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[Draugoth]

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer UltiZero Games debuted new gameplay footage of action RPG Lost Soul Aside during a PlayStation booth stage event at ChinaJoy 2024.

Lost Soul Aside will be available for PlayStation 5 and PC. A release date has yet to be announced.

Watch the full stage event below.

 

[SantaC]

A release date has yet to be announced.

It's like a joke at this point. This game isnt coming out. It gotta be longer development than Duke Nukem Forever.

 

[proandrad]

Dude really made an entire game based on liking Noctis character design and vibe from the verses13 trailer.

 

[Punished Miku]

Looks about the same as always. Stylish lower budget DMC. Could be an okay time if it ever comes out.

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

I totally forgot this game existed... Even though I really liked what I saw when it was first showcased.

I still don't like how the protagonist looks, is like if you took Cloud, Lightning, and Noctus and mashed them together...

But it could be interesting!

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Still no date is extremely disappointing.

 

[CamHostage]

Weird that Sony picked this up to publish; they usually don't publish China Hero Project titles themselves even though they back them (most CHP games have in fact been multiplatform eventually after their PS run,) and this game has been in development for so long (2017!) that you have to wonder how it will turn out. Hope it's good though.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Can't wait to play this on PS8

 

[Ansphn]

This is definitely coming out but it's taking a long time because originally it was only 1 guy making this game.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Big flashy jumping flaming spinning slash followed by uppercut flaming slash, and downward slashing, stab, stab, slash!!!!

Regular size enemy loses .00016% of health.

Give me meaty combat over this any day.

 

[nial]

>still no set release date
2024 hope is not gone until September!

 

[yurinka]

A release date has yet to be announced.

Still no date is extremely disappointing.

>still no set release date
2024 hope is not gone until September!

This game isnt coming out.

The game has "2024" as release date, matching what the creator said that he planned to spend 10 years in this game. 3 months ago got the greenglight for its release in China after being reviewed, which means isn't far from release:


So pretty likely will be released in 2024.

XDEV Japan (formerly known as Japan Studio's 2nd party support/XDEV team) is in charge of publishing/supporting it, like the rest of Asian 2nd party games, so maybe they'll announce the release date closer to release in the Tokyo Game Show related State of Play, where they normally highlight Asian games.

 

[SantaC]

Honestly it looks like shit

 

[SkylineRKR]

Honestly it looks like shit

I was about to say this.

The game was first showed in the wake of FFXV's disappointing release. This has almost been a decade ago. I think many have moved on.

Big flashy jumping flaming spinning slash followed by uppercut flaming slash, and downward slashing, stab, stab, slash!!!!

Regular size enemy loses .00016% of health.

Give me meaty combat over this any day.

Honestly Stellar Blade is the same. Enemies won't flinch, and barely take any damage from most attacks. Its pretty much all for show, you need to abuse those meter abilities to win. And, FFXVI is exactly like this as well.

 

[March Climber]

Dude really made an entire game based on liking Noctis character design and vibe from the verses13 trailer.

And the gameplay looks like taking that same Noctis and putting him into Final Fantasy 16. I kind of dig it.

Hope they announce a date sometime soon.

 

[Dr. Acid Avatar]

I always forget what this game is until I see the gameplay. Hope it's good!

 

[mckmas8808]

Still no date is extremely disappointing.

SUPER disappointing! I hope it's 2025. If not, I'm never buying it.

 

[March Climber]

I always forget what this game is until I see the gameplay. Hope it's good!

It's been so long that it's funny to put it into perspective. This game was announced during a time where people didn't automatically assume that having the word 'soul' in your title meant you were making a Soulslike.

 

[Pejo]

Looks like they went back to the drawing board for the what, 5th or 6th time now? And oh boy, they added a break/stagger bar, how exciting.

 

[Deft Beck]

I am astounded this is still in development.

 

[March Climber]

I am astounded this is still in development.

That's the benefit of self-development, the biggest cost is your time. Most of this game's development was from 1 guy. Yes, things have expanded a bit in the past few years from what I've heard(which makes a release date much more important now), but before that it was just him.

 

[stn]

I'm in, I love these types of games.

 

[Draugoth]