As part of an overnight livestream, Sony revealed another PS5 title coming from its China Hero Project initiative: Dhaba: Land of Watermarks. It shall form part of the program's third wave of games out of the country, which also includes The Winds Rising from F.I.S.T. developer TiGames. Dhaba: Land of Watermarks is being made by Dark Star, which previously put out Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption. Check out the announcement trailer above.
As per Gematsu, here's an overview of the PS5 game: "Dhaba: Land of Watermarks is a new title from Dark Star. It tells the story of a humanoid clay puppet. When the world is on the verge of collapse, the puppet traces the whereabouts of the water fragments within the ancient city, and throughout their journey of defeating enemies and seeking answers, unravels the story of the world and oneself."
It sounds like the game will be structured a bit like Dark Souls, with "non-linear levels" that are "interconnected, distinct, and intricate". You'll visit the likes of "a magnificent ancient city, gloomy prison, vast rift valley, expansive snowfield, deadly forest, and a floating city". What are your first impressions of Dhaba: Land of Watermarks? Share them all in the comments below.
[source gematsu.com]
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This looks amazing but I hope it isn’t vaporware. I really want to see these games release.
This looks awesome. One to keep an eye on.
I saw “Hero game” and came in here expecting something similar to Overwatch. Looks good, although I have enough Souls type games to play through already. I’ve barely touched Demon Souls.
This game news is mentioned in the previous game news article, which also mentions this game. It's almost as if both games could've been covered by one article. If I were being paid by the article I'd do the same 😆
If this plays half as good as it looks it will be amazing. I'm with it.
Have we actually seen /any/ of these AAA-looking games from out of China?
@munkholt No, we haven't, at least for the more ambitious looking titles. That's why I don't get excited.
@riceNpea Good job I'm not being paid by the article then isn't it! They are two different games that warrant their own articles.
@munkholt
It isn't AAA but Anno Mutationem is from this China Hero Project. I really liked that one but as far as the more big budget looking titles, they haven't really come out to play yet.
@Korgon FIST is the other one but I can't think of any others outside of those two.
This was the only game they announced that looked cool.
I like the bow lady's design, and the big bell boss enemy.
Ya know I find it funny and strange that Sony seems to be going harder for these Chinese games than they do japanese games. Like I know Japanese games don't meet sales expectations a lot of the time so it's understandable why they strayed away from them, but the Chinese games don't look much different in concept. Sure theyre pretty and all but not really anything that looks much different from what japanese devs have been putting out for years.
Not to mention that we've only seen like 3 of these games actually release yet they keep announcing even more
@munkholt hah no . must have seen 4 or 5 of them in action to the point we’ll have seen every boss, yet not even close they all appear quite formulaic but if that formula is some of the more interesting looking 3rd person adventures with finer aesthetics we’ll continue to wait. ..
@munkholt Xuan Yuan Sword 7 is from Taiwan and is pretty good.
This one looks pretty good. Glad to see one of these projects actually had gameplay.
My first impressions are very good. Though I'd love to see some of these Chinese games at some point
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