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Phantom Blade Zero’s Combat Is So Good, You Won’t Care The Story Makes No Sense

Phantom Blade Zero’s Combat Is So Good, You Won’t Care The Story Makes No Sense https://ift.tt/KPSX6di S-Game, the Chinese studio behind Phantom Blade Zero, clearly understands the core tenets of character-action games. If your melee combat isn't tight, responsive, and oozing cool, then what's the point? Some games might have better combat, but few can match Phantom Blade Zero's style.  Every moment feels like you're in the middle of a Chinese martial-arts movie, pulling off moves that shouldn't be feasible--moves that go against what we expect from third-person action games--yet are baked into the mechanics. The game is not without issues, and they do hold it back from reaching the genre's upper echelons, but the highs are stratospheric. Character-action games aren't typically known for telling riveting stories, and Phantom Blade Zero is no different. You play as Soul, a stoic assassin who dies in the game's opening moments when a sword tears t...

Fast X's Shocking Ending And Post-Credits Scene Explained

Fast X's Shocking Ending And Post-Credits Scene Explained https://ift.tt/2LSmXbG

Fast X was planned as the end of the main Fast & Furious series, and then that ending became a two-parter, and now Fast X has potentially ballooned into a trilogy. That evolving plan clearly had a big impact on Fast X's own conclusion, or lack thereof--it ends on a couple enormous cliffhangers.

Warning: This article will be filled with major spoilers for Fast X.

Fast X is split into four main storylines for all but the first five minutes or so. Dom goes to Brazil to figure out what the deal is with new baddie Dante. Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) is locked in a blacksite prison and has to team up with Cipher (Charlize Theron) to escape. Jakob (John Cena) goes on a road trip with Dom's son Brian. Roman, Tej, Han and Ramsay (Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Sung Kang and Nathalie Emmanuel) spin their wheels while they wait for the movie to have some purpose for them to exist. Or to not exist?

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