Tides of Annihilation Is Way Better Than I Expected

Awesome. Sick. Thank you so much. All right. All right. All right. Here it is. Yeah. This is a beautiful booth. Oh my gosh. They got a sword. This place looks awesome. I can't wait for this game, dude. It's going to be so good. So, there's a special demo. I think this is their first look they've ever shown publicly for Tides of [music] Annihilation. This game was uh I think it was about a couple years ago this game was announced. I remember whenever they they showed the game, it was like unanimous. People were like, "Wait, what is this game? This game looks sick. Is it a new Final Fantasy? is in a new souls like game. Like what is it? And it's like tides of Annihilation, new IP, new game. Of course, Eastern kicking everybody's ass right now. So yeah, this is a 45minute demo. This is a session. It's 45 minutes. We're already a few minutes behind cuz we're getting set up, but exclusive look. Getting a first look at the game. Little over the shoulder cam. Let's play it. So thank you for taking part. The game's progress saves automatically. Once the timer runs out, your overall completion will be tallied. This is a work in progress. Doesn't represent the final quality of the release. If you need help during your session, raise your hand and a staff member will assist you. Thanks and enjoy. Cool. Then we can get a we can get a chance to like talk to talk to somebody too if you want to. Let's do standard mode because I think this [music] is like the most honest look. Okay, so it looks like there's four parts to the demo that they have. There's a tutorial, there's a main story, boss challenge. Let's start with the tutori Oh, you have to unlock. Okay, well tutorial anyway. The journey is about to begin. Before you depart, why not pay a visit to your master and hears guidance? That's not English. >> Now go show me. >> The Marshall S guidein. It's been a while. Have your skills growing rusty? Time is short. Let's run through the fundamentals. Okay. Simple tutorial here. Uh fun combat. L stick to select attack direction. And you t you you click it in order to target lock. R3 is lock on to switch targets. Circle to dodge. Basic attack to square. Okay. Very smooth. Uh triangle for the main knight skills. >> And then R2 for the sub knight skills. >> You can activate a sub knight skill while using a main knight skill. So, if I go triangle R2, then I can switch the knight sets. Okay. Oh, so these are your knights. So, while you're attacking, those summons are your knights. I understand. Cuz I was like, what the hell? Who the hell are these other guys? Each knight has unique traits. Use any of the following skills to hit enemies. Equip the left side knight. Square square triangle. Equip the right side knight. Hold triangle. You get three levels of charge. And then you unleash it. L1 triangle and you watch say >> cool. Okay. Um when the gauge is full, I put the left side knight and then hold L1 triangle. Crimson punch. Put the right side knight and hold triangle. Shorten the charge time. Okay, cool. Back move until the toughness drops to break threshold. Okay, this is like a typical stagger with the yellow bar. So that first threshold is a stagger grapple finisher R1. You grab Oh, okay. Fog claw counter. He swings R1. I parry dodge yellow flash. Okay, you can jump out of the way with X. So you don't just have to circle dodge. L3. R3. When the energy bar in the upper left is full, that's your burst. And then R1 is up. Yeah, it looks like the Kale ultimate from uh Modern League. Got R1 to execute the enemy. Sick. Sick, [laughter] dude. This looks so good. Yeah, this is good, dude. The combat is like super super fluid. The tactility is wonderful. Press any button to return. Cool. Insane gameplay. Thank you. All skill. All skill. Scarlet threads. Oh, are you all right? >> These two are so annoying. >> Oh, frig. >> Turn back, my lady. >> You know I won't. Not without the grail [music] shot. Gather must not wake. Can I can [music] break one variety of demo content is available. Use quick chapter select. So it's like a special build they put together for this show, dude. A 45minute demo. No wonder this line has been so dude. Okay, this is deep water. I thought it was just like like a like a swamp that you go through. Okay, press X really climb up it. Any zip liners? Can I jump off? Can't catch it again. Double jump. Okay, go. Early early. Yeah, early early. The tide's annihilation. Wow, this is beautiful, dude. >> What's wrong? Can you feel that? >> The grail shard is in there. >> That's the reading room. Let's take a look around. I actually I didn't expect that at all >> for them to be like funny. >> They say the sorceress is to >> How do you know what they're saying? >> We can't cross through until we put it back. There was a stone tablet depicting a god with a jackal for a head weighing something. >> The book of the dead >> doesn't sound like a fun read. >> The sorceresses seem to like a little drama. Come on, let's check the Egyptian gallery. Oh, and since we're already here, fancy a look at