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Eternal Strands review - a game of real pluck

Our review if Eternal Strands, an action RPG with magical powers that feel genuinely dangerous, married to level design that offers scale and prettiness.

This love shows not only in endless dialogue choices and vast amounts of codex entries that have been scattered across the land and must be reclaimed and stitched back together, but also in the little details and embellishments that a story only gets if the people writing it have thought way too much about things. Watch on YouTube I'm starting with the story because Eternal Strands is the debut action RPG from Yellow Brick Games, whose founders include Mike Laidlaw of BioWare and Dragon Age. If you asked me what this game is, I'd say it's a mixture of Fable's bucolic loveliness and loose approach to action RPGing, and something like Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy in terms of being a combustible and hilarious sandbox.

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