Phantom Blade: Executioners

I play on a laptop, but you can also play from your phone or PS.

There is no Russian language, but this is not a problem if you are good with English (there is nothing very difficult in English - if you giggle from memes in English, then generally easy). Immediately set the voice acting to Japanese to catch the vibes)

The controls can be reassigned as you wish, a definite plus.

So far, in multiplayer I have only noticed interaction with other players: through sending daily gifts to friends (such nostalgia for BlazBlue RR because of this, you would know); through calling phantoms of other players on separate missions, played by the computer.

The plot is normal: you enter a mission, the first couple of minutes are a beautifully drawn and animated cut-scene, then it’s a pure mission with fights and machos... and so on until you kill the main shit of this particular storyline.

The gameplay is interesting, although sometimes it sags in places.

In the camp, between missions, you can collect and test various combos of skills and improve them with bundles of phantoms (local trinkets). You can’t put together a combo just like that, because... there is a Sha-Chi resource, which some skills generate, and some absorb... at first there is an interest in mixing attacks in different orders, see what happens, but quite quickly you can come to the optimal combination and then play only with phantoms - they are very Lots of variety and strategy. There are also clothes and even armor sets, which give certain bonuses for a certain number of items. If you don’t want to understand all this - both for armor and for skills with phantoms, there are buttons that, when pressed, set everything for you so that the total number of “strength” of the character is the largest (in my opinion, it doesn’t always work correctly, but it’ll work if don't want to figure it out). Personally, I’m bored of fiddling with clothes, but I’m not bored of looking at skills and phantoms, so I often use the button for armor. Also, an important and useful point, if you are already tired of the cool collection of skills and gear that you found some time ago, you can save the shortcut from the robot girl in the hub, so that later you don’t remember how and what you set, and try something new .

On the missions themselves, you can not only fight, but also complete side quests - mini-quests that are not included in the main plot, but also tell small, sometimes interesting, stories.

SPOILER: by completing side quests, you can find two items that give 10,000 local gold and 100 local crystals daily.

Regarding the awards. The rewards here are simply through the roof, so that your brain overdoses from such an amount of quick dopamine) For every sneeze you are owed something. They just give you a lot of things for logging into the game every day. Especially at the beginning of the game, when the level rises very quickly and you fly along the first two or three storylines, you are literally bombarded with useful goodies. Naturally, the other side of the coin, after completing the third storyline, noticed that the pace had sagged; more effort was needed to raise the level, get a few tickets for the “box” with phantoms, etc.

The game works on an energy system, that is, initially you have ~200 units of energy, and one mission costs 10-12 units. HOWEVER, due to the large number of rewards, which include energy, I think that most often you will see the following picture: “Energy available: 1200/200”, I have never run out of it + they wrote somewhere on the Internet , that each character has its own energy (yes, there are 4 characters to choose from and one more special one, which you can at least level up at the same time - for now, 1 is enough for me).

Regarding the donation, there are things that you cannot get without a donation. There is a donation currency (local crystals in a square), which cannot be obtained in any way except for money, and of course, local battle passes are bought for it, in which there are skins, and clothes, and resources, and phantoms, and everything, everything. that's all,..

but, considering that there seems to be no direct online between players - I think you can score and play for fun until you hit a donation wall, in the form of a rare resource that will take a very very long time to farm or something -that's it...

Overall, it's a good game. It runs great on my weak laptop, and I'm happy.

The only obvious disadvantage is that you need a constant connection to the Internet; if the Internet is weak, the game itself does not lag, but loading between screens is sometimes quite long.

P.S. If at the entrance, after selecting a character, it says “Connection time out blah blah blah”, then just let the game stand for a while on the character selection screen for a couple of minutes WITHOUT INPUT, then select the character.