Eternal Strands is a brand new motion/journey title from Yellow Brick Video games, and it seems to channel the big-boss-climbing power of Shadow of the Colossus in its reveal trailer.
As debuted by IGN, who can have extra on the title within the weeks to come back as a part of its April cowl story, Eternal Strands comes from developer Yellow Brick Video games. The crew is alleged to be composed of varied AAA sport growth veterans who beforehand labored at locations like Ubisoft and Bioware, together with longtime Dragon Age inventive director Mike Laidlaw.
In Eternal Strands, gamers will tackle the position of Brynn, a magic utilizing Weaver and one of many final of their variety after a magical cataclysm practically destroyed their world. Alongside a gaggle of different Weavers, Brynn embarks on a quest that can pit them towards foes each large and small and which would require mastering the varied spells at their disposal.
The big, climbable boss encounters positively look to be the star of the present, because the trailer reveals Brynn climbing atop large enemies and stabbing their weakpoints with a sword, paying homage to the PlayStation 2 traditional (which was later remade for PS4) Shadow of the Colossus. The trailer moreover highlights the methods the sport’s spells can be utilized to work together with each enemies and the atmosphere in fascinating methods, with one boss proven being frozen in ice or Brynn taking aside items of the atmosphere and throwing it at enemies with magic.
In contrast to Shadow of the Colossus, which famously solely options colossal bosses to defeat in its in any other case empty world, Eternal Strands can even embody smaller, human-sized foes for gamers to battle towards. The trailer reveals Brynn hacking at enemies with sword and defend whereas additionally using telekinesis magic to throw enemies at each other. In keeping with IGN, the sport channels physics-puzzles seen in video games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, an instance of which is proven within the trailer when Brynn makes use of their powers to create an ice bridge with a purpose to traverse a crevasse.
Eternal Strands is slated to reach in 2025 and extra details about the sport’s worlds, characters, and its bosses might be shared within the days and weeks forward on IGN. The sport might be coming to Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, and may be wishlisted now.