres, All I'm saying is... If you want more flavor to the combat with a soulslike game, Sekiro is your go to, my guy
@@Mishiman69 I played Sekiro and completed it. After the few hours you kinda realize what the game is about and it's really quite limiting. If you saw Max's opinion on Sekiro a few years back it's kinda the same as how I felt.
@@Chaos2Frozen I feel like you can say the same thing about phantom blade when you play it, at least from what I've seen so far, Like it looks like it's gonna be a solid game where you look cool fighting and it's the same thing with Sekiro for me, But that's just me running my mouth, Gotta actually try it out first
I'm SO GLAD IT ISN'T A SOULS-LIKE GAME!!! There have been way too many and I want to go back to the good old action days of DMC, Ninja Gaiden, etc., so hearing this made me have a big sigh of relief. Wo Long was pretty interesting to me, at first, but some things I wasn';t too crazy about. But I love the later Ninja Gaiden games (specifically Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2)!
This is one of the "Oh shit" moment when the first time you saw the game reveal trailer , it looked Too Good to be True and you thought it ain't gonna be like that but suddenly it is actually REAL
This looks awesome and I can't wait to get my hands on it! I am a "character action" conisseur too so definitely feeling those MGR, DMC and Ninja Gaiden vibes but classics like Godhand come to mind as well. Does anyone here remember a PS2 action game called "Bujingai: The Forsaken City"? It reminds me a lot of that too - especially the parry dances! Black Myth Wukong should scratch that itch until Phantom Blade Zero comes out amongst other titles both old and new whilst we wait! 😁
man, the revelations of difficulty levels and not a soulslike game makes me so happy not because I want to play it on easy (I usually play it action games with difficulty settings on the hardest settings) but because a lot of games trying to ape off the fromsoft formula make the difficulty so bullshit that it becomes infuriating. the surge was a big example of that but the sequel was a step up
So glad the combat isn't Souls like. I could never get into any ot them because I grew up playing games like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden. I will be getting this and Black Myth Wukong for sure!
Yep definitely those I those aspects have always been lacking in those games to me. This game fixes those aspects by replacing them other far better aspects from other games. To me its taking the best things from each of the games that inspire it and combining them into one incredible game.
Im really waiting for this Lost soul aside ,Myth of Wu Kong, and Db sparking Zero and also where winds meet they all got my interest cant wait and i hope they're great
By the looks of it this game seems to have improved some aspects that have always been lacking in souls games to me. The game fixes those aspects by replacing them other far better aspects from other kinds of action games. To me its taking the best things from each of the games that inspire it and combining them into one incredible game.
Knew I wanted this game since last year from the first showing, A really dope mash up of all the blade combat games that matter rolled into one. As I type that, it really feels like a generic description. But the more I look at this game is the more I actually see elements of all of the blade combat action games that matter. I love it here and I will be buying at full price on day one.
Obviously I’ll still have to play this to really tell, but I’m not seeing the Ninja Gaiden comparisons here, as someone who’s played the NG games for well over a decade now. Crowd control is the very essence or thesis of Ninja Gaiden, where control in a 3D space is crucial, as well as chaining together multiple different moves, and interacting with environments such as walls, utilizing your Ninpo at the right time, and juggling highly aggressive enemies to eventually enter a flow state when all of these pieces click. Even in Ninja Gaiden Black/Sigma, (the first 3D game) where combat is at its slowest compared to NG2 and 3, the gameplay was still much faster and frenetic than what’s been shown here. This looks really cool as a video game, but it’s not giving me Ninja Gaiden vibes, personally!
All you had said is perfectly accurate as a ninja gaiden veteran , I hope they add on every difficulty the minion change and the boss attack pattern change also , I guess it's too hard ask so much.
It is trailer so I though they make it easy mode for everyone can play it. If you can play Ninja Gaiden you are quite good with action game but look at some guys like IGN, they died more than 3 times by final boss. If they put hard mode like Ninja Gaiden, I believe they will receive negative reviews. So make it easy first.
