They've been saying for a few years now that they love the level design of souls games but hate the combat. Which hey, me too! So they wanted to combine that level design with combat a bit closer to a character action game. They name drop Ninja Gaiden a lot and I'll say in terms of mechanics this obviously looks nothing like that, but, the speed is def faster than your typical souls game.
@@jeffwolfplays0513The announce trailer kinda has some story elements to it, which was released some time ago. You should check it out if u haven’t already.
The dev director wrote in one of his weibo posts that he was inspirated and encouraged to start phantom blade 0 by black myth wukong trailers. The success of bmw has attracted Lots of money and dev to work on AAA games in China. Watch out for more AAA games pouring out from China in the next few years.
The fight choreographer/action director is Kenji Tanigaki who is train with the Hong Kong stunt team and have works with Donnie Yen many times. Dude have a great resume under his belt so S-Game hire a top tier fight choreographer.
thought there was another Chinese guy? there was an award winning Chinese director or action director, there was a mini documentary like 5 months ago where he talks about it... the guy has like 90s hk chinese movies under his belt.... cant remember the name of the guy though
Choreography is base on Chinese kung fu and martial arts.... very common in Chinese kung fu films, wushu sports .... the flexing of swords in the last part is Chinese wushu swordplay, you see those in shaolin, Wudand, Emei swordplay. Sword play is only one type, there are many more types of weapons
Well ... Wukong feels like monkey (but got map design issues), and Wuchang, while looking less pretty, got all the basics of a slow soulslike. Wukong is also at moments look way brighter due to snowy or mountainy environments with few human structures, as well as well built temples and houses, even though some are used to represent the delusions of some villains. PBZ is way more fast paced and has very few souls elements, has difficulty choices and etc so it's going to play out differently. I'll admit the environments of PBZ and Wuchang might look similar because both have pretty dark themes and feature many destroyed or burnt down villages and temples in China.
Sifu, Hellblade 2, Virtua Fighter 5 and now this... I'm really liking how cinematic and seamless combat sequences in games are becoming. The entire boss fight seemed almost choreographed to the music. Really cool!
@@Lipitakke武侠/Wuxia are more like the Chinese own ancient times “superheroe” genre. The character 侠/Xia is use to describe the good guy and their good samaritan actions.
The composer has done a fair bit of stuff in a similar style combining traditional Chinese instruments with rock, check him out, his name is Caisheng Bo
@ well! No, no Kenshiro nor the Japanese, cause this game is inspired by Chinese Wuxia fictional story world. Style wise, the 90s Hong Kong Wuxia/kungfu movies were also the inspiration as well. For American to understand it more clearly, I believe the 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would be a great example.
Remember this is a remake of their first game called Rainblood town of Death so we only play as Soul. If this does well we may get a remake of the second game called Rainblood City of Flame which introduce 2 other characters to the main character cast.
I love all the discordant strings and the heavy guitar in the boss' theme, since they fight you with strings. I'm so ready for another action game soundtrack to approach MGR's glorious design.
Honestly Max saying he's gonna play revengeance in preparation has me even more excited than the trailer, it's long overdue having him play that again! Game does look really impressive though, I'm curious how much of what is shown is essentially one button press for some of the lengthy animations and how locked into them you are as that will have a big effect on the enjoyment.
I love the old school Kung Fu movie references in this game! The weird jerky movement of the enemies, their glowing blue eyes , and those sound effects reminds me of films like Zu Warriors and A Chinese Ghost Story. I am so excited for this game!!
Holy crap, that movement and interaction.... I haven't felt this grin since seeing MGR for the first time. That first battle was pure asmr visually and audibly.
I don't think I've seen a game with this level of "interactivity" in its combat, where there is a give and take, a performance of sorts, actual clashing and counterplay instead of hitting a punching bag or taking turns in combat.
Okay THIS is the character action game more akin to DMC that I've been waiting for. There's so much of this that's just "what if everything was just cool af?"
