Eternal Strands

fantastic gameplay. movement, sword stuff, magic stuff and boss fights - all very good. lore is interesting as well.

Despite some shortcomings, this is a really good game. The graphics are beautiful, the magic casting is amazing, and the climbing and terrain traversal is unique for a game like this. Combat is also quite fun. The game also tries many new/unique things for a game like this, which are really nice to see. Final rating: 9/10 Thank you Yellow Brick Games. I hope your next game (if you're making one) does great too.

Ho finito Eternal Strands dopo circa 22-23 ore e, alla fine dei titoli di coda, la sensazione che mi è rimasta è stata abbastanza precisa. Sono contento di averlo giocato. Ma sono ancora più curioso di vedere cosa farà lo studio dopo. Perché Eternal Strands è uno di quei giochi nei quali riesci a vedere chiaramente il potenziale. E allo stesso tempo riesci a vedere chiaramente i limiti. È un gioco che parte molto bene, che ha un combattimento piacevole, delle idee interessanti e una componente magica che riesce a distinguersi. Ma andando avanti mostra una varietà insufficiente. Tre armi sono troppo poche. L'arco è praticamente inutile. Lo spadone è troppo forte Le magie sono interessanti ma non abbastanza numerose. E il gameplay, che dovrebbe essere il cuore dell'esperienza, finisce per diventare ripetitivo prima che la campagna sia effettivamente terminata. La storia è piacevole, i personaggi sono carini e il comparto estetico è curato, anche se personalmente avrei preferito uno stile meno cartoonesco. E poi, purtroppo, nel mio caso ci si è messa anche quella maledetta traduzione italiana amatoriale a complicare ulteriormente le cose. Però nonostante tutto questo, io non riesco a bocciare Eternal Strands. Perché bisogna anche ricordarsi una cosa: questo è il primo gioco di Yellow Brick Games. E per essere il primo gioco di uno studio nuovo, fondato da veterani dell'industria, secondo me è un risultato più che rispettabile. Non hanno creato il nuovo Monster Hunter. Non hanno creato il nuovo Dragon's Dogma. Non hanno creato un capolavoro. Hanno creato un gioco interessante, con delle buone idee, qualche intuizione molto intelligente e parecchi margini di miglioramento. E a me, sinceramente, basta per essere curioso. Perché se questi ragazzi prendono tutto quello che hanno imparato con Eternal Strands… e lo mettono dentro un eventuale seguito… con più armi, più magie, più varietà, un combat system più profondo e magari un'estetica un po' meno cartoonesca… allora sì che potremmo avere qualcosa di veramente interessante. Per adesso, però, Eternal Strands rimane quello che secondo me è giusto che sia: un buon primo passo. E niente di più. GRAFICA: 79 SONORO:79 GIOCABILITA':77 LONGEVITA':79 TRAMA:73 ATMOSFERA:74 +Interessante come mondo di gioco e background +Buon loop +Magia nel combattimento interessante -Ripetitività che sopraggiunge presto -Sbilanciato -La traduzione italiana che si trova su Nexus Mods mi ha rovinato l’esperienza narrativa VOTO FINALE: 77/100