I kinda agree with you. To me, the biggest indicator is that the camera seems over-the-shoulder third person. A character action game should give a wide shot of the action, so you can cover all your angles. I thoroughly enjoyed the Nioh games. They could be fast-paced, but also had behind-the-shoulder camera, so we'll see.
Yay I am happy things r going this direction. I am a fan of everything in souls-like games. The art, levels, lore all of it but I can't play them bc I don't like the combat and death recovery thing. I hope more like this come out.
I've seen that weapon the last boss kept throwing in a kungfu film whos name I can't remember. When it lands on your head it would then cut it off and the guy would yank the weapon back to himself with the head inside. I wanted to see it land and see if it would have done that to him. Game looks great.
Art direction and attention to detail is remarkable in this game. It looks like every bit of debris, spiderwebs in the rafters, puddles, etc is meticulously placed to build atmosphere. Sure LOOKS like it should be amazing.
I was also skeptical but knowing that this is more of a dmc, mgr, style of game that for sure helps the doubt I had when it was first revealed. I wonder how different all the weapons are and how many there are, because I assume most of the weapons will be earned from bosses like how there was the larger sword in the last fight from the previous boss.
Ya know this may be the first types of souls like game I might buy mainly because it's straight forward to the fighting. The last boss music goes really hard
Cool boss battle i would like to see more use of the environments in battle like jumping off walls or interacting with it to cause more damage to an enemy .
The recipe sounds great. The hitboxes and how hits feel and look is a bit weird. But a dmc/ng with souls level design is my kinda thing. Also, the designs look good, too. Hope they don't mess it up. Edit: thank you for moving your face out of the way max 👍.
"Director is not a fan of Soulslike combat. He is a fan of MGR, DMC, and Ninja Gaiden." The director has the same taste I do in character action games. This game has now my complete and full attention.
Director is a true man of culture.
Amen brother
As someone who believes fromsoft is one of the best videogame developer in the industry today, I also do think souls combat is mediocre outside of bloodborne and sekiro. He's spot on about the level design and exploration of the souls games being the core appeal of it.
Bayonetta deserves some love too, Hopefully there's a remake in the future
There was a line from a interview of the director I watched before: "Traditional ACT games has complex combat but simple level/environmental design, while the souls game has complex level design but simplified combat. What we want is both complex enough combat and complex enough level design"
I really enjoyed this one, it was great meeting you man.
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The fact that enemies have custom animations for how they parry YOUR attacks is insane attention to combat detail. Definitely have my attention on this game
Talk about speaking to your base for your hands on impressions. PD gameplay and Expedition 33 announcement were the most surprising
Expedition 33 looks awesome i hope it is actually good tho
Most excited for Expedition 33, looks great.
I love turn based combat I hope it's as good as it looks
Don't forget da killa bean
Expedition 33 looked SO INTERESTING. For some reason, it kind of brought me back to the time when Blue Dragon was coming out on the Xbox 360 as like the first Japanese-based RPG to release on an Xbox console...but it also reminds me a bit of Legend of Dragoon / Legaia with the button prompts. I was highly impressed with seeing it.
A lotta “this game isn’t real” people ate their words last weekend. It’s crazy how studios like S-Game and Shift Up went from gacha games to making badass action games like Phantom Blade 0 & Stellar Blade
Game studio's version of " if he wanted to he would"😂
Kenny was right. Holy shit.
what did kenny say?
@@Albertmars32holy shit
@@bamiyamoto8187 exactly imao
Kendrick lamar?
I love that devs that made mobile games are entering the console space with amazing looking games. First stellar blade and now this, it's really incredible.
I guess all the money being made from gacha is finally being put into good use
Yup bleed the gamblers and make cool games for the non addicted lol.
@@nelieltu9730 works for me. If the end result is I can get a really cool looking action adventure game made by the creators of candy crush ill be happy 😂
Mentions Fromsoft level design - Ok, seems neat.
