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Hazelight Studios’ upcoming journey Cut up Fiction does greater than add a genre-blending twist to the cooperative motion of It Takes Two. A newly launched trailer reveals that the follow-up to Josef Fares’ wildly profitable third-person platformer is not a strictly linear affair. In keeping with Fares, who supplies the trailer’s voiceover, gamers will be capable of embark upon “side-stories” which are “fully completely different from the primary journey” as they discover the sport’s twin sci-fi and fantasy worlds.
“Facet tales are present in the primary ranges and seem like a portal,” Fares explains. “When you enter, you find yourself in a brand new world.” The trailer then supplies a number of examples of side-adventures gamers may encounter. Beginning with a short glimpse of an Arabian Nights-inspired desert strewn with golden palaces, the trailer cuts to protagonists Mio and Zoe floating round a wrecked space-station. Then it reveals one other desert set-piece the place the 2 experience a creature known as a “sandfish”, earlier than wrapping up the phase with the 2 waterskiing throughout a crystalline ocean as they chase a futuristic hovertrain.
Though we solely see snapshots of those facet tales, they appear to have a 3D Mario high quality to them, designed to take a selected idea and iterate upon it quickly, earlier than shifting onto the following concept. This is not the one space the place Cut up Fiction apparently borrows from the more moderen adventures of Nintendo’s plumber both, with Zoe’s fantasy worlds enabling the pair to shapeshift into completely different creatures. These embody a fairy, an enormous burly ape, and an aquatic lizard factor that you do not get a correct have a look at. There’s some perspective shifting occurring too, with a number of clips of the sport taking part in from a 2D, side-scrolling standpoint.
It is a flashy displaying for Hazelight’s newest, and emphasising its selection as a platformer is a brilliant transfer after everybody fell in love with the equally Mario-inspired Astro Bot for a similar purpose final yr. Whether or not it will be as beloved or profitable as It Takes Two stays to be seen, although every part they’ve proven up to now suggests it will be nearer in high quality to It Takes Two than the studio’s earlier experiment in cooperative gaming, A Means Out.
EA will little doubt be hoping for a smash hit from Hazelight, given different occasions beneath the company’s umbrella. The writer not too long ago revised its monetary outlook down following the underperformance of EA Sports activities FC 25 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Concerning the latter, EA has now ceased supporting The Veilguard with updates, and appears to have laid off a lot of its workforce beneath the guise of restructuring for a single Mass Impact mission.
