Lost Soul Aside, a spectacle fighter where your dragon pal turns into a hoverboard, is coming out in May

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The trailer for Lost Soul Aside shown at Sony's State of Play showcase really buries the lede. A girl dreams about an invasion of monsters, but you're the chosen one and official only hope, blah blah blah. Your best friend is a floating crystal dragon head who sounds like he's doing a Liam Neeson impersonation, and he says some stuff about your destiny. One minute in I was already stifling a yawn.

Lost Soul Aside calls itself "a stylish single player action-adventure RPG" and looks kind of like a cross between the last two Final Fantasy games and Devil May Cry (it's got music by Devil May Cry 5 composer Cody Matthew Johnson too). There are combos and you get to fight both human-sized opponents and straight-up kaiju, but it's the traversal stuff that's piqued my interest. Yes, I want to be able to hoverboard even when I'm playing a guy who can grow wings.

Lost Soul Aside is being developed by Chinese studio Ultizero, who showed off 18 minutes of footage back in 2021 if you'd like to see more of how it plays. It's due out on May 30, and there's a Steam page where you can wishlist it now.

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