There’s one thing genuinely nice about a huge monster lumbering towards you within the distance and considering, “I’m going to climb that factor and stab it within the head.” A brand new indie “supergroup” studio, Yellow Brick Video games, has simply revealed Everlasting Strands, and it seems prefer it’s going to be an thrilling mix of massive concepts drawn from video games like Monster Hunter, Shadow of the Colossus, and Dragon’s Dogma 2.
Yellow Brick Video games is a Quebec Metropolis-based studio shaped by former Dragon Age director Mike Laidlaw and three colleagues he met throughout his post-BioWare stint at Ubisoft, the place he had labored on a now-canceled sport codenamed Undertaking Avalon. These embody Frederic St-Luarent B., Jeff Skalski, and Thomas Giroux, who’ve labored on main Ubisoft sequence like Murderer’s Creed and Watch Canine.
Everlasting Strands is an action-adventure sport that’s rooted in physics-based techniques. The hero, Brynn, is “a younger and fearless Weaver decided to get better her individuals’s cultural dwelling by uncovering the mysteries of the Enclave – a as soon as highly effective nation that now lies dormant.” To try this, she’ll must scale and defeat behemoths referred to as Arks that may tower over 25 meters excessive, and wield each magic and the climate itself.
Each floor in Everlasting Strands, not simply the large Arks, is climbable, and the surroundings can be utilized as a weapon. In accordance with Yellow Brick Video games, you’ll be capable to set tree trunks on hearth and hurl them into enemies with Brynn’s telekinesis, and block enemy assaults along with her ice magic.
The studio says it’s leaning into the emergent gameplay created by these highly effective talents, and so gamers will be capable to improvise new methods to make use of Brynn’s magic as they discover the world and uncover new powers.
“It’s a really totally different sport to ones I’ve labored on previously, and it’s been a delight to typically reply the query ‘what if the participant does X?’ with ‘Cool!’” Laidlaw says. “It’s additionally thrilling to have an opportunity to construct an all-new world that encourages and reacts to this sort of play.”
Yellow Brick Video games has not introduced an Everlasting Strands launch date but, however you possibly can wishlist the sport on Steam. Within the meantime, take a look at our checklist of the very best fantasy video games on PC, in addition to our information to the very best Dragon’s Dogma 2 settings to max out your FPS when you observe slaying large monsters.
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