Despite the great success of the recent Zelda games, there are comparatively few games trying something similar. A new studio of veteran developers has now announced a new game for the PS5 that looks interesting for Zelda fans.
The studio Yellow Brick Games was founded in 2020 by Mike Laidlaw, Jeff Skalski, Frédéric St-Laurent B., and Thomas Giroux. Laidlaw worked on Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect. The other three are Ubisoft veterans.
The studio has now announced its first game. Eternal Strands is set to be a new action-adventure. You play as a sorceress who faces off against giant foes. She uses the environment and her magic for this. You can see the first trailer for the game here:
Experimenting like in Zelda
The graphics of the game are colorful and reminiscent of a comic style, similar to what was used in Immortals Fenix Rising by Ubisoft. The environment and the large enemy shown also remind of Ubisoft’s Zelda clone.
Particularly interesting in the trailer are the gameplay experiments. In the trailer, you can see how you can hurl stones and smaller enemies from the environment at the opponent using magic. With ice spells, you can create a bridge, or use a kind of gravity to jump on giant enemies.
According to PCGamer, the various elemental spells are also influenced by external conditions. For instance, fire is more effective in hot environments. The many spells are meant to inspire the players’ creativity and function like in a physics sandbox.
This approach also reminds one of the last two Zelda games, which provided players with tools that could be used creatively. In Zelda, this also led to many phallic constructions.
In the trailer’s description, Shadow of the Colossus and Monster Hunter are also mentioned as inspirations. Looking at the fight against the titan, the comparison is immediately apparent.
The game is set to be released in 2025 on Xbox Series consoles, PS5, and PC. For fans of Tears of the Kingdom, this game could be interesting. Those who want to fight large monsters can look forward to a sequel to a successful co-op hit in 2025: Capcom is apparently bringing something like Monster Hunter World 2: With open world, everything sounds fantastic
