In Phantom Blade Zero, Soul runs into objects that block his path or clutter a camp. Palisades and crates or jars break in two different ways, so it helps to know which button each one needs.
Quick answer: Press L Ctrl, the Phantom Edges key, at a palisade to smash it. Break crates and clay jars with ordinary light attacks on LMB.
How to break a palisade
Soul gets an L Ctrl prompt when approaching a palisade built from wooden stakes, large chains and red cloth.
In the default keyboard and mouse controls, L Ctrl is the Phantom Edges key. With an axe Phantom Edge equipped, pressing it at the palisade makes Soul swing the axe and smash the barrier. The path behind it then opens up, which is how you know it worked.
You can find one palisade in Weeping Creek Valley. It sits on the climb from The Axemaster’s Fall bell up toward the plateau near The Lady’s Cave bell, just past the second scratched wall you wall-run up. Be ready for a fight on the other side, because a Brute, a Spear Brute and a Mad Arsonist are waiting just beyond it.
Once smashed, the palisade stays broken. If Soul dies and comes back at a bell, the path remains open.
How to break crates and jars
Stacked wooden crates and clay jars don’t need a Phantom Edge. Plain light attacks on LMB are enough to break them.
At the Weeping Creek Valley camp next to The Lady’s Cave bell, use two light sword swings to break the stacked wooden crates and clay jar beside the campfire. Neither one drops anything.
