 What's up everybody I'm the Mangus, you are awesome and we have big news coming out of Soul Leave with their Paragon Successor project called Over Prime. They recently released a video showcasing their work towards porting the game to the PS5. You can see them use a controller to make inputs on the homepage, select Fing Mal and then play him in a match. Before we go any further into this though, we need to address the Elfin in the room. You never actually see what the controller is plugged into, which has led many to believe that this was footage from just their work towards controller support and was played on a PC. I'm going to stick my neck out for Soul Leave a bit here and say that I personally believe that this was truly footage of the game being played on a PlayStation Dev Kit. The keyboard interface used at the beginning of the video is a PlayStation interface, not the Over Prime one, and the sounds you can hear are of obvious Sony origin. Yes, they could have faked it, but I don't think so. As to why they wouldn't just show the damn Dev Kit, Sony has put a lot of restrictions in place around the PS5 developer kit, especially after someone tried to sell one on eBay. I'm pretty sure Soul Leave is under some sort of NDA that prevents them from showing the hardware or the startup UI. I searched my ass off to try and find videos of anyone using the Dev Kit and the only one I could come up with was Pretty Jank. I think if people were allowed to show themselves developing games with the kit, they would. That's just my opinion. I'm sure many will disagree and I certainly understand community hesitation in believing that this was real console footage. Let me know in the comments what your opinions are. Moving on, even if this was just a demo of their work towards controller support, that's still pretty exciting news. They already had controller support for Over Prime, but from what I hear, it was a little jank. The footage we see here seems to be very smooth. Fing is moving well and his animations match his direction and momentum. They also display the use of callouts, which is an important function that is often missed in console ports. The UI is set up specifically for controller use and it doesn't seem like the player is having any difficulties. I do wish they would have used a ranged hero for the demo so we could see aiming functionality a little better, but beggars can't be choosers I suppose. This is your first time hearing about Over Prime, I'll give you a quick recap. Over Prime is being developed by a Korean team called Soul Leaf who has the backing of publisher Netmarble. The team includes Rocket Mania, who single-handedly created Over Throw Paragon years ago. Over Throw was never meant to be a sustainable game, it was more of a passion project to let people play their favorite heroes again in some way. Soul Leaf began production of a game called Prime X a few years ago that used the Paragon heroes but in more of a hero-battler style game. They made the decision to start working on a straight Paragon successor MOBA instead and Briar Rocket Mania on board. Since then we've seen several playable peer-to-peer versions of the game where they had a ton of content but not much polish. As the game progressed, they added servers and tightened everything up by making improvements to the maps and hero animations. After they were acquired by Netmarble, they shut the servers down to focus on the game. The last I played over Prime, they had a huge roster, two normal 5v5 maps, one was legacy inspired and the other was more monolith style, and they had one 3v3 ARAM map. If you want more in-depth info, I'll have their socials linked in the video description below. So no matter how you slice it, this is pretty big news for over Prime fans. If it was just a console port played on PC, then it's a big step. If it's actually being played on a dev kit as I suspect, then it's a huge step. We've heard a lot of news out of different Paragon Resurrection projects about console ports, but this is the first we've actually seen anyone doing it. I've had a rocky history with over Prime, I didn't enjoy the first few peer-to-peer iterations of the game and I still don't care much for the pacing that they're going for. Over Prime has been and looks to be now way too fast in version 42e for me. However, the work that they've put in has been amazing. The maps are beautiful, the animations are crisp, they have the fey, and if nothing else, they have top-notch controller support. Hopefully we'll get this one on Steam soon and even more hopefully we'll see it on PS5. I hope you enjoyed the video, hit the like button if you did, sub if you want to, but for now, this is the Mangoos signing off, you guys, have a good one. Goooooooooos! Shout out to Channel Members, Foolish Bloodhunter, Jelly Knees, and Yummits4Min.