I love a good David versus Goliath battle. Throw a giant monster at me in Dark Souls or Shadow of the Colossus and then demand I take it down with little more than a toothpick and a deathwish and I'm in gaming heaven. I'd readily believe both games were well represented on Eternal Strands' inspo board. After all, no triumph feels sweeter than one where you're the underdog with all the odds stacked against you.
You play as Brynn, an enthusiastic young Weaver (basically, a spellcaster). Unfortunately, Brynn lives in one of those surprisingly common fantasy universes where everyone hates magic users. There's been a major magical calamity called the Surge – the first of many proper nouns in the plot – that's basically gotten every magic user cancelled. After a brief prologue, Brynn and a caravan of equally chipper companions end up inside the area where the Surge kicked off. Time to start researching what happened by seeking out monsters to kill, resources to plunder, lore to skim through, etc. There's a world to explore and big enemies to fell, Yellow Brick Games taking more than a few notes from Monster Hunter World and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – though that's no bad thing.
