Phantom Blade Zero

Springbok

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Game looks good, but watched a few reviews and both said it was far too easy and there was no tension at all because mobs don't respawn, bosses with phases don't reset either so you can just grind everything down, die, grind down, die = win. No punishment for dying is weird to me.
 
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Will add it to the deep discount pile a year from now if I have time.
 
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Springbok said:
Game looks good, but watched a few reviews and both said it was far too easy and there was no tension at all because mobs don't respawn, bosses with phases don't reset either so you can just grind everything down, die, grind down, die = win. No punishment for dying is weird to me.
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From what I understand it's more a story based game with an action system on top of it, which is good and gets better as you go, but the promos that might have made it seem like a Wukong / souls like weren't accurate.
 
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spronk

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game launched today, already hitting 700k players before NA even wakes up


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its all chinese players but they still are paying money
 
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Watched Maximillian for a few minutes before I went to work. He was struggling with motion sickness in the game during the traversal / exploration sections. The camera kept doing small adjustments automatically, but against the movement of the character. He said he never experienced it in a souls game, but compared it to the newest Metroidvania Prime which also gave him that issue (but that game was much worse). He couldn't find an option to adjust it.
 
Utnayan

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If you have an AMD card - get Wrecked and wait for patches or drivers.

It's a buggy piece of shit according to the steam discussions. Might be better on console.

Mostly people saying it is slop and better off playing Omi.
 
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Caeden

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Utnayan said:
If you have an AMD card - get Wrecked and wait for patches or drivers.

It's a buggy piece of shit according to the steam discussions. Might be better on console.

Mostly people saying it is slop and better off playing Omi.
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Wasn’t this a PlayStation exclusive turned Pc port? It’s been on my radar but meh. It will have to be discounted to jump ahead of other games.
 
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Utnayan

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Wasn’t this a PlayStation exclusive turned Pc port? It’s been on my radar but meh. It will have to be discounted to jump ahead of other games.
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I am on Final Fantasy Resonance right now, then Zelda OOT, then GTA6. Trying to see if I can finish FF by next weekend - My switch is finally getting some use though
 
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Vorph

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Why is every 'big' Chinese game parryslop? They need to come up with something else to rip off.
 
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Chimney

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I was less interested in this game until I saw that the hardmode bosses can be dynamic and then watched a few gamers I know are decent get stomped for 30+ minutes on some fights.

Thought the game was just a faceroll arpg based on what everyone kept saying.
 
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After sorta doing ghost of Tsushima and Onimusha in the same year, I’m samurai’d out for a bit. Plus every time I play a parry game I need to play two non-parry games.
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I know there are differences. But it looks so similar in the advertisement it's hard to justify a purchase. You have to be a real samurai hound to keep buying these games every 3-4 weeks.

There's one of these out every month that "looks good" with "10/10" reviews. It's like groundhogs day with these Chinese parryslop games.
 
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Zefah

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Man, I suck ass at this game. No idea how I'm supposed to be playing it. I can't figure out parry timing for the life of me. The three weapons I have all feel like I'm hitting enemies with a wet noodle since there are almost zero hit reactions. I ended up just kind of dodge cheesing the Jagged Blade or whatever boss (with the bleed proc) because I simply couldn't figure out how to do close combat.

I think I'm going to put this on hold for a bit while I reset my expectations. I played Onimusha recently and still haven't quite finished it. Despite all its faults, the combat in it feels a million times better to me than this. Like, at least I know what I am supposed to do and how I am screwing up in that game. In this, I simply have no idea. Honestly probably would have refunded if I hadn't bought it on GMG. Oh well, hopefully when I come back to it later I'll figure out how to enjoy it properly, because it seems like a lot of people are having a blast and I feel like I'm just missing something crucial.
 
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Springbok

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Games pretty good but starts out not great imo. Once you unlock more stuff combat becomes much better. Something about this game triggers migraines for me though so I had to shelve it. Think it's the FOV - way too close. FF Resonance is better. Will come back to this once I can get the fov mod to work so I can zoom out and retry.
 
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I could never get into souls games, this feels like a faster paced version?

I bought this over resonance, I cheated a bit on easy to get ahead in the start, only past the first map.

hype train was a bit overblown but it’s getting better.

Largely doing 2hander.
 
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