Biff! Destroy! Spear to the groin! Asteroid in the jaw! This must be the new gameplay video for Tides Of Annihilation, the Arthurian fantasy action game from Eclipse Glow Games, which also wants to steal Star Blade, Final Fantasy XVI or BayonettaLunch – do me a favor and pick one because I can't decide. I can't stop comparing this game to things. I think there's something wrong with me. Help.
All this arrogant Englishness is a bit Bayonetta (without the humor), but the ally summoning mechanics remind me more of FF16, and the main character Gwendolyn belongs to the same school of impossibly pure beauty as Stellar Blade's Eve. She may be a little greyer than Eve, perhaps because she keeps letting witches hit her in the face with little planets.
The video shows us a boss fight against one of the witches, Tyronie. It looks unedited, so we can get a sense of the ebb and flow of the game's most interesting developments. The boss alternates between human-scale punches, Valkyrie bombardments from the other side of energy barriers, and a tricky little moment where she walks through the mirrored surface of a frozen lake and starts hitting you from inside the reflection. Luckily, mid-fight, Gwendolyn teams up with the Knight of the Round Table, Lamorak, whose twisted spear proves super-effective against the witch.
A flurry of background trifles from announcement post: Eclipse Glow is based in China and is one of the top 100 developers and has people who previously worked on Yakuza. For the honorAssassin's Creed, Persona and Prince of Persia.
Tides Of Annihilation will last 30 hours and will feature around 30 bosses. Some enemies are large enough to represent levels, like Fumito Ueda. Yes it is is Jennifer English from Baldur's Gate 3 fame, voicing Gwendolyn. The game takes place in post-apocalyptic London and mythical Avalon. incorrectly identified bus routes.