Mention of Director loving MGR, NG, and DMC games - Now I'm interested
Gameplay shown - fck this shit, instant buy.
This game looks sicker every time I see something from it. Holy crap it feels like it has massive potential.
Keep in mind this is a remake of their first game called Rainblood: Town of Death.
There are 4 games in this series with the current one being Phantom Blade Executioners.
The main character for this series is named Soul.
Been waiting for Executioners to drop on consoles for like a year now lol
Woah thank you for sharing this, had no idea.
@@SolidSnake240 That game is already dead in China. Don't know how long the global version can last
Better call Soul
@@dieptrieu6564 ya they did not handle the 4th game very well and failed to provide reasons for players to keep playing long term wise.
Still if this game does well, it would be best if they refocus their development on remaking the 2nd and 3rd game then maybe remake the 4th game so they can tell the story of the 4th game properly this time.
If they remake the 2nd and 3rd game, I am curious how will they handle Zuo Shang and Mu Xiaokui as playable characters.
Final boss stage music is so good
Eastern instrument played in the western way
The protagonist looks incredibly cool. Great silhouette.
One of the coolest character designs I've ever seen
Looks like an op lone wanderer of the jianghu
@@AiricPhetasa Line wanderer of the Jianghu?
If this game and Black Myth Wukong turn out to be great, I think we are going to experience a tsunami of well made gaming masterpieces by Chinese developers that were made for global market. A lot of things produced in China by Chinese companies use to stay in China, but it seems like many of their huge companies are going global. Just look at the car industry, in my country for example, you can already find chinese car brands that truth to be told offer the same amount of quality as VW or Toyota, but for a huge 30% - 40% less money than German and Japanese counterparts. If you think of it rationaly, it's not surprising really, they have the manpower and money. Honestly, games from China might just be the next refreshing thing to happen to revitalize the current state of gaming.
@@Brandonweifu Stellar Blade is from South Korea bruh
I’m kinda shocked at how talented Chinese developers are. I wish their main investment wasn’t mobile games
@@BrandonweifuYour comparing apples to oranges, completely different games. Just because you act correct doesn't mean you are Brandon.
Also Stellar blade did great sales wise so no matter what way you look at it little Mr.Brandon is wrong 🥺
Chinese hero project look it up. Sony is way ahead of you
@@Brandonweifudid you play stellar blade? Doesn't sound like you did
"It's not Soulslike" - sold
Souls like is the best genre
@@KizWhalifa. Shut up.
THANK YOU, i'm so tired of people thinking everything is a soulslike nowadays (granted there are a lot recently, but don't just assume!) just because it has slashing, parrying and dodging. Soulslikes have a certain rhythm and methodological strategy to their mechanics that characgter action games don't. The gameplay for this looks so fun and the animations are so polished. I'm sooo looking forward to this, wukong, lost soul aside, and stellar blade's PC release. New AAA games coming from China and Korea look all so promising, definitely a lot of untapped potential from these new AAA studios when we've only typically have only experienced AAA games out of the US/Japan and a few EU countries
FINALLY, a Ninja Gaiden-like game, with MGR inspiration. As someone who has personally not invested in any of the 'Souls-like' games, this is a welcome surprise. I'm so happy we get more traditional action games like this and Ghost of Tsushima.
9:50 Blood Dripping Dagger, also known as "Xue Di Zi" in Chinese, is a legendary weapon from ancient China. It is said to be a small, concealed weapon that was used for assassinations and was particularly favored by the Qing Dynasty's secret police. The weapon is often depicted as a small, sharp, and sometimes venom-coated blade that could be concealed in the sleeve and used to strike quickly and unexpectedly. It's important to note that the Blood Dripping Dagger is more of a cultural artifact in wuxia (martial heroes) novels and films rather than a historically verified weapon.
