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Tango Studios, who has developed the Ghost Possessed series, is producing a new topical title, Ghost Line: Tokyo, which will hit the PS5/PC platform on March 25, 2022.
As a first-person box-style action-adventure game, the game will use Tokyo as a stage, and players will need to fight or communicate with monsters such as monsters and ghosts in the game. With the announcement of the game release trailer, the author will preview the action gameplay and play experience of this game in detail through this article.
Take modern Tokyo as the stage
From the buildings to the ambient atmosphere, Ghost Line: Tokyo recreates a modern Tokyo as a stage for the game with exquisite graphic representation. Both Shibuya Station and the famous station front intersection will all appear in the game. In this game, however, these scenes have become deserted places, where only strange and mysterious psychic creatures continue to wander.
A supernatural battle that advances from a first-person perspective
The protagonist of this work is a young man named Xiao ren. Players will unfold the game from his first-person perspective and experience an FPS-like perspective experience. That being said, Instead of using fists or guns to fight, Xiaoren uses his superpowers to manipulate elements to fight enemies, which is the biggest feature of Ghost Line: Tokyo. Through continuous attacks, the battle gameplay of finding a "spirit core" that can destroy the enemy's weakness is very unique.
Two hearts fight supernatural threats
At the crossroads of Shibuya, one day suddenly a mysterious phenomenon of all human beings disappearing in an instant, and our protagonist Xiaoren is also involved. After this, the boundaries between the everyday and the non-everyday in Tokyo began to blur, and the entire Shibuya was closed by an eerie fog. Despite being involved in the incident, Xiaoren somehow did not disappear, but merged with a ghost hunter named "KK".
Why didn't I disappear? Where are the missing family members now? What is the purpose of the mysterious man wearing a pranayama mask that suddenly appears in front of him? In order to solve these doubts, Xiaoren can only embark on a two-hearted adventure with "KK", arguing and supporting each other, and in order to complete their respective goals, they begin to explore this Shibuya shrouded in various weirdness.
▲ The golden and brilliant Tokyo Tower can be said to be one of the symbolic elements of this work
Ghost Line: Tokyo not only faithfully recreates tokyo's urban street layout, but also adds many playable elements to this basis. This kind of Tokyo, which is both authentic and gameplay, is definitely unique to this game.
In addition, ancient buildings such as torii gates, which stand in a modern and modern setting, are also a major feature of "Tokyo" depicted in this work. In the game, players must purify the torii gate to dispel the thick fog that hangs over Shibuya and expand the area to explore.
The three-dimensional map design, which has been greatly expanded in a vertical direction, is another major feature of this game, which means that scenes such as building roofs will also be explorable areas of the game. To better illustrate this, the game offers a variety of movements for players to learn, such as hooking a tengu with a rope and rushing into the sky in one breath.
As you expand the exploration area, players will encounter a variety of monsters and figurative urban legends, and in the process of fighting these supernatural beings to the death, Xiao ren and KK will gradually approach the truth of the mystery. Encounters with yokai or help floating spirits on the map can earn skill points, and players can freely cultivate the protagonist Xiaoren according to their favorite play style.
The incredible power to manipulate the elements
When facing supernatural enemies such as evil spirits and weirdness, fists and guns naturally do not work. The only way to fight him is the elemental spell cast by Xiaoren through his constantly changing hand shape. Simply put, it is to release the power of nature from the hand and inflict damage on the enemy. By pressing and holding the button to charge fire, you can expose the enemy's spirit core, and then use the rope to grab the spirit core, which can give the enemy a fatal blow.
Elemental spells are the main attack methods in the game that include the energy of different elements such as wind, fire, and water. But in addition, players can also use weapons such as bows and arrows, as well as spells that temporarily make enemies incapacitated. It is worth mentioning that when the player uses defensive actions to cast shields, it is also able to rebound enemy attacks.
The enchanted rays that linger in Tokyo
After all the humans in Tokyo have mysteriously disappeared, they will be replaced by all kinds of strange beings in the streets and alleys of the city, which will become the obstacles that the xiao people have to face in their search for the truth. In addition to various yokai that have been passed down from the ancient times of Japan to the present, there are also many mysterious creatures that can be reminiscent of various urban legends.
These weird designs based on traditional Japanese culture and urban legends, as well as a series of unusual events caused by them, are also a major charm of this game. For example, the woman holding huge scissors in the depths of the food street, the terrifying face like a mask, is not the once popular urban legend "Rift Woman"?
Weird lurks in every corner
As players move away from the main road of the illuminated avenue, they will be able to get a glimpse of Tokyo's historic street formations. When you see a strange presence like an urban legend at the end of an alley with cloudy air and dim lights, the player's grip will probably be held tighter. In the streets of Tokyo, where tradition and modern culture intertwine, the dark corners where the lights can't shine are an important source of the game's unique gaming experience.
Sensory impact from eerie phenomena
Sometimes, even in the middle of a building, weirdness can happen, and the scenery in front of the player will suddenly become eerie and distorted. In other words, in addition to the open sense of free exploration experience outdoors, the game experience in enclosed spaces such as buildings is also full of unknowns. How to face the strangeness of the attack is entirely up to the players themselves.
"Tokyo" is a condensation of many amazing scenery, a three-dimensional map design that emphasizes vertical dimensions, a unique battle system based on the power of elements, and various weird designs based on classic monsters and urban legends... This is the completely new work "Ghost Line: Tokyo" that Tango Studios has worked hard to create. With little time left until players can experience this thrill for themselves, let's meet again on the weird streets of Tokyo!
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