| Kyuu said: 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. |
It was one of the games that stood out to me from the last showcase. I remember a fair amount of skepticism around it too. People weren't sure whether that gameplay was real or not.
I wonder who Sony would even consider acquiring from China/Korea. Shift Up is really the only one that comes to mind with their mobile/console gaming presence. But it would cost a few billion, and at that point, they might as well grab an actual publisher like Square lol.
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