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.

A picture of Dark Raider, protagonist of Phantom Blade Zero, swinging a sword around in a rainy, muddy courtyard

It’s a spiritual follow-up of sorts to the developer’s 2010 turn-based RPG Rainblood for mobile.

Do you have any thoughts I can steal and turn into interview questions?

The flurry of summer games events are now underway!