An Open-World Game With Ghost of Tsushima Vibes, Tight Combat - Kotaku

Five months aft I posted astir a Chinese enactment crippled featuring aerial combat, I’ve got another chill 1 to amusement you. Despite the silly name, Project: The Perceiver is a melancholy governmental play that gives maine immoderate Ghost of Tsushima vibes. But Project: The Perceiver moves beyond the modular Soulslike combat. And erstwhile I saw the main quality moving up the wall—that’s erstwhile I really started to wage attention.

Most of the enemies are human, which means that the archetypal absorption is connected knowing however to parry attacks and smash their heads successful with a rolling kick. As you accumulate experience, the protagonist can alteration into angiosperm blossoms and wall-jump his mode crossed rotating platforms. I’m anxious to spot the afloat scope of abilities erstwhile the crippled gets person to launch.

Wuxia is simply a Chinese literate genre successful which wandering heroes question crossed China successful bid to combat for justice, and Project: The Perceiver fits good into that genre. The protagonist, who is aboriginal known arsenic the Mask of Devotion is killed successful a battle, his ruler is murdered, and helium returns to beingness arsenic a masked phantom, which makes it consciousness a spot similar The Ghost of Tsushima. Devotion goes connected to combat against the Mask of Umbra, a rebel who seems to bask indulging successful a spot of motivation philosophy. “This onshore belongs to each of its inhabitants,” the villain would accidental portion battling the leader successful a tract of flowers. “Be it Liangs oregon Tangs, does it substance what the authorities is called?” Like dang. We’re having morals people successful the mediate of a life-or-death battle. I emotion it.

There’s conscionable 1 problem—the localization is atrocious. The descriptions are flowery successful a mode that feels similar they were translated excessively virtually from Chinese. It’s hard for maine to parse what the translations are trying to archer me. The trailer is perfectly comprehensible, truthful I’m hoping that this was conscionable a selling flub.

Project: The Perceiver does not yet person a merchandise date, though it’s confirmed for PlayStation 4 and 5. It’s unclear whether oregon not it volition travel to different platforms successful the future.