The last boss in this demo looks to be using the weapon from the old Flying Guillotine kung fu movies. Basically, it's a cage-like device with blades on it attached to a chain or rope, and he flings it out to try and get it to latch onto your head and then decapitate you.
Fred Sanford on Boondocks had the flying guillotine too 😆
Blood Dripping Dagger, also known as "Xue Di Zi" in Chinese, is a legendary weapon from ancient China. It is said to be a small, concealed weapon that was used for assassinations and was particularly favored by the Qing Dynasty's secret police. The weapon is often depicted as a small, sharp, and sometimes venom-coated blade that could be concealed in the sleeve and used to strike quickly and unexpectedly. It's important to note that the Blood Dripping Dagger is more of a cultural artifact in wuxia (martial heroes) novels and films rather than a historically verified weapon.
@@喵队长 The Guillotine Blood，chinsese is 血滴子。During the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's special assassination organization used a unique weapon, which was said to be able to take the enemy's head from 10 meters away. But after the emperor asked the organization to kill all the people, he chose to hide the organization. Some people say that they were killed, so the weapon was lost. The shape in the game is the general appearance of our Chinese martial arts.
Phantom Balde looks fantastic! I am really glad that we're going back to a more traditional action style. I love Soul's games, but I feel like it unnecessarily killed this style of game. Glad to see it making a comeback.
In my mind I’ve already bought this.
This and Wukong already waiting to be downloaded lol
Those two and The Perceiver.
@@c0wboys4life you know dis 🤣
So real
I already platinum this. In my head
Are we so far gone that we forgot the term "hack and slash game" because everyone tries to make soulslikes
fr!
It was funny watching Pats stream and seeing chat go “this is fake, this looks bad” then changed to “this looks amazing” at the end
Glad to hear it's not a soulslike, I've had enough and been needing that old action game feel again.
Dev; “mg rising influences”, Me; *inserts ‘take my money’ meme!
Oh thank god. Everything is ‘souls-like’. Max says: Revengeance. Max says: Ninja Gaiden. I’m in. So in.
Hype the video get all the coverage for these guys Max!! We need this game
Thank you, Max, for STRESSING THIS!!! Phantom Blade Zero is NOT a Souls-style game!!! 😆😄🤩
Facts!!!
Finally!
Fr. Had people trying to argue with me over this when even the founder of the studio said that it isn't a Souls like.
It's crazy how many people don't understand a souls-like has to specifically have an XP point system that you can lose on death and regain in the next run/try. Or am I wrong, idk I thought that was the "Souls" part.
@@drwsldno you’re 100% right I think it’s a combination of that and the slower paced hit & roll action combat but many studios are innovating on that base formula and making it more flashy and fast paced which seems to confuse a lot of people on what genre the game actually is because it can appear like a souls like at first glance but plays completely different!
That boss music had no business going that hard.
Man. When that music for boss “Huangxing” came in I was like “damn…” but then it had a fuckin hip hop 808 beat switch in the middle boyyyy my stank face was STANKIN
Aye fr bro lol
Whoooooooo me tooooo!
Eastern instrument but western vibe
Dev said it's called Kung Fu Punk
Music was awesome on that last boss just kept getting better
Upon seeing gameplay and hearing Max describe this game, it sounds and looks like those older action games like Ninja Gaiden specifically but with FromSoft level design. Hopefully they can land this and it becomes a solid release because what floors me is all of the animation quality with this game even in this state.
9:42 Can we please talk about the flying guillotine ? Why is nobody talking about the flying guillotine?
That was my thought...but not many people know about the flying guillotine. Would be sick if that boss had an insta-kill animation with it (which it does look like there might be since he sends it spinning up top before crashing down, it was just dodged each time).
Watch IGN fight this boss. They died a lot by the flying guillotine. It's fun to watch them die with cool insta-kill animation
I guess not many people are familiar with the old wuxia stories lol
Fred G. Sanford knows a lot about the flying guillotine 😆
@@wraithalconYes it does, when he throughs the weapon up, there’s a little tornado indicating where it lands. If you didn’t dodge the attack, it insta kills and decapitates you.
