Way of the Sword game is meant to be accessible to all fans, but won't be a brutal soulslike experience with lots of failure.

Recently some action games have been pushing back on that and returning to the conventional action style, with the devs of Phantom Blade 0 being extremely insistent that the game is not a soulslike.

The voice work has taken an enormous leap as the actors behind digital characters become stars in their own right, and the gameplay has been refined to the point that older titles feel clunky at times ...