Has PlayStation Found Its Own Black Myth: Wukong? New PS5 Console Exclusive Is One to Watch

Where the Phantom blades meet Wukong: Whispers edition

Listen I'm loving the fact that China are taking console gaming seriously, but they are starting to ever so slightly look the same...

They had me at the first trailer way back when!

Graphic and combat looks solid. And i like the premise of playing as an ordinary boatman who forced to become an undercover agent, 'detective', and also martial artist.

I think this and Loulan are two promising games from China Hero Project. But the good thing is they not release this year or they'll lose the spotlight to PB0.

@Oram77 Seriously, these Chinese games look way too damn similar. Either they're anime gacha games or grim wuxia soulslikes. Like, if you told me these were screenshots from Phantom Blade Zero, I'd believe you.

Look, I get this sort of historical fantasy wuxia stuff is really popular in China, but I really wish we could get a big budget AAA game set in modern-day China; sorta like the Yakuza series, but not necessarily gang-related and with less fantasy. Sci-fi/cyberpunk would be good, too, I suppose.

East Asia is such a big part of the gaming industry, but there are a shockingly few number of AAA games set in modern-day East Asia. At least not ones that aren't anime-style or whatnot.

Looks good! These Hero Projects from Sony are such good initiatives, i hope they’ll expand to even more regions outside China, India and Middle East. Like South American and South East Asia perhaps. Love seeing games made from different perspectives and cultures besides the mainstream ones

@Questionable_Duck "Sci-fi/cyberpunk would be good, too, I suppose"

• F.I.S.T: Forge in Shadow Torch and the prequel Zoopunk
• Anno: Mutationem
• Evotinction
• Hardcore Mecha
• AI Limit
• Parasite Mutant
• Will-Less
• Punishing: Gray Raven

Edit: oh wait, you want AAA so forget my list.

Unreal Engine 5 was a mistake; so many games looking identical without any art direction =[ But the gameplay looked solid, too many souls-adjacent games to even consider playing another however

@Oram77 Yeah, they all do seem to blur together for me as well. It’s not unlike the zombie and certain horror games also, the ones with “Dead” in their names — Dead Island, Dead by Daylight, Dead Rising, Dying Light, House of the Dead, and many others with zombies in them, either in the title or gameplay — Zombie Army, Zombi, World War Z, and so on. I know for those who play these and are well-informed, unlike me, these games are all very different. I’m sure it’s true of the samurai style action games. And I know samurai is a Japanese term, and many of these are Chinese, so not sure the right term… Google say maybe “Youxia”? I’m not sure what a feudal sword wielding warrior would be called in the Chinese culture. But yeah, I’m sure the games all have their distinct qualities and perhaps are nothing alike one another, but the previews and gameplay footage do seem quite similar.

Edit: or Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk, as a good callout by @PuppetMaster

Edit 2: Ah, “Wuxia”, that’s the term. Thanks @Questionable_Duck

Feel a bit queasy about all these 'Chinese games look the same' comments - the UE5 criticism is more valid though. Personally find all these new titles refreshing after seemingly decades of Western games based around guys running around shooting each other.

@Oram77 Right. It’s like they’re all trying to copy Ghost of Tsushima at its core, the setting is always similar and the whole game design resembles each other. It’s great for fans of this style but it’s starting to feel diluted somehow.

It's not even just the graphics and art design that makes them feel the same, all of these soulslikes always seems to use the exact same UI aspects. Normal enemies have one or two coloured bars floating above them, you lock on them with a small circle, bosses have a fancy name that you could randomly generate {Funky name}, the {adjective or two} and a big health bar that you chip away at. Your own character has two or three bars, health and stamina.

I get there is only so many ways you can present the same information but why do they all have to be exactly the same?

@Silenos Yeah i remember when tons of games looks very similar with gritty-brown art style, generic soldier guy in the front cover, and FPS/TPS with regen health + cover based mechanic back in PS3/360 era.

Then people complaint they had enough of it and demand games to look more colorful. Now here we are with games looks more colorful, not FPS/TPS, not generic soldier guy, not cover based shooter with regen health, used Asian culture / setting, and we still have some people complaints 'boooo all these games looks the same!' lol.

@PuppetMaster Yeah, I was thinking of a AAA game with realistic graphics. But those are good games tho

@PuppetMaster And yet it's the truth though, using FPS as a comparison only helps the claim. You probably know Phantom Blade is my second most hyped game of the year, but we literally can't say that Blood Message, This game, where the winds meet, that Avatar-esque game, Sword and Fairy 4 don't all look all simuliar juist like your FPS analogy no? Obviously not saying they are going to be bad (in fact alot of them seem to have great gameplay)

What I liked about that trailer was when the lead character ran thru a village that had "GASP" actual other NPC's walking around! Normally you don't see any of that as its usually just a gauntlet run' through some "Skeleton-Warriors" to the next Boss Fight in most of these games. I'm actually looking forward to this one. Hope it does well upon release.

