{"id":1200061,"date":"2026-02-18T23:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qoTNVjx4Sb5ykeJSg2WDhc"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:23:52","slug":"silver-palace-may-look-like-your-ordinary-anime-game-but-its-hiding-a-deliciously-violent-combat-system-underneath-all-those-waifus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/silver-palace-may-look-like-your-ordinary-anime-game-but-its-hiding-a-deliciously-violent-combat-system-underneath-all-those-waifus\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Palace may look like your ordinary anime game, but it’s hiding a deliciously violent combat system underneath all those waifus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I feel like “Victorian anime detective RPG” is already a phrase manufactured in a lab to have me curiously downloading Silver Palace, a desire that was solidified 40 seconds into its announcement trailer: An unassuming woman is scanned, flashes of red warning text flooding the screen before the protagonist\u2026 straight up shoots her and watches as she turns into a grotesque wolf-like monster.<\/p>\n

Out of everything, I wasn’t expecting the combat to be the thing that piqued my interest the most. I’m not super into parry-based fighting\u2014which Silver Palace seems to be going all-in on\u2014but the trailer shows these little pockets of flair and violent razzle-dazzle that have me willing to give the whole thing a shot.<\/p>\n

One character rams a sword straight through a monster’s throat, another grabs an enemy from behind before plunging a syringe into their neck, and\u2014this is the one that really sold me on it\u2014an angelesque foe having her head smacked into the ground before a third waifu grabs her and snaps her neck.<\/p>\n

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There’s no blood, or gore, or anything else like that, but I think I’ve become so used to seeing slightly frillier animations in these types of games that I was wholly taken by surprise to see Silver Palace going a little gnarlier.<\/p>\n

It’s not just the battles that have caught my attention, though. Here are some other neat things I peeped from Silver Palace’s trailer and 10-minute gameplay video:<\/p>\n