In the frame above Close-up of a heavy grey hood, red points glowing in the shadow inside it.
Key facts
Boss · Bounty
The Hunt
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Chinese name, not yet confirmed: 追命Our translationChineseName sources for The Hunt
The pre-order announcement speaks of
“crossing blades with former comrades like The Hunt”
It does not call The Hunt a boss. Official · PlayStation Blog, 11 August 2026
First shown: The pre-order trailer.
Sources so far: a minute of official footage, the PlayStation Blog’s mention of him, and three previews: Geek Culture, Console Creatures, and a Chinese chapter 1 preview whose boss we match to him.
Watch the footage
About a minute of the fight, from 2:59 in the official pre-order trailer (Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, August 2026), all of it on the moving cart. YouTube loads only when you press play.
Phases and mechanics
- Context, not a tactic: Metal clashes need precise timing (general remark about the cart fight) Press-reported · Console Creatures
The Hunt attacks and how to counter
Attacks seen 5
These labels are our plain descriptions; the game has published no move names.
- Dual scythes on the cart Hooded, wields dual scythes; the whole fight is on the moving horse cart. Press-reported · Geek Culture
- Long strings Opens with long strings that seem to leave you no turn. Press-reported · Gamersky our name match
- Hook line raised On the moving cart he raises one arm with a line or hook stretched upward. Seen in the pre-order trailer at 3:09. Official · Pre-order trailer
- Scythe swing from the horses He attacks from beside the cart, by the horses, with a long curved scythe blade. Seen in the pre-order trailer at 3:21. Official · Pre-order trailer
- Swing-in from above He swings down on a line from above toward the player at the front of the cart. Seen in the pre-order trailer at 3:35. Official · Pre-order trailer
How to counter 1
- Every big-move wind-up gives a Ghostep window; one sure counter earns a full round of attacks. Press-reported · Gamersky our name match
Frame by frame
His plate reads “The Hunt, Hunter of the Order” from 3:01. The road runs through a gorge of rock arches and pines, and the camera never leaves the cart. His moves have no published names.
3:04Pre-order trailer · Phantom Blade Zero
- Still A hooded figure with glowing red eyes swings a hooked weapon over the cart while a triangle button prompt shows at its chest; two horses pull the cart on the right.
- Seen A button prompt appears on him at close range; the trailer does not say what it does.
- Counter The Chinese preview says the boss it names, which we match to The Hunt, gives a Ghostep window at every big-move wind-up, and that one sure counter earns a full round of attacks. Press-reported Gamersky chapter 1 preview, 9 Oct 2026 (in Chinese; our translation).
Official frame at 3:04.62, YouTube hXyPbvj7A7w · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
3:09Pre-order trailer · Phantom Blade Zero
- Seen On the cart he raises one arm with a line or hook stretched upward.
3:21Pre-order trailer · Phantom Blade Zero
- Seen He attacks from beside the cart, down by the horses, with a long curved scythe blade.
3:36Pre-order trailer · Phantom Blade Zero
- Still The hooded figure comes at the cart from the roadside, weapon raised, while the player stands on the cart bed with a blade.
- Seen He comes in from the side of the road rather than from the cart bed.
- Reported Geek Culture: “a hooded figure who wields dual scythes, with the intense fight also occurring entirely while they are on the back of the horse cart”. Press-reported Geek Culture, 12 Aug 2026.
Official frame at 3:36.10, YouTube hXyPbvj7A7w · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
3:45Pre-order trailer · Phantom Blade Zero
- Still On the cart bed the hooded figure brings two curved blades down at the player, who blocks low with a red blade.
- Seen Blade against two blades on the cart bed.
- Counter Console Creatures: “The metal clangs required precise timing.” Press-reported Console Creatures, 8 Oct 2026.
Official frame at 3:45.38, YouTube hXyPbvj7A7w · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
Where The Hunt is fought and what it drops
- Fought entirely on a speeding horse-drawn cart, at the end of a chase sequence; a mini-boss. Press-reported · Console Creatures
- Drops No drop recorded in the sources we read.
To be confirmedWhere: the chapter; only the Chinese preview we match to him puts that fight in chapter 1. What it gives: any drop; none of the sources we read records one.