Everlasting Strands, the fantasy action-RPG from former Dragon Age artistic director Mike Laidlaw’s Yellow Brick Video games studio, has a launch date – it is coming to Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and Sport Move on twenty eighth January subsequent 12 months.
Everlasting Strands follows the adventures of Brynn – a member of a dwindling group of magic customers referred to as the Weavers – who units out throughout a fantasy kingdom ravaged by a cataclysmic magical occasion to uncover its mysteries and get better her individuals’s cultural house.
In gameplay phrases, all this takes the type of an action-RPG impressed by the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Shadow of the Colossus, with a little bit of Monster Hunter thrown in. The latter two video games will be seen within the bosses roaming Everlasting Strands’ “open zone” world – 25-meter-high climbable creatures referred to as the Arks – and the way in which defeating them offers sources used to create new weapons and armour again at a base camp.
As for the Zelda influences, they arrive within the interaction between Brynn’s magical talents and the atmosphere. Powers are constructed round flame, ice, and telekinetic pressure, all of which will be additional enhanced at the side of the shifting temperatures brought on by the world’s unstable local weather. “Warmth spreads, chilly chills, and real-time destruction permits for unprecedented reactivity in fight,” explains the blurb over on Steam. “Create [ice] bridges, burn boundaries, or launch Brynn the world over. The subsequent-generation physics system encourages and rewards participant creativity in exploration as a lot as fight.” Oh, and each floor is climbable too.
When Everlasting Strands arrives on twenty eighth January subsequent 12 months, it’s going to be obtainable for Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC through Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer. It is also confirmed to be a day one Sport Move launch for Final and PC Sport Move subscribers. Moreover, as per an FAQ on Steam, free post-launch content material is deliberate, and a demo’s additionally on the way in which. Yellow Brick Video games says extra particulars on the latter can be shared at a “later date”.