The dynamic music is so sick
This game went from "Probably gonna be vaporware and never come out." to "Oh it's actually coming? Oh what that gameplay reveal wasn't cap!?" Wallruns?"
This game is more interesting than the entire Xbox showcase
9:49 the music is super cool
more action combat is needed now more than ever. also when i think of Ninja Gaiden 2 i think of incredible combat and camera angles along with enemies all attacking at once.
I am crazy excited for this. These Chinese and Korean devs are cooking lately, I hope this delivers. This and Where Winds Meet are two of my most anticipated upcoming games
Where the wind meets unfortunately has been reported by many testers to be severely disappointing. The character power progress hits massive wall in the middle of your journey that requires unreasonable amount of grinding to break. While it is not plagued by too much microtransactions, the game definitely aims to maximise players online time count.
Other issues also rampant such as diverse but meaningless combat mechanics, monotonous and repetitive quests that offers little rewards.
The fact that the developers spoke the words: "the game CAN be experienced like a single player campaign" somewhat tells you this is through and through a mobile on-line game at its core.
trust me ，the where winds meet is absolute a shit
Get outta here snoopy @@nihaozaijian-p2c
Can't stress enough how glad I was to hear that the levels will not be like in Nioh, and like in Souls instead. Thank you, Max. I'm sold.
I'm liking the mix of technology in there. The arm cannon looked fun to mess with.
This looks so fucking cool. Glad that they want to have good map design from souls games, and have it be a character action game, it’s too fun to not press buttons, have cool animations, and have players express a sense of style in their combat.
The animations for this Game are Some of the Best i ve EVER SEEN.
This and Stellar Blade in the same year! Lucky us
Unfortunately this is next year, wish it was this year
2027
The way the characters flourish when attacks clash reminds me alot of Bujingai when attacks clash in that game, looks really cool.
I just might get this game for the music alone. Holy hell!
So "3D Metroidvania." I'm IN!
it’s got my interest just because of the flying guillotine, such a fun kung fu movie weapon. the city i live in has a theater where they play old kung fu and Shaw Brothers movies from time to time and anything staring ninjas or flying guillotines are a absolute blast!
i’m happy to hear it’s more like Ninja Gaiden then Dark Souls and seemingly has difficulty settings, i don’t mind challenging bosses but any boss that asks me to spend more then an hour trying to kill it is just wasting my time, we only live once and unless i am a professional streamer like Max i neither can nor want to spend my whole day playing video games believe it or not.
Don't worry, good pacing is just as valuable to an experience. So challenge isn't always worth getting stuck to the point of losing momentum.
That boss music was awesome wow
Back when i was growing up there was always 2 dreams i had that i could never fulfil. 1 I wanted to go to E3 to play demo's for games and experience the conferences in person and 2 i wanted to go to Japan to visit the arcades and go to Magical Mirai, hopefully i'll still be able to achieve that last one someday :)
Raiden would cook ngl
Raiden Skin DLC
Omg!! This vid and Max’s description has completely sold me! When he said Ninja Gaiden/DMC/MGR like with Souls level design I actually said oooohhhh out loud.
Phantom Blade Zero and Black Myth Sunwukong gonna take the gaming industry by storm
Very interesting
The game director is literally me- I'm impressed by Souls Level designs but god do I wish their combat was more engaging with more of the complexity of an Character Action game.
I mean Sekiro exists
@@Mishiman69 ...Sekiro is definitely not a Character Action game style combat.
@@Chaos2Frozen I ain't gonna argue about the broadness of genres, All I'm saying is... If you want more flavor to the combat with a soulslike game, Sekiro is your go to, my guy
@@Mishiman69 I played Sekiro and completed it. After the few hours you kinda realize what the game is about and it's really quite limiting. If you saw Max's opinion on Sekiro a few years back it's kinda the same as how I felt.