Something about the difficulty option, IIRC, according to Easy Allies - when they talked with the dev at TGA and played a new build, they said there is an extreme mode - not hard (hard is available at beginning while this one MIGHT be blocked behind NG+, dev is considering) is not just more health, more damage, etc. but also like the AI learned what you bad at so they will use it more, so no more "pattern", no more of you waiting for them to use something to counter. Like in this video, Max said something about you can either dodge or parry, and it will reward you based on how good you're at it. So I guess the AI will keep track of that and use it to see which skill of the enemy that you're bad at dodging or parrying (or not that good of - like you dodge a little early/late), so the enemy will use that more.
The action design of this game is done by martial arts director Takeshi Furukawa, who also directed the martial arts for Rurouni Kenshin. He learned from Donnie Yen (Jet Li) and can be considered an inheritor of the traditional style of Hong Kong martial arts.
Every time I see this game, the vibe, the speed of the swordplay and the visuals with the main characters hat always makes me think of Vampire Hunter D!
This is so Sekiro and Nioh coded holyyyyy. The animation focus is insane, i thought it would be a scam on release cause the anims looked way too good to be true, but once i saw it in gameplay, holy shit they did it 🥹
So the game is based on their original mobile game (raining blood} storyline, so the protagonist called "Soul" is a top-of-the-top killer from the Assassin group. He was betrayed by his best friend and wife. He almost died and healed himself with forbidden tech but was poisoned, he only had 66 days left, so he decided to fulfill some things he hadn't finished. and the story starts from here, the original game is a kind of sidescroller fighting game plus a bit detective vibe. If you ever read a Chinese Wuxia novel by Gulong, you will know the style, the main protagonist starts as a very powerful guy the story is about wuxia but more like a detective novel, and you will gradually figure out what is hidden behind. The Phantom Blade and their original Raining blood series were all heavily influenced by Gulong's Wuxia novel, so all have a similar vibe. so no worries on the story side guys.
These SoBs took soulslike concepts, gave us ninja gaiden combat, with nioh themes, sekiros rapid parry system, and mixed it with character movement straight out of crouching tiger, THEN added asian metal music? my man, im sold.
This the type of combat I'd imagine in my head as a kid.
I'm pretty sure this is what people think they're seeing when they play Ghost Of Tsushima.
Right? It's the type of combat I imagine now.
After watching them old kung fu movies
I say this game is my dream game because it's the type of combat that I've always wanted to play and see, and this game is doing it and doing it good.
Mine would consist of Dragon Ball Z and Kingdom Hearts type combat
Learning that the dev has said it's not souls like combat was honestly the single thing I needed to sell me on this game.
They've been saying for a few years now that they love the level design of souls games but hate the combat. Which hey, me too! So they wanted to combine that level design with combat a bit closer to a character action game. They name drop Ninja Gaiden a lot and I'll say in terms of mechanics this obviously looks nothing like that, but, the speed is def faster than your typical souls game.
Still not enough for me. I need a story.
@@jeffwolfplays0513The announce trailer kinda has some story elements to it, which was released some time ago. You should check it out if u haven’t already.
@@StephenTheZ I love souls game, but i need action games too, Having this and ninja gaiden this year has me insanely hyped
Seems like they are taking a similar route to what Wukong took. Souls like elements with a faster action game game style combat.
that guitar harmonic or slide or whatever it is during the 2nd phase sounds like an evil laugh. I love it
That whole soundtrack sounds crazy very unique to see that in a chinese game, it almost sounds like a DOOM OST
I believe it's Erhu
er hu
@@consequentlycross-stitchna-r3t yep that's what i think also , similar to the end of horse racing song
Actually it might be Morin khuur
This trailer really blew up. People yearn for hack and slash games
If it's ninja gaiden without the cheap shit I'm sold
It's less hack and slash from prior gameplay it rewards combos and being good at parries and dodging
I yearn for tenchu.😔
@@fernandosepulveda7297same sekiro is close tho
@@fernandosepulveda7297 tenchu is no more! Sony doesnt own it anymore and activision most probably doesnt care and sees no potential in the franchise
This and Ninja Gaiden 4?! Action games are cooking right now
ikr, my wallet is crying right now.
You forgot the remake of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black too
Your assumptions are there actually gona be decent 🤷
Finally. Was getting a little tired of Soulslikes.
COMBOS! Finally, combos!