their new wares. >> Why not? [music] >> Spend aether to purchase goods from stores. Sell unwanted items in exchange for Aether. Uh, some stores offer rare items. Okay, that's the currency. Hey. Yeah. [music] Skyward Gauntlets, Echoing Arrow. Dude, the art is [music] wonderful in this game, man. Look at this. Buy, sell, categories. Okay, I mean, we're poor, so we can't buy anything [music] except for increase attack by 15, critical by 15, critical damage. Do I buy or do I wait? Reduces [music] Oh, these are like like effects. reduces damage taken while airborne. It has like raw stats, but it has like some kind of uh secondary effect when Gwen's health [music] first falls below 50% restore health. You rest the oath blade. So, it's like a you little little automatic potion or these emblems or something. These emblems are like also special effects. It looks like that like uh after dealing damage with the night skill, there's a chance to summon a meteor which deals additional damage. Um. Oh, they're sad. I didn't buy anything. Okay, I'm going to buy. They're sad. I have to buy something. Okay. Wolf's main drought. Hey. Oh, that's so funny. It did the It did the Justin Wong. Did you see that? Oh, that's so funny, dude. Oh, I got to send that to Justin. That's so funny. [music] Dude, that's amazing. Oh, it's so freaking funny. Okay, where do we go? >> Is it a [music] souls like it's uh I No, it's more like action combat. What is the dead? Uh, London Travel Guide. >> It's a guide. It teaches the dead [music] how to navigate the underworld. >> London Travel Guide is Book of the Dead. >> Final judgment, like a test, more or less. I would say it plays a little bit like Final Master 16 a little bit so far, but I mean just that's just from the tutorial. [music] Uh fully restore health, quick travel, oak blade throne. Okay, dude. The artist that sword looks sick. Just the art in general. Advanced training difficulty. Cool. Dude, mic in the headphones is actually a good strat. It's not going to be the best audio quality, but it I think it works. [music] 3D's intelligence is having fun. You know what's funny about this? It's like we're like in this medieval kind of like Roman Greek architectural, but then they have printed banners. [music] Oh, Aether. Wait, wait. I get it that easy. Nope. There's fall damage. Okay, fall damage test is complete. Oh, restore my health. Restore my health. >> Oh, demo countdown 31 minutes. It dropped from above. Can't believe it. Manager [ __ ] whole batch. Okay, I don't want to spend too much time reading these because we don't have that much time in the demo. I just want to break these things because it's fun. And then we're going to keep going. Let's get Let's get some more action. Oh, it's being wedge. Oh, frick. [music] You guys are going to shoot me. All right. One, two, three. Knight. And then I do the R2 for to the sub9 attack. R1 to throw. Oh gosh. R1 to throw. Grapple. Triangle sub knight and R1 on the bottom. Oh, hello. Oh, R2. QT god. Sub knight [music] assist for the R2. Oh, frag for all my damage. Can I jump? Okay, well, it's fine. Can I jump and then aerial attack? Oh my god, [music] that hit me. Okay. Square, a square, a square, a triangle. R2 out of it. Dodge. I should get a stagger in there. And I can R1 out of the stagger in the air. R1. Oh, I thought I said like I can throw like the mark. Okay, nice. So, I'm leaving. Oh, you can R1 to count. That's right. R1 and smash. Sick. >> Yeah, this game's amazing. I already the combat weapon curve death blade. A little curve is Little Curve is okay. Equipment enhances equivalents combat capabilities. Cool. It's so good. Press R1 to pick up the lava heart. Hold L2, then aim, then R2. Throw it. After throwing it, press R1 again to detonate. Aim at the center of the lava barrier to maximize the damage. >> Okay, there. >> Cool. >> Who's the voice actor for >> over there? >> Does somebody look that up for me? >> That's the Egyptian gallery. Voice actor is good. >> We could use that zip line on the right to get across. >> I wish I had wings >> to get around faster. >> No, I just >> reminds me of Bayonetta Devil May Cry. Yeah, it kind of does have like the similar sort of combat. That's I mean that's kind of Final Fantasy 16ish too cuz I think the uh the guy who did the what was the role? One of the developers, I think it was the guy in charge of I think it was the [music] director for Devil May Cry did the combat for Final Fantasy 16, I think. I can't remember exactly, but there was some crossover there. To rid the world of a curse being prowling these must be a nasty sword to single him out. He looks cruel, cunning, and kills with neither restraint nor reason. >> If I find him, >> I will show no mercy. >> What would his voice be? I guess his voice. I think his voice [music] would be Hachu Grandpa voice. Is it the same matrix as Resident Evil 9? is a kung ha we kung fu the kung fu guy. These patterns they are so beautiful nothing like the art we know. This area is not available in this build. Oh wait, hold on. Let me see. Armor cons consume. consume. Dude, you