Ballad of Antara is a world-bending action-RPG coming to PS5 in 2025

Venture across two worlds alone or with friends.

[Snookies12]

No one talking about this?? It looked super unique! Definitely keeping my eye on it!

[blackblades]

IKR all these people are doing is whining how bad the SoP is. Like this is there first time with SoP. While me looking at this game and dynasty warriors origins and a few others like ok looks good to me.

[Christopher]

Both this and Where Winds Meet seem like a potential for new IPs in the arena of JRPGs. This one looks like a lot more focus on environs and story and I'm intrigued to see how the multiple characters play out in the story. I think Where Winds Meet is a bit more like Sekiro, but not as difficult I don't think.

[Chevalier]

Not JRPGs. Both are Wuxia type games made by Chinese studios set in Dynasty settings

[Christopher]

Eh, sure. Technically not, but definitely looking very much like. JRPG-like.

[shinoff2183]

Looked more like just action games to me. Maybe I missed something that makes it a jrpg

[Christopher]

Guess opinions, but it doesn't look or play like a typical Western RPG to me and Wuxia may have slightly different art styles in clothing and character designs, but otherwise has been copying JRPG in gameplay and design. My immediate thoughts swing to multiple Japanese developed souls-likes. Then there's the world and very character focused story elements that look very reminiscent of FromSoftware open worlds and FF cut scenes.

[Daver]

I thought it was very interesting until I read it was a free to play game.

[The_Hooligan]

Hope it is not a gotcha game. I personally do not play those games but doesn't mean others cannot enjoy them. I will wait and see how the FTP works for this game. The gameplay looked really good though. This and where the winds meet both looked great. Are these multiplatform or exclusives? I don't think I saw or read anywhere if they were or not.

My game of the show was Astro bot. Buying day one.

[VersusDMC]

After the success of stellar blade Sony is jumping on these souls like games. Love the look and the combat style.

[Christopher]

You do realize these deals were done months ago, right? They're just investing a ton in Japanese studios in general. For better or for worse.

[neutralgamer1992]

Most times years ago. It's not their first console they know what they are doing. Other company spends 100 billion and can't even stay competitive

[VersusDMC]

These are chinese studios. And Antara devs made a mobile/Switch souls like before and Sony is helping move into the AAA console space. Kinda like they did with Stellar blade.

Maybe they made the deal months ago and maybe not. But there was hype for stellar blade months ago as well.

[Einhander1972]

You do realize these deals were done years ago, right?

And it's not Japan that they are investing in it's China and Korea, they want the gacha money and China and Korea want western money and recognition.

Edit: I was reading an article a while back from a PlayStation Asia executive about how Genshin dramatically increased console adoption in Asia specifically China as they were able to pull mobile users into a relatively inexpensive console.

This is why you see the big push from PlayStation to get as many gacha games as they can on the platform, and the publishers are also eager to put their games on PlayStation. Nearly every big upcoming gacha game is coming to PlayStation.

The F2P model is also the perfect counter to subscriptions it's even cheaper for the consumer while also being extremely profitable.

[Christopher]

***Maybe they made the deal months ago and maybe not. But there was hype for stellar blade months ago as well. ***

Sure. Feels to me like you want to make the reason for these investments based on Stellar Blade to prop it up when in reality they're just done in parallel and because all the games match what Sony sees as potential sellers to their consoles base.

***You do realize these deals were done years ago, right?***

No, I don't. Neither do you. I went with months because it's definitely the least amount of time in which such a deal would be made to then have material to show during the show case. We technically have no clue when these were shopped around and finalized for platform release or even if Sony prevented a release that could have gone to more platforms as part of the deal.

[Rikimaru-00]

so ready for this game, this and where the winds meet hopefully will release mid next year on ps5

[LG_Fox_Brazil]

This one really got my attention

[rlow1]

Looks fun to me

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Fun to me :)

[jwillj2k4]

This game looked really good hope it doesn’t let us down.

[Psychonaut85]

This really peaked my interest. This and Where Winds Meet, once again a couple of Asian studios I’ve never heard of with games at a pretty high state of polish. Some great character and world design, hope they deliver.

[InUrFoxHole]

Uhh... Yes please!

[repsahj]

So excited with this!

[Vithar]

this is the game that caught my attention, looks ineresting

[Elda]

I thought this was interesting.

[DarXyde]

This and Where Winds Meet looked interesting to me. The latter could benefit from some tightening up, but both are on my watchlist.

[anast]

This looks solid.