A mixed of Monster Hunter, Breath of the Wild, and Shadow of he Colosseus. I'll start by saying the beginning of the story was so boring to me that I just skipped all dialogue. The story is told in very few cutscenes, about 4 2D animations scene, and a lot of VN style dialogue. There are dialogue choices, but they're just flavor and don't do anything. The beginning is kind of boring and give you your main magic you'll be using a lot throughout the whole game, a telekinetic like ability. There is a lot of backtracking and you don't get any traversal ability until way later in the game. The closest you have to a traversal ability is a two-hand weapon that is basically a charged super jump that can also use in midair. Otherwise, you'll mostly be sprint jumping a lot. There is momentum in the game but it can be wonky a lot of times can you get flinged randomly. The game isn't open world but multiple maps similar to MH. The other main mechanic of the game is its stamina system you use to attack and climb. Even though there is a stamina system, there is NO WAY to permanently increase it or your HP. The combat in the game is pretty basic and suffers from having lack of weapons. You have 3 types of weapons, a shield/sword, bow/arrow, and a two hand. You can use all three at the same time. But each weapon can have either kinetic, fire, or ice infusion/skill. You're able to climb/mount nearly, mainly the environment, buildings, and giant bosses. The game is either go point A to point B collecting items or talking to NPC for the quests and for the upgrades it is like an extraction and monster hunting. You go in a map, kill and collect materials, and you get out. The materials have rarity and the best rarity is always boss drops. Luckily there is no RNG. It is very grindy to upgrade your gears to max. But luckily that's where the game's smithing/crafting system comes it. This game respects its player's time and resources. The best thing about the game is the reforge (and its dismantle) system. If you want to upgrade or downgrade (or break apart) any equipment, the materials currently used you get refunded ALL of it. This system makes customization and building way more accessible. However, the game is very simple that all the passive abilities on the armor are really bland. The armors' stats are armor and heat/cold resist. Which in my experience doesn't matter because bosses will always either deal 99% of your HP and enemies/temperature damage all feels fixed. Only the weapon damage stats seems to matter the most. Most of the boss fights will mostly consist of you climbing the boss and exposing/attacking its weakspots until it die. Alternatively you can harvest the bosses to upgrade specific magic tied to that boss. Luckily you only need to harvest most of the bosses 3 times and 2 of them 2 times. That's because your magic can be upgraded max level 3. There is one boss have the most stupid and unfair hurtbox in the game. All the flying enemies are the most annoying due to you're unable to reach them and they spend so much time in the air until you break their wings or get a specific ability later. The potions in this game is also very bland. You have a limited amount of HP potion but can find more in the map and 2 other potions is just immunity to fire/ice for a limited time. Even though there is a day/night system, I don't notice it makes much of a difference. The only difference is the weather system which is just the area is either burning, freezing, or poison mist everywhere. Each areas, even the HUD areas, have collectible lore codex pages. There is really nothing more than fire, ice, or kinetic element in this game. After the main story, there aren't any postgame contents to do beside grinding for boss materials to use to strength your main loadout and achievement hunting. There isn't a NG+ to make the minmax worth anything. Over all, 7.5/10. Highly recommend buying on sale.

Hadn't heard of this game before a chance recommendation and the Steam sale made me pick it up, and I can't believe I almost missed out on playing this! I love single player RPGs like Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate, etc., and initially I thought the roleplaying aspect would be too surface-level to scratch that itch, especially with a preset PC. But Brynn is delightful, her voice is lovely, and there's enough choice in how you play her to make her feel like yours. The other characters are great too - quality voice acting and well-rounded enough to be interesting and endearing. It feels like my choices, subtle as they are, are having a real impact without it spoon feeding me 'X will remember that' notifications. It makes my influence on the story feel organic and effortless. I'm maybe 40% of the way through the story and it's intriguing, I can't wait to find out what happens next. The worldbuilding is also pitched very well - it feels like a real, well-established world without overloading you with lore. The gameplay really took me by surprise. It's brilliantly thought-out; lots of basic videogame concepts like level limits and extra lives are explained by the game world in clever, interesting way. Exploration is fun, the different times of day and weather conditions bring entirely new life to the same areas, and the lack of a minimap means I'm focused on the level design and not just chasing a little icon. The answer to 'can I X that?' always seems to be 'yes!' Climb it, throw it, blow it up, everything's on the table, and it's super fun. Combat and the magic system is also fab, it feels weighty and rewarding just complex enough to allow for lots of creativity whilst still being relatively simple to pick up. The only snag is a few crashes, but I've only had maybe four in 20ish hours of playing, and the autosave system is generous enough that this hasn't been a big hassle. It plays very well on my almost 10-year-old PC in general and loads fast. Overall this is a fabulous first game from this studio and deserves much more hype!

So fun - slow at first but it gets better after the intro period.

I think of this game with quite fond memories. I really enjoyed it. There is an interesting world, great lore, decent characters, good game play, fantastic art style, and a interesting story. There is some millennial writing at time with how the characters interact, but over all, I really enjoyed it!

рыганина с пропагандой толерантности, сюжет не цепанул от слова совсем, лук с бесконечными стрелами, щит и меч, когда ты будешь сражаться в будущем онли комбо магией, кроме прикольного диномеша в игре больше встретить нечего 1/10