They learned long time ago that someone playing the game effectively sales it. It shows the possibility of what you could possibly pull off.
Good, tired of journalist gameplay 😂
Tell that to bleach rebirth of souls
The dev director wrote in one of his weibo posts that he was inspirated and encouraged to start phantom blade 0 by black myth wukong trailers. The success of bmw has attracted Lots of money and dev to work on AAA games in China. Watch out for more AAA games pouring out from China in the next few years.
"Not a souls-like combat"
Say no more, I'll take 1.
👍👍
The music that is shown so far in the trailers are fucking awesome. I really hope they release a public demo soon
You can play this at max volume
Check out the composer, Caisheng Bo, this kind of style is all over his work
Max’s face in the thumbnail says everything
The fight choreographer/action director is Kenji Tanigaki who is train with the Hong Kong stunt team and have works with Donnie Yen many times. Dude have a great resume under his belt so S-Game hire a top tier fight choreographer.
Awesome!
thought there was another Chinese guy? there was an award winning Chinese director or action director, there was a mini documentary like 5 months ago where he talks about it... the guy has like 90s hk chinese movies under his belt.... cant remember the name of the guy though
He's the action choreographer for Rurouni Kenshin live action too
Choreography is base on Chinese kung fu and martial arts.... very common in Chinese kung fu films, wushu sports .... the flexing of swords in the last part is Chinese wushu swordplay, you see those in shaolin, Wudand, Emei swordplay. Sword play is only one type, there are many more types of weapons
@@antwangoYuen Woo Ping? That’s Donnie Yen’s mentor
All these Chinese action combat games look nearly identical and I want more of them
Well ... Wukong feels like monkey (but got map design issues), and Wuchang, while looking less pretty, got all the basics of a slow soulslike. Wukong is also at moments look way brighter due to snowy or mountainy environments with few human structures, as well as well built temples and houses, even though some are used to represent the delusions of some villains.
PBZ is way more fast paced and has very few souls elements, has difficulty choices and etc so it's going to play out differently.
I'll admit the environments of PBZ and Wuchang might look similar because both have pretty dark themes and feature many destroyed or burnt down villages and temples in China.
Sifu, Hellblade 2, Virtua Fighter 5 and now this... I'm really liking how cinematic and seamless combat sequences in games are becoming. The entire boss fight seemed almost choreographed to the music. Really cool!
You're in for some major disappointments
the style is Wuxia
Correct. ?I wonder Why do they call similar anime Donghua??
@@305VERSATILE Donghua is Chinese Animation and Wuxia is "chinese medieval" fiction
yeah，wuxia（武侠），wulin（武林），wushu（武术）
@@Lipitakke武侠/Wuxia are more like the Chinese own ancient times “superheroe” genre. The character 侠/Xia is use to describe the good guy and their good samaritan actions.
you mean genre not style !!!!!
I like the presentation of the boss here. In the first phase, he controls the minions. Then at the second phase, The minions controls the boss' body.
The boss can also heal off his minions and also give them health. Very cool.
This game looks like it’ll scratch an itch that a platinum game hasn’t been able to in a while
Okay, I'm sold.
That little spin he did with his sword while USING a sword...
I'm hooked. Sign me up.
This is pretty much a textbook example of games that makes you go "hell yeah".
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The music is crazy I can't wait for more bangers for my playlists XD
The composer has done a fair bit of stuff in a similar style combining traditional Chinese instruments with rock, check him out, his name is Caisheng Bo
1:35 that’s the Big Dipper. 7 stars
Kenshiro is around somewhere going wtttattat
@ well! No, no Kenshiro nor the Japanese, cause this game is inspired by Chinese Wuxia fictional story world. Style wise, the 90s Hong Kong Wuxia/kungfu movies were also the inspiration as well. For American to understand it more clearly, I believe the 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would be a great example.
@@KENSHRIOSGUTS LOL username checks out. The creator of Kenshiro is a huge fan of Chinese martial art.
I was so into the enemy I forgot about how badass the main character really is.
Remember this is a remake of their first game called Rainblood town of Death so we only play as Soul. If this does well we may get a remake of the second game called Rainblood City of Flame which introduce 2 other characters to the main character cast.