can you can chain dodge, which makes me think that there's probably no I frames, which I probably should have already noticed, or even the frame windows probably really small. Keep in mind, this is like an alpha build specifically [music] made for Gamescom. >> Speaking of which, here comes practice. >> Oh, practice. Oh, hello. That's cool. Nice. Oh, he blocked. He blocked it. Okay, I'm going to use this wolf's bane route. Okay, there's eyebrows. Oh, frick. Oh, I'm getting Oh, wait. I'm going to run. Spin round. Okay. Got this big stagger. Big stagger. Big stagger. Nice. Beautiful. Beautiful. Sub. Oh, big parry. Huge execute. Yeah, that was sick. Okay, cool. Badges the earth shaker. That was sick. Gwend is voiced by Jennifer English. Oh, classic. So, this is the next game of the year whenever it comes out. I met her actually last game uh recovery game looks really good. It's really good. Nice green different burst skills. Okay, I didn't use the bursts. Okay, it's okay. Okay. Uh next checkpoint. Let me see how much time we have left in our demo. 22 minutes. 22. Got to be 22. Grace potion. Okay. So, okay. L2 for arrow, but then you can do a uh fire arrow that creates a zip line. Okay. Hello. So, that's a knight that helps with that. Then I zipline. >> There's something hanging up there. Should we try shooting it? We >> should shoot him, brother. Hold L2. Left right to aim with Bors. R2 Fire and Arrow. So this is all like all the names are like Arthuran Camelot. They're shooting. I don't know if you guys noticed. What time is it? It is 9:29 a.m. Grieves of Aarus. Let's keep on next spot. Move heavy objects R1 and L. Summon Palamades. How do you pronounce Palamines? Is it Palamades? Palamines. I never I never knew how it. But yeah, you summon like Oh, wait. Is it like knights of the round table you summon? Wait, I just stood in front of it. No wonder I couldn't move it. Wait, is Gwindelon heavy? When airborne 10 m, press L1 squared to Oh, [music] I was supposed to fall on that. I just Okay. It's called Tides of Annihilation. It's that game from uh State of Play from years ago. Oh, L1 and this. Nice. Oh, brick. The animation is so one thing to notice is like in the tutorial I didn't understand this right away but it said during a night attack and I was like what the hell is a night And that's the summons, right? So like I guess she she gets like the knights of the round table or something to help her. >> So it's like a knight attack is is square or triangle and then the sub attack sub a secondary knight comes in. It says press R2 during a knight attack. So that's while triangle is summoned. Hit R2 to get a secondary summon. So one of you guys play the game. Oh, the shortcut. I don't like the shortcut. Cool. That means I'm probably going to die soon. I love the Eastern Studios focus on combat and gameplay. Yeah, that's the thing, man. Like how the game feels is so important. That's what keeps people playing cuz even like it's like, okay, well, there's games that are definitely more story driven or whatever. You would think a good example of that is Balders's Gate, and it is, but even Balders's Gate, like, and that's not an Eastern Studio, right? But my point being is that the tactility of that game, like it [music] feels freaking good to be like, "Okay, I'm popping. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, roll the dice. How much damage is it going to do?" It's like, boom, boom, divine strikes. It's like, oh my gosh, that's sick, you know? Hold L2 left or right channel power balance. Oh, a punch. Big punch. Yeah. Wait, I didn't get the answer. Is it Calamities or Palamines? Cuz I was in Palamines as a kid, but now I don't know anymore. There was a trailer for this game a couple years ago at uh PlayStation State to play and it like blew everybody away. New IP, new game. Everyone's like, "What the hell is this?" And it [music] like even like freaking the complainy Twitch chats were like, "Wait, what? What the hell just happened when that trailer came out?" So, I'm pretty sure this is the first gameplay they've actually put out for people to get to play. >> Egyptian. Okay. So, down here. I go back up. Yeah, go back up for sure. I bet that Oh, that's a bad guy. Nope. Baited. Okay. He These guys are bad guys for sure. Yeah. [music] Can I just punch him in the water? Oh, that's so funny. Oh, what is that? Uh, sand gold thread tempering material. Okay. Crafting system, I assume. It's just showing that there's like some arcane lock and you can't go this way. But then here, is it going to be PlayStation exclusive? I don't know. I think it's on PC. It's like on PC right now. Egyptian gallery. >> Who's this? Not so much. Ramsey's the second. Look at the dead. Must be close. Let's keep looking. >> I don't think we have that much time, so I'm going to try and rush a little more. They get to another boss fight or something. Boss fight. Any looters? Okay. And the knights keep fighting. I got to go loot. Immortal Sands Regalia. That's iron. Kind of like this one more. Uh just to show. So there's going to be different I mean were