{"id":84102,"date":"2026-06-08T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84102"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:40:10","slug":"blood-messages-melee-combat-is-much-more-impressive-than-the-initial-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84102","title":{"rendered":"Blood Message\u2019s Melee Combat Is Much More Impressive Than The Initial Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blood-message-neteases-new-aaa-single-player-project-revealed\/1100-6532579\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blood-message-neteases-new-aaa-single-player-project-revealed\/1100-6532579\/\">the debut trailer<\/a> for NetEase&#8217;s new AAA action title, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/blood-message\/\" id=\"631531\">Blood Message<\/a>, didn&#8217;t blow you away during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/summer-game-fest-live-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/summer-game-fest-live-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">Summer Game Fest<\/a>, then the follow-up video may make a better impression. Developer 24 Entertainment Lin&#8217;an has shared an extended look at Blood Message&#8217;s gameplay that reveals a greater cinematic flare for action that the initial footage failed to convey.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cSe_O_U5Gr0  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game takes place in Asia sometime in the ninth century during the Shazhou uprising. Players control Pei Changguan, a messenger who is sent on a mission to relay the news of the rebellion to Chang&#8217;an, the capital city of the Tang Empire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this level, Pei Changguan is joined by his brother, Arrati, as they discover atrocities committed by Tubo soldiers who are desperately looking for a letter with vital intel. Changguan and his brother are able to dispatch a handful of the hostile forces with stealth attacks and QTEs. But some of the fights become epic sword battles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While a few of the enemies appear to hold back, it&#8217;s refreshing that there are times when they attack players from multiple directions at once. The level appears to be heavily scripted, but the way the action unfolds should remind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the debut trailer for NetEase&#8217;s new AAA action title, Blood Message, didn&#8217;t blow you away during Summer Game Fest, then the follow-up video may make a better impression. Developer 24 Entertainment Lin&#8217;an has shared an extended look at Blood Message&#8217;s gameplay that reveals a greater cinematic flare for action that the initial footage failed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":84104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84105,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84102\/revisions\/84105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}