Looks like they took inspiration from Hong Kong kungfu movies. The action director is from Donnie Yen's team.
Hearing Max’s laugh of pure joy was everything I needed to know. Will be preordering this game IMMEDIATELY
Holy fuck this is the hardest gameplay and music I've ever experienced, it's actually up there with Metal Gear Rising and Devil May Cry 3
I love all the discordant strings and the heavy guitar in the boss' theme, since they fight you with strings.
I'm so ready for another action game soundtrack to approach MGR's glorious design.
Honestly Max saying he's gonna play revengeance in preparation has me even more excited than the trailer, it's long overdue having him play that again!
Game does look really impressive though, I'm curious how much of what is shown is essentially one button press for some of the lengthy animations and how locked into them you are as that will have a big effect on the enjoyment.
Someones gonna have to mod these guys into the power rangers for me
Drums and violins are going crazy goddamn! Im def excited
NInja Gaiden 4 just dropped their trailer today and you can tell this game is inspired from it. Action single player games are back baby!
We miis action single players games so much. Game companies are finally learning😭 this needs to be a regular thing.
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Remake also dropped today
Onimusha is also coming back!
Back? When did the go away?
I love the old school Kung Fu movie references in this game! The weird jerky movement of the enemies, their glowing blue eyes , and those sound effects reminds me of films like Zu Warriors and A Chinese Ghost Story. I am so excited for this game!!
that second phase music hits everyone the same starting with shock and then pure elation
I gave this trailer a standing ovation.
I think this game is what I wanted Wukong to be. I don't think I've ever seen a game that looks this incredible.
I was SWEATING from how hype this was
This looks freaking AMAZING and the music was unbelievable. I'm looking forward to this game more than any other I've seen in the past year!!!!!!
The boss having elements of wire work choreography like Crouching Tiger is pretty awesome.
The music man in the second phase.
That music is on fire! Great heavy metal song.
Now we need this game 😮
Take my MONEY!! What?!!
U know when max clap and smile he already been sold
Max's exuberant laugh is hysterical
Damn man. The music and gameplay really like Ninja Gaiden.
That 2nd phase straight went to pinata boss😁😁😁
Previous trailers we’ve seen disaturated colors, now there’s sunlight
Holy crap, that movement and interaction.... I haven't felt this grin since seeing MGR for the first time. That first battle was pure asmr visually and audibly.
The fluidity of the moves are so cold!!!!
The Wuxia sfx are insane.
Looks so good, my goodness!
I don't think I've seen a game with this level of "interactivity" in its combat, where there is a give and take, a performance of sorts, actual clashing and counterplay instead of hitting a punching bag or taking turns in combat.
Looks absolutely sick!
Happy Year of The Smoke😤
Okay THIS is the character action game more akin to DMC that I've been waiting for. There's so much of this that's just "what if everything was just cool af?"
Something about the difficulty option, IIRC, according to Easy Allies - when they talked with the dev at TGA and played a new build, they said there is an extreme mode - not hard (hard is available at beginning while this one MIGHT be blocked behind NG+, dev is considering) is not just more health, more damage, etc. but also like the AI learned what you bad at so they will use it more, so no more "pattern", no more of you waiting for them to use something to counter.
Like in this video, Max said something about you can either dodge or parry, and it will reward you based on how good you're at it. So I guess the AI will keep track of that and use it to see which skill of the enemy that you're bad at dodging or parrying (or not that good of - like you dodge a little early/late), so the enemy will use that more.
The action design of this game is done by martial arts director Takeshi Furukawa, who also directed the martial arts for Rurouni Kenshin. He learned from Donnie Yen (Jet Li) and can be considered an
inheritor of the traditional style of Hong Kong martial arts.
Wow 👌 I dont really play much games out of a select few but this had my juices flowing 😂
Am I crazy or were the “seven stars” standing in the shape of Big Dipper at 1:35?
No you're completely right, it's like fist of the north star
是的，北斗七星阵
@@va8157 Yes. The creator of Fist of the North Star is a big fan of Chinese martial art.
Looks AWSOME and the MUSIC IS INSANE👌👌👌
For anyone who don't familiar with Chinese martial art movie. This is sword formation. The blue guy is the core of this sword formation.
