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[Kyuu]

PotentHerbs said:

Phantom Blade Zero looks incredible.

For all the talk about Sony focusing their efforts on live service, the China Hero Project has been a major success for them, not only in discovering new talent, but growing the PlayStation brand in China. It will be interesting to see what else comes out from this initiative.

Announcement trailer looked sick. Gameplay reveal was underwhelming to me, but the game kept looking better with every new video. I'm excited now.

Sony is partly funding, marketing, and helping with the development, but the game isn't part of their China Hero Project. It's a closer situation to the Korean Project Eve (Stellar Blade) except Phantom Blade was already backed by Tencent before Sony's limited involvement.

China is just built different. The huge successes of Wukong and console-tier gacha games are sparking a fierce domestic competition that will take the world by storm. Sony should have nabbed a studio or two while they still could. They did try to acquire Leyou but of course Tencent the party-pooper outbid them lol.

Last edited by Kyuu - 5 hours ago