Chinese studio Paper Games has just announced a new open world action game called Project The Perceiver, developed by in-house sub-studio 17ZHE. It was certainly a surprise announcement, as Paper Games is very well known for producing the popular dress up game Shining Nikki and the Nikki Up2U series.
From the trailer, it looks like Project The Perceiver is set in a fictional historical era with a Dark Souls-inspired battle. According to one official descriptionPlayers will also meet a lot of different characters in the midst of turmoil, understand and mask their ideals, and also engage in violent duels.
In the trailer, a character dies and, upon respawning, receives an “empty mask”. Official Transceiver website project Only two characters revealed so far, “Mask of Devotion” (the main character in the trailer wears white) and “Umbra’s Mask” who seems to be someone you can fight in the sequence. introduce.
Project The Perceiver doesn’t have a release date yet. So far, it has been confirmed for PlayStation, and other platforms have yet to be announced.
There seems to be a trend towards open-world action games inspired by Dark Souls that are loosely set in historical fantasy from Chinese studios, such as Black Myth Wukong. It remains to be seen if Paper Games can disrupt a completely different genre with its usual fare, though if Love Nikki’s narrative arcs (Bloody Curse! War!) Shining Nikki’s 3D look is whatever happens – we should have high expectations.
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