Eternal Strands Reviews
Eternal Strands delivers a slick, action-packed fantasy adventure with tonnes of heart and a whole lot of elemental fury to play with. Despite a little tedium creeping into its late-game grinding missions, it manages to weave an unbelievable number of mechanics into a cohesive gameplay loop that feels very satisfying. On top of that, its vibrant and imaginative world is gorgeously realised and full of delicious lore for fantasy nerds to devour. An incredibly strong first offering from new indie studio Yellow Brick Games.
Eternal Strands shines in its innovation and creativity, but it stumbles in execution at times. For fans of action RPGs who value experimentation and unique gameplay systems, this is a journey worth taking—even if it’s not without its rough patches. Eternal Strands is a strong First Effort from Yellow Brick Games.
Yellow Brick Games' first monster-hunting effort doesn't stand as tall as the industry titans it so closely emulates, but still compares to a formidable sub-boss all the same.
Eternal Strands is a big game with some big guts. It's awesome that this small team can make a game that stands tall on its own against other big names from the industry. Eternal Strands is entertaining, clever, and spontaneous. The game's different mechanics fold nicely into each other and produce a grounded gameplay loop that is super addicting. Exploring the extensive and differing lands never gets tiring and the voice acting that guides you are magnificent. Climbing is clumsy, controlling your character is incongruous, and multiple art design choices reads wrong, but everything woven together fabricates a game that is meticulous and endearing.
Eternal Strands manages to be more than a checklist of influences that market research would appreciate. This is an outrageous action adventure game that leans hard on unbelievable physics to suck the player into its setting. It can be a little hard but every problem can be solved with unconventional thinking.
If we were to blend Shadow of the Colossus, Asassin's Creed and Zelda games in one place, I think something like this would come out. The game is not bad, it entertains, but it gets very repetitive and boring over time.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Eternal Strands offers glimpses of promise with its stunning boss fights and intriguing gameplay mechanics. However, its repetitive structure and lack of depth make for a shallow experience. The game also falls short in storytelling and character development, leaving little to keep players engaged and making it difficult to recommend.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Eternal Strands is full of interesting and amazing ideas that unfortunately, some of them weren't implemented and executed properly. That being said, it's still an entertaining experience nonetheless.
Review in Persian | Read full review
A solid magical action adventure on PS5
Eternal Strands is a solid debut title from Yellow Brick Games. Despite some limitations, its combat system and dynamic interaction with the environment offer a variety of tactical possibilities to face epic enemies and expand the magic arsenal to keep confronting the Enclave's threats.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Eternal Strands is an interesting title that shows how some familiar ideas can be used in a creative way. A good combination of familiar concepts.... although at some points the developers should have gone wild.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Eternal Strands is an amazing adventure that excels in combat and exploration. Finding unique sights, battling fearsome bosses, and crafting incredible gear makes it extremely fun to play. Highly recommended.
To conclude, Eternal Strands is a good game. It’s not as massive nor flashy as Breath of the Wild but its unique story made it stand out. Albeit the glitches and bizarre in-game physics, every video gamer (me included) knows that we should be the ones who need to adjust to the game, not the game itself. If you’re into fast-paced, fantasy action-adventure/RPG, I highly recommend Eternal Strands. The story, gameplay, and exploration will keep you invested in this game for hours.
Eternal Strands is a delicious mix of genres that, despite some conceptual errors, manages to give us a truly memorable gameplay experience. With three ingredients, such as fire, ice and gravity, we will be able to achieve great things.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Although not without its shortcomings and flaws, Eternal Strands proved to be a long-lived and solid action-adventure, both in exploration and in the combat system.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Yellow Brick Games has crafted an engaging game that delivers on action, excels at adventure, and the role you get to play as a budding leader is dynamic and mature, in a pragmatically compassionate way.
Not just magic and swords: in Eternal Strands, the environment itself reacts to your actions, opening up new combat possibilities.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Eternal Strands possesses quite a nice depth and a compelling combination of features to bring you some enjoyable combat. However, the story isn’t something I would speak much of often when discussing the game. Despite that, this game is a great start for Yellow Brick Games and displays the potential the developer has for future projects.
Eternal Strands marks a welcome return to the video game scene for Mike Laidlaw. An action RPG that draws from the best game design lessons of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Shadow of the Colossus to create a multi-layered interactive adventure that is as galvanizing in its premise as it is satisfying in its execution. Unfortunately, this is not a flawless project, starting with an overly derivative art direction through repetitive quest design and a combat system that is acerbic in its fundamentals. In any case, it is impossible not to greet with applause the ambitious project of Yellow Brick Games, which has the incontrovertible and indisputable merit of wanting to dare something more than the majority of productions in the same genre. And this is no small feat, far from it.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Eternal Strands is a very ambitious title that tries to follow in the footsteps of the greats of the industry, while maintaining its personal brand. At the gameplay level, it offers a combat system that shines more for the use and free combination of magics than for the melee confrontations, which feel decaffeinated.
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