In 2020, former Dragon Age inventive director Mike Laidlaw joined with Ubisoft veterans Jeff Skalski, Frédéric St-Laurent B, and Thomas Giroux to launch a brand new studio known as Yellow Brick Video games. At this time, three and a half years later, they’ve lastly revealed what they’re getting as much as: A brand new action-adventure known as Everlasting Strands.
Everlasting Strands follows the story of Brynn, a younger Weaver—presumably magic, not basket—who’s on a quest to revive the cultural dwelling of her individuals by uncovering the mysteries of a once-powerful nation known as the Enclave. That is a course of that may after all contain throwing down with all kinds of enemies together with 25-foot-tall monstrosities known as Arks, which she will truly climb onto so as to ship a correct walloping.
The sport’s large hook is a promised use of superior physics-based programs that may allow gamers to make use of the setting and excessive climate to their benefit in fight: Chucking boulders at enemies with telekinetic powers, as an example, or utilizing bushes to dam incoming fireplace. As a Weaver, gamers may even have entry to {powerful} magic that may even work together with the sport world: Ice spells shall be simpler within the chilly, whereas fireplace will eat dry grass and bushes throughout heatwaves.
“Our hope with Everlasting Strands is to ship an journey that brings a way of enjoyable and pleasure to fantasy, whereas encouraging gamers to experiment with its programs,” Laidlaw stated. “It’s a really totally different sport to ones I’ve labored on prior to now, and it’s been a delight to typically reply the query ‘what if the participant does X?’ with ‘Cool!’ It’s additionally thrilling to have an opportunity to construct an all-new world that encourages and reacts to this type of play.”
Visually, Everlasting Strands has one thing of an Immortals Fenyx Rising vibe to it (though you possibly can in all probability insert any variety of stylized, brightly-colored fantasy video games into its place for those who desire) however the interactive programs sounds extra like Larian’s Divinity video games and Baldur’s Gate 3: Dump some oil, set it on fireplace to burn enemies, then use the smoke to cowl your advance. (And hope that disaster is not following too shut behind.) Everlasting Strands is clearly extra action-oriented than Larian’s party-based RPGs so it will be very fascinating to see how these programs work in the midst of a busy, real-time combat, however I might think about the potential for chaos could be very excessive.
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Everlasting Strands physics programs will not simply be helpful in fight: “Each floor is climbable,” Yellow Brick Video games stated, and “magical talents can create bridges, burn obstacles, or launch Brynn internationally.”
“The following-generation physics system encourages and rewards participant creativity in exploration as a lot as fight. Because the Enclave’s secrets and techniques unfold, return to base camp to seek the advice of with a wealthy solid of characters. Every are eager to find the mysteries of what occurred to this misplaced bastion of energy and information.”
Everlasting Strands is about to return out in 2025, and shall be out there for PC on Steam. Take a look at some screens beneath.
