Phantom Blade Zero is an upcoming PS5 and PC action-RPG that made waves at a 2023 PlayStation Showcase thanks to its spectacular fight and placing darkish fantasy aesthetic. In a latest interview, the director of the game–known by the moniker “Soulframe”– in contrast its map and degree design to the pre-Elden Ring Dark Souls video games, although he pressured that it isn’t a “Souls-like.”
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“It is identical to the outdated Souls video games,” Soulframe instructed GamesRadar. “You progress round and discover in a seamless map, it is simply not an enormous open-world map. However each area is related collectively seamlessly…There are particular gates requiring keys, and the keys are obtained from some missions. There’s nonetheless some course of you undergo, nevertheless it’s non-linear. There are all the time a number of paths you possibly can undergo. It is identical to the Souls video games earlier than Elden Ring.”
Dark Souls 1 specifically is commonly praised for its extremely interconnected world design, the place gamers can select to take quite a lot of paths by way of Lordran–provided that they are expert sufficient to take care of the tough enemies, in fact. Based mostly on the trailers we have seen, Phantom Blade Zero has fluid, propulsive fight comparable to what you may see within the Ninja Gaiden video games. It additionally may remind you of Koei Tecmo’s Nioh collection, or 2024 launch Rise of the Ronin. Phantom Blade Zero would not have a launch date but, however we do know {that a} 30-minute playable demo is on the best way someday in 2024.