Friday - May 03, 2024
Sky of Tides - Preview @ RPS
Rock Paper Shotgun checked out the narrative RPG Sky Of Tides:
Sky Of Tides is the anti-Disco Elysium in which balance is queen
In this lush sci-fantasy RPG adventure, min-maxing is a sin
Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is a legendary drawing of a nude with his arms and legs reaching towards the rim and corners of a circle and square. It's often invoked as an archetype for the humanist worldview of Man the Measure and Centre of all Things, holding a perfectly proportioned universe in shape. Rin D'Lorah, the heroine of new narrative RPG Sky Of Tides, is a bit like the Vitruvian Man, and the result is a game I find at once bewitching and powerfully offputting in its refusal to satisfy the conventions of the genre.
Created by Ontario-based Lofty Sky Entertainment, the game takes place in the sci-fantasy realm of Numen, which has been shattered into nine planetoids floating within the titular sky of tides, and is contested by two groups: the Syndicate, who run a monopoly on ancient magical tech, and the Sovereign, a rebel faction dedicated to the lost ways enshrined in the banned Numen Tomes. Rin is called upon to mend this ruptured civilisation while searching for her missing father. You'll do this not just by following the plot to its conclusion or levelling up, but by keeping Rin balanced as a character. For Rin, you see, has a peculiar gift of currently unexplained provenance: she's a mirror for everything else. Or perhaps, everything else is a mirror for Rin.
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Information about
Sky of TidesDeveloper: Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: RPG
Combat: Unknown
Play-time: Unknown
Voice-acting: Unknown
Regions & platforms
Unknown
· Homepage
· Platform: PC
· To be announced
· Publisher: ESDigital Games