Phantom Blade Zero finally shows off its interconnected game world, with exploration 'guided by 8 authentic hand-painted Chinese ink wash maps'

In a PlayStation State of Play video today, Phantom Blade Zero developer S-Game has finally shown off glimpses of a game world it's largely kept secret up to this point, with eight individual maps that "seamlessly connect into a single world." In my demos of the game over the last year and a half, S-Game has stressed that the areas I got to play and the boss

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