Right now, Blood and Brine, the free enlargement for Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter, arrives on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. This new post-game journey sends Arlo away from the frozen North to Hardshell Brook, a coastal area filled with 11 quests, 10 new bosses, 9 armour units, new music, and a fishing system with 32 aquatic creatures to find. You’ll want to complete the primary marketing campaign earlier than you’ll be able to set sail.
Forged off for Hardshell Brook
After every part Arlo has survived throughout the Ratdom, his subsequent downside sounds nearly stress-free: assist two shipwrecked sailors construct an aquarium. Jaimie and Sam have washed ashore after dropping their vessel, and their plan is to fill a brand new attraction with uncommon sea life, attract guests, and earn sufficient to restore their ship.
Meaning any individual has to do the fishing.
Hardshell Brook provides Arlo a really totally different panorama to discover, with sunlit docks, open water and loads of unfamiliar faces. You’ll solid your line in numerous fishing spots and search out 32 creatures for the aquarium, step by step turning an empty assortment into one thing a lot stranger. Fishing provides the journey a quieter rhythm between battles, however we haven’t forgotten what sort of world that is. Some issues below the floor are a lot happier making an attempt to eat Arlo than being displayed behind glass.
And because the aquarium grows, so do the questions round Jaimie and Sam. Their story about what occurred at sea won’t be fairly so simple as it first seems.
A rougher type of seaside break
Hardshell Brook could look hotter than the snow-covered Wastes, however it’s undoubtedly not safer. Throughout the enlargement’s 11 quests, Arlo will encounter new enemies on land and beneath the waves, together with 10 boss fights designed round contemporary assault patterns and hazards.
We additionally needed to make the coast really feel totally different in fight, so Blood and Brine introduces ship area battles that take fights out onto the water. One second you is perhaps exploring the harbour or checking a fishing spot; the subsequent, you’re on deck coping with one thing monumental that has determined your boat appears to be like like lunch.
There are 9 new armour units to gather as nicely, providing you with extra choices to arrange for these encounters and, simply as importantly, extra methods to make Arlo look suitably battle-worn for a visit to the seaside.
Indie heroes enter the Ratdom
One in every of our favorite components of constructing Blood and Brine has been working with different impartial studios. We’ve at all times cherished seeing how totally different indie groups construct memorable characters and worlds, so we needed to carry just a few of these acquainted designs into our hand-drawn medieval setting.
The enlargement contains crossover armour impressed by Blasphemous, Cult of the Lamb, Dave the Diver, Demise’s Door, Moonlighter, and Past Galaxyland. Fairly than merely dropping these costumes into the sport, our artists redrew and tailored every set so it feels at house on Arlo and contained in the Ratdom. Seeing recognisable heroes reinterpreted as armour for a really decided rat has been loads of enjoyable, and we’re massively grateful to each workforce who allow us to play with their designs.
A thanks to everybody who joined Arlo’s journey
Blood and Brine began as one other journey for Arlo, but it surely grew right into a a lot larger addition than we first anticipated: a brand new area, new quests and managers, new music, a brand new fishing mechanic, and a small celebration of the indie video games we admire.
Greater than something, it’s our method of claiming thanks to everybody who has supported Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter. We hope returning gamers get pleasure from discovering what’s ready alongside the shores of Hardshell Brook, and that anybody who has not but completed Arlo’s authentic marketing campaign has another reason to sharpen their blade.
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter – Blood and Brine is offered immediately as a free enlargement on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Full the primary marketing campaign, prepared your fishing rod, and put together to set sail. The waters of the Ratdom are something however peaceable.
To rejoice the launch, Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter is 60% off on PS5 and PS4 from August 12–26 as a part of PlayStation’s Prepared, Set, Play promotion.