Review · 9/10
Phantom Blade 0
A martial-arts action RPG whose Sha-Chi combat system genuinely earns its acclaim, paired with a serviceable but safe story that never threatens to steal the spotlight back.
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- Sha-Chi ties stamina, posture and skill into one shared resource that both you and every enemy manage, and critics single it out as close to a genre-best combat system
- Roughly thirty weapon types and twenty Phantom Edge techniques keep fights from settling into one repeated pattern
- Donnie Yen's work as combat consultant and Kenji Tanigaki's choreography give the fighting a cinematic quality critics compare favorably to Black Myth: Wukong's
- Eight confirmed endings and a Wayfarer difficulty mode that leans into story give it more replay and accessibility range than most genre peers