Max: It's a reference to MGR
Me: Wow this reminds me of Demon Slayers S1 Spider forest arc
*also trailer*: "Weapon No. 13 Soft Snake Sword" & "Weapon No. 27 White Serpent & Crimson Viper" (Queue *that* Hashira couple from Demon Slayer)
This is an incredible boss fight! Just... wow! :)
4:14 deadly piñata
NG1 on Xbox was PEAK action adventure game period. I'm glad NG is coming back and a dev like this recognizes how good the combat was.
This game just continues to hype me up. Can’t fucking wait!
No stamina bar?
Day one 😎
Well this looks fucking incredible 😂
The weapon demonstration is straight out of Devil May Cry. Anytime Dante gets a new weapon, bro flashes that shit like crazy. Loving this game so far
Every time I see this game, the vibe, the speed of the swordplay and the visuals with the main characters hat always makes me think of Vampire Hunter D!
Praying for 2025 release but most likely is gonna be 2026. It looks AWESOME
This is so Sekiro and Nioh coded holyyyyy. The animation focus is insane, i thought it would be a scam on release cause the anims looked way too good to be true, but once i saw it in gameplay, holy shit they did it 🥹
please stop
Stop it now…
Scratches all my itches. Souls, Elden, Lies of P, DMC, Stellar Blade, Black Myth.
This and Berserker Khazan. 👍🏻
🎯
Koei Tecmo just dropped a trailer for ninja gaiden 4 and ninja gaiden 2 Black 🔥
The music for the second phase is SAAAAAAAVAGE
Was the the actual soundtrack with metal like that? 🔥🔥🔥
4:26 AND THERES THE REVENGEANCE!!! 🤣🤣🤣
This trailer absolutely sold me on the game. I was interested at first but now I NEED IT.
I tuned in live right when you started watching this and was immediately hooked. Now easily my most anticipated game.
I did not expect Wuxia's re-emergence to come in the form of gaming. But it makes perfect sense.
Sold..... I want it like right now
That boss was badass af
2.34 nier automata animation sequence but the flying back animation after the the stab +the rope boss is unique it seems original
8:20 vacant until the new ninja GAIDEN JUST got announced 😭❤️
Hell yeah, I prefer this type of combat over soulslike combat by far
After Wukong, I don't trust anyone saying that a Soulslike plays like a character action game. 😭
Now we wait for the Ninja Gaiden 2 and 4 reactions 😂🙏🏼 it’s a good day
looks insane
Awesome boss fight design
This is what video games supposed to be. Give me something that i can never do in real life.
4:18 excuse me!? That music!
So the game is based on their original mobile game (raining blood} storyline, so the protagonist called "Soul" is a top-of-the-top killer from the Assassin group. He was betrayed by his best friend and wife. He almost died and healed himself with forbidden tech but was poisoned, he only had 66 days left, so he decided to fulfill some things he hadn't finished. and the story starts from here, the original game is a kind of sidescroller fighting game plus a bit detective vibe. If you ever read a Chinese Wuxia novel by Gulong, you will know the style, the main protagonist starts as a very powerful guy the story is about wuxia but more like a detective novel, and you will gradually figure out what is hidden behind. The Phantom Blade and their original Raining blood series were all heavily influenced by Gulong's Wuxia novel, so all have a similar vibe. so no worries on the story side guys.
These SoBs took soulslike concepts, gave us ninja gaiden combat, with nioh themes, sekiros rapid parry system, and mixed it with character movement straight out of crouching tiger, THEN added asian metal music? my man, im sold.
4:18 🤯🎧🤯 - This looks so damn good!
Man that drop with the shamesan at the entrance of the second stage boss entrance was SICK!!! 👍🏿👍🏿
Whatever they are doing with this game:
Let them cook.
Never knew just how much I wanted a Wuxia style martial arts game tile now.
Holy smoke!!! The puppet boss is crazy!!!!
This is MGR on steroids
The finishing blow set up like a monster hunter weapon.
I felt like I was just being a Daxia in the movie and killing the boss. damn, it feels soooooooooooo gooooood.