@@Chaos2Frozen I feel like you can say the same thing about phantom blade when you play it, at least from what I've seen so far, Like it looks like it's gonna be a solid game where you look cool fighting and it's the same thing with Sekiro for me, But that's just me running my mouth, Gotta actually try it out first
im so down for this
I'm SO GLAD IT ISN'T A SOULS-LIKE GAME!!! There have been way too many and I want to go back to the good old action days of DMC, Ninja Gaiden, etc., so hearing this made me have a big sigh of relief. Wo Long was pretty interesting to me, at first, but some things I wasn';t too crazy about. But I love the later Ninja Gaiden games (specifically Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2)!
This is one of the "Oh shit" moment when the first time you saw the game reveal trailer , it looked Too Good to be True and you thought it ain't gonna be like that but suddenly it is actually REAL
music is insane in this game
This looks awesome and I can't wait to get my hands on it! I am a "character action" conisseur too so definitely feeling those MGR, DMC and Ninja Gaiden vibes but classics like Godhand come to mind as well. Does anyone here remember a PS2 action game called "Bujingai: The Forsaken City"? It reminds me a lot of that too - especially the parry dances! Black Myth Wukong should scratch that itch until Phantom Blade Zero comes out amongst other titles both old and new whilst we wait! 😁
This may be the most satisfying looking gameplay I've seen in my life.
man, the revelations of difficulty levels and not a soulslike game makes me so happy
not because I want to play it on easy (I usually play it action games with difficulty settings on the hardest settings) but because a lot of games trying to ape off the fromsoft formula make the difficulty so bullshit that it becomes infuriating.
the surge was a big example of that but the sequel was a step up
This, Expedition 33, ans Doom are my most awaited
So glad the combat isn't Souls like. I could never get into any ot them because I grew up playing games like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden. I will be getting this and Black Myth Wukong for sure!
Soul has a lot of costume in PB Executioners, i hope they will include some 🤞
I got the best kind of chills while watching this.
a DMC/Ninja Gaiden with Souls level design sounds AMAZING. Definitely gonna keep my eye on this game.
It's the music and combat that makes this look better than any souls like game for me .
Sekiro still has the best combat ever.
Play Nioh then, it might have something worthy for you in terms of combat
Yep definitely those I those aspects have always been lacking in those games to me. This game fixes those aspects by replacing them other far better aspects from other games. To me its taking the best things from each of the games that inspire it and combining them into one incredible game.
Get gud lil bro
@@Ohbas888 So if they want a faster-paced, more action-oriented game...That means they're bad at the other one?
This game looks amazing!, the combat is so fast!
Combat reminds me of Bujingai: The Forsaken City (PS2) I loved that game.
My rough take on the trailer was MGR:R style combat more than Souls and I'm quite pleased that's the case. I'm definitely interested now!
The description of the gameplay had my curiosity, but the boss with a flying guillotine had my attention.
That music hits!
Im really waiting for this Lost soul aside ,Myth of Wu Kong, and Db sparking Zero and also where winds meet they all got my interest cant wait and i hope they're great
By the looks of it this game seems to have improved some aspects that have always been lacking in souls games to me. The game fixes those aspects by replacing them other far better aspects from other kinds of action games. To me its taking the best things from each of the games that inspire it and combining them into one incredible game.
Knew I wanted this game since last year from the first showing, A really dope mash up of all the blade combat games that matter rolled into one. As I type that, it really feels like a generic description. But the more I look at this game is the more I actually see elements of all of the blade combat action games that matter. I love it here and I will be buying at full price on day one.
sounds sick, happy its a character action game
Obviously I’ll still have to play this to really tell, but I’m not seeing the Ninja Gaiden comparisons here, as someone who’s played the NG games for well over a decade now.
