Phantom Blade Zero Review: Great Combat, Held Back by Story and Collision Issues

IGN's Phantom Blade Zero review calls the combat the game's biggest strength, citing precise parries and dodges, dozens of weapons with unique movesets, and a posture system that pushes frequent weapon swapping across a 50-hour playthrough. It also criticizes the convoluted timeline and jargon-heavy story, plus geometry problems and invisible walls that caused roughly half of the author's nearly 200 deaths. The review notes framerate drops on one map and praises the varied boss fights, where cleared phases don't need to be replayed.