Phantom Blade Zero Director Wants to Use Development Ideas From the PS2 Era to Manage Scope

Developer S-Game’s upcoming action title, Phantom Blade Zero, is trying to replicate the feeling of playing through a kung fu action movie. Director “Soulframe” Liang spoke about this in a conversation with Eurogamer at Game Developer’s Conference 2025.

Staying with this idea, Liang also brings up Sloclap’s action game Sifu as one of the inspirations behind the themes and gameplay of Phantom Blade Zero.

In this conversation, Liang also spoke about managing the scope of Phantom Blade Zero by taking cues from game development ideas of the 90s.