Crowd control is the very essence or thesis of Ninja Gaiden, where control in a 3D space is crucial, as well as chaining together multiple different moves, and interacting with environments such as walls, utilizing your Ninpo at the right time, and juggling highly aggressive enemies to eventually enter a flow state when all of these pieces click. Even in Ninja Gaiden Black/Sigma, (the first 3D game) where combat is at its slowest compared to NG2 and 3, the gameplay was still much faster and frenetic than what’s been shown here.
This looks really cool as a video game, but it’s not giving me Ninja Gaiden vibes, personally!
All you had said is perfectly accurate as a ninja gaiden veteran , I hope they add on every difficulty the minion change and the boss attack pattern change also , I guess it's too hard ask so much.
It is trailer so I though they make it easy mode for everyone can play it. If you can play Ninja Gaiden you are quite good with action game but look at some guys like IGN, they died more than 3 times by final boss. If they put hard mode like Ninja Gaiden, I believe they will receive negative reviews. So make it easy first.
Yea, all I'm seeing is very very loose souls combat with not a lot of impact.
I kinda agree with you. To me, the biggest indicator is that the camera seems over-the-shoulder third person. A character action game should give a wide shot of the action, so you can cover all your angles.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Nioh games. They could be fast-paced, but also had behind-the-shoulder camera, so we'll see.
Looks cool
Yea it looks cool
I'm like the director, i like level design, i don't like combat in souls
I want this game !
I love souls like games but I also love Devil May Cry games, so the combat of DMC on SL levels? Sounds like a match made in heaven
it doesnt look like a dmc combat
Of course it is not a Soulslike, fucking people calls everything 3rd person a soulslike. I'm tired of that fucking word.
Me too
I'm excited for devs to explore non-Souls combat systems again.
It feels like it's dominated the action genre for a very long time now.
Guys, do you remember a game on PS2 called Bujingai? I getting the same vibes
The music sounds incredible
the sound design is awesome
Casually pulls out Nightmare beta from DMC1.
I feel these types of games are more set up to succeed now that we're kinda in a post-souls world
Starts the play through with “It feels like Ninja Gaiden.” That’s all I need, I’m in 😅
The only thing this game is missing for me is some air combos. Otherwise i am very interested in checking it out on release
Yay I am happy things r going this direction. I am a fan of everything in souls-like games. The art, levels, lore all of it but I can't play them bc I don't like the combat and death recovery thing. I hope more like this come out.
Videogame *has a dodge button*
Twelve different gaming news outlets "omg new soulslike!"
I've seen that weapon the last boss kept throwing in a kungfu film whos name I can't remember. When it lands on your head it would then cut it off and the guy would yank the weapon back to himself with the head inside. I wanted to see it land and see if it would have done that to him. Game looks great.
The live gameplay demo with IGN shows the death animation for the flying guillotine
这把武器叫做血滴子
the music is sick!!
Art direction and attention to detail is remarkable in this game. It looks like every bit of debris, spiderwebs in the rafters, puddles, etc is meticulously placed to build atmosphere. Sure LOOKS like it should be amazing.
I was also skeptical but knowing that this is more of a dmc, mgr, style of game that for sure helps the doubt I had when it was first revealed. I wonder how different all the weapons are and how many there are, because I assume most of the weapons will be earned from bosses like how there was the larger sword in the last fight from the previous boss.
You had me at "its more like Ninja Gaiden..."
Ya know this may be the first types of souls like game I might buy mainly because it's straight forward to the fighting.
The last boss music goes really hard
Okay this looks sick
Damn that boss fight music at the end is fire. I'm so tired of these big orchestral scores after getting 100% in Elden Ring lol.
Cool boss battle i would like to see more use of the environments in battle like jumping off walls or interacting with it to cause more damage to an enemy .
The recipe sounds great. The hitboxes and how hits feel and look is a bit weird.
But a dmc/ng with souls level design is my kinda thing.
Also, the designs look good, too. Hope they don't mess it up.
Edit: thank you for moving your face out of the way max 👍.