[00:15] the stories players discover through exploration and the traces left behind throughout this world. In this video, we'll show how that exploration connects to combat and
[00:28] and what kinds of bosses players will face at the end of that journey. begins with exploration. You walk the path, fight enemies, and
[00:43] discover the records left behind. Those records lead to new paths, sometimes to rewards, and sometimes to places where powerful bosses await.
[00:56] Exploration is not simply time spent moving from place to place. Exploration leads to combat. Combat leads to rewards, and the [music] rewards lead back to new choices and deeper exploration.
[01:14] Combat in the realm is not [music] simply about reducing an enemy's health. Every enemy has its own stamina. Players can reduce enemy stamina through attacks and parries. When their stamina is fully depleted,
[01:28] When their stamina is fully depleted, the enemy enters the groggy state. This moment becomes an important opportunity to turn the tide of battle. But attacking blindly will not be enough to take control of the fight.
[01:43] When to attack, when to step in, which attacks to evade, and which attacks [music] to parry, those decisions can change the outcome of battle. The player's stamina is not used for attacks, but for defensive actions such
[01:59] as dodging and guarding. The tempo of offense is created through the combination of weapons, skills, and relics. Stamina remains an important resource for surviving dangerous moments.
[02:15] The relic aims for fast-paced combat, but we wanted decision-making and rhythm [music] to remain alive within that speed.
[02:36] who hated poverty [music] and dust of his village. He wanted to leave behind his small, poor village and gain treasure and fame. But what he pushed away was not merely a humble meal.
[02:52] It was the time his mother spent working for him, the warmth of the home that waited for him, and the feelings [music] he could never express until the end. All of it remained here, buried in the dust.
[03:11] but the only person he wanted to show that to was no longer by his side. The dust he hated so much eventually became an irreversible regret, and that regret bound him in place. >> [screaming]
[03:26] >> At the edge of the village, before a shabby house, the player faces a being left at the end of that regret, the prodigal bound in dust.
[03:44] story of a man who realized too [music] late everything he had abandoned. In both battles, the combat decisions made so far become even more important.
[03:58] Watch the bosses' movements, evade their attacks, break their stamina with parries, and use skills and relics to create and use skills and relics to create brief openings.
[04:13] >> [music] >> they can parry and interrupt the flow of >> they can parry and interrupt the flow of battle.
[04:25] Boss battles are not one-sided moments of attack. They're exchanges where decisions are made in every brief moment.
[04:41] but he too is one of the stories [music] left behind in this world.
[05:12] After defeating the boss, the player discovers the final trace of this story. The treasure and fame he pursued all his life never reached his mother.
[05:27] veil, we beg you, we beg you, let me be your son once more. >> The hollow worries left upon the rejected meal and the foul greed
[05:42] stained upon the boots, but with her life's blood, the boundless love of a mother who departed, departed, embracing all his hypocrisy as treasure,
[05:54] embracing all his hypocrisy as treasure, eventually became an irreversible guilt, devouring the man's soul. His unreached atonement now pulls him not forward, but into the silence of a home that
[06:09] longs for a voice where she once brushed the dust from his shoes, the dust from his shoes, hold only his name.
[06:25] It was only a cold [music] sealing stone hardened by regret. Only in death did he leave behind a confession that never reached his mother. If there is another life, he asks her
[06:41] [music] to be the mother of her foolish son once more. In the life, he will not be ashamed of the dust upon his shoes. >> He will finish the warm meal his mother prepared for him and stay by her side
[06:57] prepared for him and stay by her side until the end. simply an enemy to be defeated. >> [music]
[07:10] world. And sometimes there are compassions that never spoken in time. But this is only one of many stories left behind in this world. In this world,
[07:25] countless beings born from different desires and regrets, rage and obsession, sacrifice [music] and desire are sacrifice [music] and desire are waiting.
[07:53] >> Now the remaining stories are yours to discover.
[08:37] your story awaits. >> [music]