It actually looks like phantom blade zero with a few difference. Word up son

@Oram77 They used the same setting in classic China and Wuxia so obviously they have close similarities. It's like saying Call of Juarez, Red Dead Redemption, and Evil West looks similar because they used cowboy setting. But are all of them gonna played the same? I don't think so.

Blood Message and this game for example. The gameplay clearly looks very different. Blood Message looks more grounded with the combat + Uncharted adventure style while this one is leaning heavily on Wuxia style add with some fantasy of rewinding time.

Heck, this game and Phantom Blade 0 doesn't look the same from gameplay despite both lean heavily on Wuxia.

The thing is i think they still looks more fresh than the gritty-brown-military shooters that we got so many of them back in PS3/360 era.

@PuppetMaster You say it looks fresh but I wonder if you will keep the same energy once they have all come out, only time will tell.

so many of these kinds of games 😒

The investigation part unironically interests me more. Though I feel like it's a bit too early to call this the next "Black Myth Eukong" lol we have to wait and see if they'll pull it off (and hopefully won't suffer any kind of development issues)

@Oram77 I think i will.

I'm excited for Onimusha: Way of the Sword and Nioh 3 despite over the years i already played a lot of Japan sengoku period + samurai games that looks and play similar.

But i'm not sure why you or some people in here shows negative reaction towards Chinese devs / games. Why are you complaining some Chinese games looks similar while ignoring the ones that looks and plays different?

And why Chinese devs can't have their own signature with Wuxia + classic ming / tang dynasty setting just like Japanese with samurai / ninja + sengoku / meiji setting or Western with cowboy & medieval setting?

@PuppetMaster I have literally said Phantom Blade 0 is my most hyped game of the year..... I am also playing the Nioh demo as I type this and loving it (has made preorder the game now),

We aren't being negative at all, we are stating our opinion that a lot of the games are starting to look alike (from looking at comments above some people agree) and no it has nothing to do with them being Chinese devs, they could have been from anywhere in the world and I would say the same thing, really not sure why you are being so protective over this.

To make perfectly clear all the games coming from Chinese studios seem have really cool gameplay, your example of Blood Message is a good, as I have said in the past gameplay is far more important to me then the setting.

All those Chinese games look exactly the same lol

@nomither6 lack of creativity

Like someone said here on in the other Chinese game article… they all look so generic and similar. It’s like after copying from all other games, they now copy from themselves.

Generic

@PuppetMaster aside from all of these games looking generic and copied from everything around, I also do not support these knowing that in China there is no place for independent management. All of these Chinese devs are controlled in some ways by Chinese communist government, like everything in China. They want you to buy all these shiny looking games, and get access to your data. Suddenly everyone forgot why Huawei was banned in some countries when people realized it is used for spying for them?!

Not to mention, China uses cheap products in gaming like in any other economy branch, so you get used to them, buy them, want more.. and forget than in case of any global conflict between biggest powers, China will not stand on the same side as most of us here So you basically are feeding the power that one day will use that against you.

@Leinad7 I don't know WTF are you yapping about.

@Oram77 "they could have been from anywhere in the world and I would say the same thing"

I didn't see you say the same thing for western devs zombie games or open world games which many of them looks and plays similar for years. But hey, you do you i guess.

@PuppetMaster To quote you "I don't know WTF are you yapping about"

@Oram77 I'm saying you can stay ignorant and keep spreading that "all these Chinese games looks the same" opinion 🤷‍♂️

@PuppetMaster Ok brother.... Try not to get caught up in your feelings next time. did you notice in the other article someone said the same thing I did, food for thought

@Oram77 Did you notice in the other article someone said they didn't get people who said the same thing you did? Food for thought: don't be an ignorant like other people.

But like i said, you do you.

@PuppetMaster You trying to take the moral high ground on a playstation fan site about Chinese games was not on a bingo card, take that over to Reddit or something 🤷‍♂️

All of these games could be spliced together and 9 outta 10 people would never know the difference. Hopefully they eventually become a bit more original and unique to stand on their own and not just more of the same.

@Questionable_Duck Give me the Gatcha game in a normal RPG form and I'll be there day one.

@Flaming_Kaiser Agreed tbh, I might have actually played ZZZ or Wuthering Waves if they were singleplayer offline RPGs.