You'll need The Banyan's Heart in Phantom Blade Zero to unlock certain skills like Fluid Form Level 2, Quick Remedy, or Opening Strike.You can get your first Banyan Heart towards the end of the Crimson Forest area, just after you activate the Parting Mists bell, after you fight Stone Fist Iron Fever—it's basically impossible to miss:Drop down from the Parting Mists bell and head across to the island with the...
Whence the Weeping might seem like a sidequest you're supposed to complete in Phantom Blade Zero's first Weeping Creek Valley area, but it's actually a major quest that takes a significant portion of the game to finish. If you've just started and are here wondering if you've missed something: you haven't, and you don't need this guide right now.It's also relatively straightforward—it's just that quest tracking isn't available for it...
(Image credit: S-Game Studios)Why is bleed always so strong? I guess the entire concept of dealing damage, but also building a status bar on an enemy that deals even more damage when it reaches full, is a bit OP as ideas go. Anyone who's played Elden Ring for any length of time has likely experienced Reduvia and Rivers of Blood, most likely when Nerijus invaded and wiped out their health...
(Image credit: S-Game Studios)I spent a long time in Phantom Blade Zero searching for the Backstreet Courtyard Key, convinced it would unlock the inaccessible area where Old Man Gen's house is located, as well as the third acolyte scarecrow. Turns out, that gate doesn't lead to either.If you're searching for that key with that in mind, you instead need to acquire the Flaming Mane phantom edge from the region boss...
The design politics of studios in the early 2000s will always fascinate me—not the unsavory stuff, I am glad that is well and truly binned—but rather, the little elbows and feet put on other designers in studios where there wasn't a clear, clean pipeline or a mandate.Such was the case with Blizzard where, as revealed by principal Kris Zierhut in a recent Polygon interview, there was a little cheeky in-fighting...
Cast your mind back to January and you might remember a sit-down we had with some of the leaders of a newly-independent GOG. The DRM-free storefront had separated from its former owner—CD Projekt—and returned to the arms of its original cofounder, Michał Kiciński. Back then, Kiciński told us that publishing was one of the several moves GOG was considering in its post-CDP life. Well, the day has finally come."Together with...
We've been in a global memory shortage for about a year now, causing many of our systems and PC parts to drastically increase in price. Since then, it's very much been a guessing game how long it will all go on for. The primary cause of the shortage has been the insatiable demand of AI data centres, so we've naturally assumed if that dies down or if memory production can...
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Phantom Blade Zero's release is almost here, and the reviews are looking pretty positive—I've been playing it the last couple of weeks and it's definitely the best action game of the year, if not the past few years.The release date for Phantom Blade Zero is October 28 or 29 depending on where you call home, but the exact time will vary. However, it is a simultaneous release around the globe:West...
Rockstar employees will hold a vote on union recognition over a two-week span in November that will perfectly bracket the studio's launch of the console version of Grand Theft Auto 6. If the vote carries in favor of the union, the IWGB Rockstar Game Workers Union will become the biggest game industry union in the UK, giving employees a voice on matters including pay and bonuses, overtime, redundancies, flexible working...