Phantom Blade Zero is a single-player kung-fu soulslike where one bar, Sha-Chi, feeds both your offence and your defence, and more than 50 named bosses stand between Soul and the credits. Pick the group that matches what you are stuck on — each link answers one question and links onward to the next one.
Meet the bosses
- Boss roster — Every named boss, the region it waits in and what it drops.
- Final boss and the last fight — Meng Hua, the gold portal afterwards, and the fight behind it.
- Puppet bosses — The Four Great Puppets, and why bleed does nothing to them.
- Adaptive bosses — How Hellwalker AI reads your spacing and punishes repeats.
Gear and builds
- Weapon roster — Every Blade, its class, where it comes from and how it upgrades.
- Weapon types — What Single, Twin and Heavy Blades each do in a fight.
- Best weapons — Picks for bosses, crowds and shields, plus the recommended pairing.
- Phantom Edges — The second slot, every source, and the keys hiding inside it.
- Builds — A working loadout, the accessories that matter and what to upgrade first.
Fighting well
- Combat guide — Attack tiers, the three ways to take a hit, stagger and guard break.
- Sha-Chi — The one bar that offence and defence both spend.
- Parry — Attack colours, the timing window and the training drill that fixes it.
- Tips and tricks — The habits that change fights instead of adding length.
Difficulty and modes
- Difficulty levels — Wayfarer, Pathbreaker and Hellwalker compared side by side.
- 66 Days mode — The permadeath challenge and how to unlock it.
- New Game Plus — What carries over into a second run, and how to start one.
Collect and explore
- Collectibles — Every set and exactly how many of each you need.
- World map — Eight regions, Bells, fast travel and item gates.
- Secrets — Hidden arenas, the Illusory Pipa and the Mirrorwood maze.
- Memory Flowers — Sets, health gains and the boss phases they unlock.
- Blackstones — 40 fragments, 10 whole stones and the Discordance key.
- Outfits and cosmetics — the eight outfits, the pre-order and Deluxe rewards, and the dated Fortnite promotion.
PC setup
- Controls — PS5 and PC layouts, remapping and which device suits you.
- PC performance — Requirements and the settings that actually move the frame rate.
- Stuttering fixes — Driver, NVMe, shader cache, overlays and frame pacing.
- Version history — The day-one patch, what it changed, and the driver rollback.
- DLSS — What the 4.5 suite gives you and how far the RTX cards have to go.
- Steam Deck — Valve's rating status, the tested settings and the measured frame rates.
Achievements
- Trophy guide — A route through all 66 in a single playthrough.
- Trophy list — Every achievement name and its unlock condition.
The Phantom Blade Zero campaign
- Walkthrough — Region order, and the four bosses whose kills end side quests forever.
- Endings — Eight endings, the true ending checklist and how to recover a missed run.
