re: Phantom Blade 0

I’m playing on hard.

I have fought only one main boss, and maybe two or three side bosses. There are a lot of quest and areas and stuff and the game might feel overbearing at first but you get the flow of things VERY fast.

It is not Sekiro so if you are hopping for that you’ll be disappointed. It’s a pretty unique combat system I’d classify as a hack and slash style of game with minor souls likes stuff but no penalty when you die.

I have tested it on normal and hard since you can make manual saves.

On normal the only main boss i faced I beat him on my third try. On hard it took me 12.


The side boss I was speaking of in that post I have only played on hard and it took me 16 or so tries. You can refund skill investment or weapon upgrades at any time and try to change it around for a better weapon for that boss which I did here and it worked for me. All bosses also drop new weapons.

I would say the game on normal is pretty easy especially anything that isn’t a boss. Hard is, well, pretty hard. Again though I have only fought one main story boss so far though and I think 2 or 3 side bosses


There is a difficulty beyond it but for story reasons you can’t choose it until you beat the game once


Also I don’t think the game is intended to be over the top difficult like say dark souls or something (imo that’s what that locked on 4th option is for if people want it when they beat the game once.) It provides a good challenge yes; especially on hard imo, but it’s more focused on looking absolutely fricking bad arse and letting you go crazy with the power fantasy, which it does let you do you can mow down the grunts like rats lol

Game is exploding in sales. Estimated 1 million in preorders and has surpassed 2 million already, which is pretty impressive.

IGN China came out swinging

“It is time for Chinese developers to teach a lesson to their Western colleagues, who are bogged down in stagnation, have become hostages to political correctness, and churn out more trash games on an assembly line. It is time to let creators from China remind them how to make quality products and what content-rich AAA games should actually be.”


Based as frick

i have finished the 4th zone and gotten all collectibles I could along the way and done all mini bosses. there is a bit of a metroid quality to the game where some items in regions you have to go back to way later with knew abilities.

Some bosses absolutely are fricking brutal on hard.

I use a dual blade one handed sword set up

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Anyone who is saying this game doesnt have hard bosses in playing on easy or normal

It just took me 3 hours to do a side boss that i admittedly chose to make harder since i made a quest choice where the second phase a second person came in to make it 2v1. You can kill her before the boss so the second phase stays a 1v1 if you want.

The game is also huge in comparrison to what I expected

Here is the world map in the game. You can see me scroll over named regions those are zones with bosses, quest, loot, checkpoints etc. You can see I have 6 of them named and I could open them from that menu into the zones, theres at least half the map still clouded out.

guessing there is 12 zones

Yeah I think it is 100% a fantastic game and does something that is extremely rare now a days.

S game really understood the assignment. They created a combat system that I truly think is wholly unique to it and isn’t an experience you can have in any other game. That is so freshing

I’m a good bit past you.

Have done all the optional stuff as went played it a ton over the weekend.

There is a pretty sharp difficult spike imo in the following the zone after the next one for you.

What weapons are you using?

You should have the oriole sword if you made sure to finish that bosses quest before you fight her or you won’t get the third phase and the sword, which is imo the best one handed sword in the game, I roll with that and another one you’ll have already the duel blade viper where it’s a long and a short blade


I’ve also found for the most part a good rule of thumb late game at least is the side bosses start becoming far far more powerful than the main story fights you can’t miss, which makes sense some of them drop insane things

Yeah they’re all really fun to use but some are objectively better

The oriole sword I have maxed at level 30 you’ll also meet the last of the 3 upgrade girls in pengzhen like the armor then jeweler and this lady introduces something called simmering, it lets you use a rare item that’s needed for each weapon and side weapon to add a new very powerful aspect to it. The oriole swords is so fricking good. It will be the best sword you get

Its l1 O move is so fricking good. It lets you attack from range for 10 seconds and marks them with that debuff which then makes them take extra damage for 10 seconds after

4.5 million copies sold in 72 hours confirmed by the studio

And they have confirmed next month for Christmas they’re putting out physical editions