The great thing about the emerging Chinese development scene is that truly amazing titles can seemingly come from nowhere, and that’s certainly the case with Tides of Annihilation.

This London-based character action title simply looks incredible, and is shaping up to be the PS5’s next big thing.

An extended gameplay demo follows on from the release’s announcement at State of Play this week, and it just looks brilliant. While you’ll play as heroine Gwendolyn, the system will see you summoning spectral knights to fight by your side, each with different capabilities and combos.

So, you’ll need to think carefully about your loadouts and how you want to implement these spectral knights into your approach. We suppose some good points of comparison would be Final Fantasy 16 and Wuthering Waves, both of which see you utilising different summons as part of their combat systems.

The video shows off more than just combat, too. It also reveals how the aforementioned spectral knights will fit into the title’s puzzle mechanics and traversal, while we also get to see some amazing set-piece moments, as the world transitions between modern and medieval London.

Aside from some performance hiccups – this is an early build – we reckon the game looks absolutely unbelievable. It’ll be enhanced on the PS5 Pro, so you can expect the best possible image quality at 60fps.

This one has rocketed right to the top of our wishlist.

[source youtube.com]