And that’s perhaps most apparent in the newly revealed Hellwalker mode — a tough-as-nails hard difficulty that genuinely makes it feel like a different game. While Hellwalker is billed as a sort of “Hard Mode,” sheer difficulty clearly isn’t the intent behind it. What all this means is that combat feels drastically more dynamic and emergent. But the fact that S-Game simply seems to “get” what works about the game’s combat and difficulty is heartening. It’s a thoughtfulness you don’t often see, a consideration for what different players might want from Phantom Blade Zero.