According to the team, the game has been heavily influenced by the cold, rolling green hills of Iceland. Myrkur Games is headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the studio has used the country in creating the world of Echoes of the End. “For us, what we really want to explore is a marriage of a cinematic experience and the narrative, choice-driven storytelling of RPGs,” Guðrúnarson said. However, she was “cast away from the life she’s always known.” Now, possibly exiled, Ryn sets out to find herself, meeting people and deciding her own fate. The narrative director of Myrkur, Magnús Friðrik Guðrúnarson, said Ryn lived her life as a warrior. More information came out today during the Koch Primetime stream. There will also be combat and puzzles to solve.

As a narrative game, you control Ryn and interact with other characters. Along her left arm are dark, vein-like marks that glow purple, likely when she’s using her powers. We got a look at Ryn in some early screenshots, showing her in dark armor and wielding a curved sword. She can both manipulate matter, or destroy it entirely. A battle-hardened fighter, Ryn also boasts a rare power. However, we do have some tidbits to share.Įchoes of the End (name pending) stars Ryn, a fighter traveling through a fantasy world.

Described as a single-player, narrative-driven RPG, Echoes of the End is pretty damn early in its development. The game is coming under Koch’s new publishing label Prime Matter. If you don’t have that kind of a preference and just want an intense read, then I would absolutely recommend picking this up as it is a really engaging story.Koch Media and developer Myrkur Games have revealed Project Echoes of the End. I wasn’t a fan of how dark and heavy this was, because I really prefer to have a brighter edge to what I read, something that doesn’t make me feel like there isn’t much hope for any kind of good in humanity. I honestly almost felt more towards the bad guy and I really didn’t like that either.

The one character I expected to have the utmost sympathy for, the mother, I had the absolute least. I struggled with character connections because of it. Yes, it brought me to tears a time or two, but it did so because of how tragic the whole thing is. There really isn’t much of anything with any kind of uplifting feel to it. That lack makes this an unrelentingly heavy read. It is an unrealistic expectation to believe they all would have handled it well, but it is also unrealistic to believe they all went in the extreme other direction but that is how they felt to me. I struggled with the fact that not a single character was presented as dealing with this trauma in more positive and healthy ways. Everyone deals with and reacts to traumatic events in different ways, but it felt like all of the characters in the book reacted in some of the most negative ways possible. This is the kind of story that gives you a glimpse into this small, ugly slice of life in the form of a massively traumatic event and how that kind of trauma can spider out, changing all the people it touches. While this packs an emotional wallop, it does so heavily and not always in a way I enjoyed. I am so torn on rating this one! It was really well written and it is absolutely going to grab your emotions and drag them along for the ride. Yesterday echoes throughout each character’s life as they decide how, and if, they will break the chains of the past. A journey through time reveals the common thread stitching their heartbreak together. Consumed by the tragic fate of their friend, family member and neighbor, their lives and futures are forever altered.įor over eighteen years, no one knows the connection between Ruby Dunkin and Chelsea Wyatt. Crimes like this are unheard of in their quiet, midwestern town. Her parents are devastated, only knowing this kind of tragedy from the news. Consumed by hatred and self-loathing Billy becomes the thing he hates the most-his father.Ĭhelsea Wyatt, a senior in high school, goes missing after work one night, never to return. Their volatile situation ends in tragedy when Ruby’s eldest son, Billy is torn away from everything he loves. Her best efforts aren’t enough to shield her two children from an abusive father whose cruelty knows no bounds. Blurb: Two families, forever linked by tragedy.

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