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Aug 5, 2024, 1:04:39 PM8/5/24
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Beforewe get to the latest trailer for S-Game's soulslike Phantom Blade Zero I have a couple of complaints to lodge about the title. Firstly, this game clearly contains a non-zero quantity of blades, from whacking great axes to katanas. Secondly, I do not accept the premise that these are phantom blades. They are very obviously non-spectral, going by the amount of stabbing and clanging on show in the video. With these potentially ruinous caveats out of the way, I am now free to tell you more about a game that looks like it's out to eat Sekiro's lunch.

To phrase things in more clinical terms, Phantom Blade Zero is a "semi open-world" action-RPG with artifacts to find, skills to unlock and a broody, feudal-yet-mechanical "kungfupunk" setting. It's a spiritual follow-up of sorts to the developer's 2010 turn-based RPG Rainblood for mobile.


Ed liked the cut of last year's announcement trailer, but was a shade ambivalent about the shortage of in-game footage. The new trailer seeks to lay Ed's fears to rest with a montage of combos, parries, stealthy executions and bosses with names such as Commander Cleave. There's at least one highly Soulsy ambush in which the player has to dodge an exploding bear hug, and a Jade Dancer who reminds me of any number of very annoying, Malenia-adjacent high agility bosses. But this is being framed as more of a power fantasy than Souls - the trailer shows you staggering larger opponents with relative ease and hurling projectiles back to sender like something out of God Of War.


I'll be seeing a new 30 minute demo of Phantom Blade Zero up close at Summer Game Fest over the weekend. I have reasonably high hopes for it, though I must acknowledge the eternally ominous presence of QTEs in the footage above. Do you have any thoughts I can steal and turn into interview questions?


That is how in the SDCC clip about The Force Awakens Mark Hamill describes some of his feelings about the upcoming movie. So, if we take that as a starting point, is there also something different in the way the hype for the movie is building up this time around? The answer is, No! Not really!


So if we now turn to the The Force Awakens trailer and acknowledge that there will be fans who will, within the next two months but probably only on the 18th of December, radically change their opinions on the movie by 180 degrees; is it possible to already identify now from this trailer what could be the elements that attract fan-hate? Well, I will give it a try (though I love the trailer) and see if I can find things that people have just glossed over now that will get them really upset by Christmas.


A body-part separating outcome would be narratively possible and even very meaningful potentially, but a bit early in the narrative sequence. It seems to me that few fans who are raving about the duel shown to start at the end have considered they might end up loving the duel but hating the outcome, like with The Phantom Menace.


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Transporting a race car and all that gear or a classic car to the show is much more than hauling it from one place to another. You want to be confident your auto is totally secure and protected from road conditions and the elements - and of course you want to show up with a trailer that looks and performs just as awesome as your car.


"Fear is the path to the dark side..." Time to return to that galaxy far, far away. 20th Century has revealed a brand new trailer for the 25th anniversary re-release of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace in theaters this May. This highly anticipated prequel in the Star Wars series opened in the summer of 1999, some 25 years ago, and the hype was through the roof. I remember waiting in line just to get tickets, and all the mania waiting for it to open. Then everyone went to see it and did not like it. Now all these years later, is it time for a re-appraisal? In The Phantom Menace, two Jedi escape a hostile blockade and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their original glory. We're introduced to Anakin, Jar Jar, Qui Gon, Amidala, Shmi, Valorum, and many others in this sci-fi spectacle. Starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Pernilla August, & Frank Oz. There are a few exceptional moments in this, mainly the pod race and Duel of the Fates. Will you see it again? "Every generation has a legend..."


While the ruthless Trade Federation ravage the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi Wan Kenobi are sent there to rescue and protect the young Queen Amidala, who is determined to convince the Senate to help her restore peace to her home. Escaping to the planet Tatooine, the Jedi come across an eager slave boy named Anakin Skywalker who dreams of becoming a Jedi. What they don't know however is that they are being used in a sinister plot by the mysterious Sith, hiding deep in the shadows. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is both written and directed by the American filmmaker / writer / producer George Lucas, his first time back directing Star Wars since A New Hope in 1977, as well as THX 1138 and American Graffiti previously. It's produced by Rick McCallum. The Phantom Menace originally opened in theaters on May 19th, 1999 - 25 years ago. It was also re-released converted into 3D back in 2012. Disney / 20th Century will once again re-release The Phantom Menace in theaters starting May 3rd, 2024 to celebrate its 25th anniversary. For more info + updates, head to StarWars.com.


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Back when Silver Phantom was announced, I could see that the main Gundam was some kind of Delta Gundam variant. This new trailer (shown below) confirms that, as does the breakdown on the anime over at Gundam.info.


This is because the original Delta Gundam acted as the basis for the Hyakushiki in Zeta Gundam. The Delta Plus then popped up in Gundam Unicorn and considering that Silver Phantom takes places in UC 0096, it makes sense that a few Delta Plus mobile suits would be laying around for some funky modifications.


Gundam also has a pretty cool history of doing crazy new ways of handling entertainment. Anime one-offs like Green Divers come to mind, not to mention Gundam: The Ride. The latter had you transported through the final battle of the One Year War in a civilian transport and that was very cool for its time. Well, it at least impressed me when I went to see it over two decades ago.


As i mentioned in the [Han - Solo Movie ** Spoilers **] me and my friends watched the TPM teaser trailer, which i recorded on VHS from the German TV channel Pro7. We watched it multiple times in a row and each one us was very exycited that a new Star Wars movie will be released in theatres.


It was 1998. Like Star Wars fans all over the world, my buddies and I couldn't get enough of the Phantom Menace trailer. Long before Star Wars' current ubiquity, long before The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi and Rogue One and Solo, before Disney Plus and The Mandalorian, before even the Clone Wars cartoons, the return of the sacred saga to the big screen was set to be a world-shaking moment. The trailers for The Phantom Menace gave the first glimpse, and therefore were huge events for fans.


But they were more than that. Today, teasers and trailers and teasers for trailers are a huge part of the movie marketing machine on YouTube and countless entertainment and fan sites. But back then the previews for The Phantom Menace didn't just offer a peek at a new Star Wars flick: for some of us, the Phantom Menace trailer was our first major brush with this new-fangled invention called the World Wide Web. The trailer was a game-changer, a milestone for the next-generation technology driving a cultural and technological quantum leap into a new millennium.


It's astonishing to think how much things have changed in the last two decades, and many of those changes began for me that very year. In 1998, not only did I go to college, but I also I got my first email address -- Hotmail, of course. My phone was a payphone at the end of the corridor, and you had to hope someone passing by would answer it and knock on your door -- which is why I also got my first mobile phone, an Ericsson T28, in very short order.


By 1998 we had the iTunes Trailers site and news site Ain't It Cool, but there was no Facebook, no Twitter and no YouTube. Into this veritable stone age came the first teaser for The Phantom Menace, six months before the film's release date Nov. 18 1998.


The first trailer was shown at 75 US and Canadian theatres before Universal's Meet Joe Black, Disney's The Waterboy and 20th Century Fox's The Siege. Star Wars fans queued around the block to get in, watch the trailer, and then leave. Trailers were also repeated afterwards, so some fans are reported to have ducked out before the feature presentation only to return at the end for a second glimpse of the preview.

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