there stats on that? Are there stats? >> Yeah. Some kind of mechanism. >> Take a look at this. >> A feather of m >> feather of m. So what do you do with a feather of m? >> [music] >> Find what the mechanism needs. So, a feather of m [music] lasers. Let's do this. cranking. Oh, I wasn't looking at what I was doing. I was just doing ah feather of mont. Only one left. >> I can't read the symbol. It's blocked. >> So, I got to open this somehow. >> There must be a way through. Let's keep looking. >> Are these like lasers for security? These lasers here. So, I got to put the other guy here somehow. How do I feel with him to How [music] do I get up there? I have to Oh, I got to go around. How much time do I have that light on? How much time? 03 forge 10 minutes. Okay, 10 minutes to to do this puzzle. Maybe after this puzzle I just go to a a challenge. Yeah, they don't have a [music] date yet for this game, but this is going to be a uh this is going to be a contender, I think, chat. I think it's a contender already. Oh, whoa. Arrow. Shoot R1. I never got an answer to my calamities. Did [music] I? Or did I? And I didn't rechad. Beatles. >> Scare them lord. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Morning. Oo. Yeah, man. The art, the animations, the combat. >> Okay. >> The the sound cues. I mean, so far everything is great about this game. I I really really like it. So, scarab lord arcane bird. I feel like that looks different. That scar looks different. I couldn't tell that was a scarab present. In my head, the scar look different. R1 R1. The book of the dead is filled with an unknown presence. Continue [music] the resonance indubably. I hope this is a boss fight. I mean, I see a boss fight in the demo. >> Racies for seconds are personal copies. I assumed it was an actual book. >> You know what they say about the suns of you and me. We're inside the book. Uh, tell me so. >> Get out of here. >> Oh, frick. What? Dude, he has It's not a one-hander. It's not a two-hander. It's a no-hander. Anubis is old. Okay, I haven't touched it. I'm scared. Grace potion. What does that do? Restores three health per second for 15 seconds. Okay, actually that's a that's a good equip. That's a good equip. I should have saved my my potion from earlier. Some night sub night again. We're doing good damage actually. >> [music] >> Oh, big damn. I'm going go ahead and pop this potion up. ads. You got ads. Okay. Was this freaking season one in the Grand Arena? >> That was super long. I thought I think he was charged up front. You guys understand go and drink now and not be stupid. Oh. Oh, just staggered. Just have to execute damn. I feel like there's a Q. No, never mind. After defeating it as Gwen claims the power across the gate, she now dashed the [music] gates towards the gates. He's not He's not dead. I know. Yeah. 5 minutes left. We need the demo. And balance has returned. Just kidding. Not enough. Oh, frick. Dr. Octopus. Wait, phase two. Dude, super secret classic. I'm trying to drink Big Perry. Double parry. Triple berry. Oh, switching ice. Where's he going? Oh, he's stuck in the ground. 30 points to distributors attack R1. He still has a lot of health left. 3 minutes. Are we going to finish three, dude? Okay. Okay. I got it. Get it. Get it. Get it. Okay. Okay. Dude, it was like one of those Japanese game shows that I was like, "Wait, you got you got to fit into a hole. Okay. So, this is probably also a whole fitter. Dude, this game is so good. 2 minutes. Oh, can I finish? Oh my gosh. I might not be able to finish getting blowed up. Where am I, dude? Where is he? Dude, I feel like I'm playing JP and Street Fighter. Change knives again. Night attack. Sub attack. Change knives again. Attack. Sub attack. I feel like I feel like it's like ripping time attack then switch again attack again attack again Big stagger. There's 54 seconds. Is this him? I hope this is him. Please don't be facing me. >> It's coming down. Oh no. >> Oh GG's. saved. >> Dude, there's no way I'm going to finish the cut scene. There's totally a third phase. No, the cliffhanger. The cliffhanger. [laughter] Cinema. The game couldn't have ended at a better time. Amazing. Um, wait, what? Dude, how long is this demo >> cinema? Amazing. Well, chat, we're going to see uh we're going to see when this game comes out. Amazing. What? >> Well, I guess this is for like, you know, cuz we played through the tutorial and we like we went through all the steps. Like, if you're speedr runninging, you probably get get there pretty quick. Incredible. Insanely positive reception to like the first impression of this game. Uh, finally getting a chance to play it. I can't wait, man. I think Titanation is going to be really, really good. So, the combat feels very like Final Fantasy 16, Devil May Cry-ish. Kind of that sort of like action combat, like uh the combos, it's like square, square, triangle, R2, stuff like that. You know, swapping to the different knights with the left and right D-pad. Really good. Art's beautiful. Sound design. It's great, man. 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