The Pathless is an indie open world that’s taking inspiration from some of the genre’s biggest names. Clearly there’s more than a hint of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild here, but the PlayStation 5 sandbox also shares similarities with Ghost of Tsushima – navigation, for example, feels much more organic than in other comparable games.
In fact, there’s no map or fast travel here – just an emphasis on exploration. One feature we really like is the traversal, which relies on you shooting floating orbs in order to charge a boost meter. Chain these together and you’ll be able to move at intense speeds – and once your eagle gets in on the action, you can even hurtle through the air as well.
Check out the new gameplay embedded above for a deeper explanation, and let us know your thoughts on the title in the comments section below. It’s targeting a release later this year, so could yet be a launch title for Sony’s next-gen system.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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Really think this looks great, a shame that every game that’s set in grassland suddenly is a rip off of BotW and Horizon now.
To me it looks like a new Journey-like game. Or a evolution of that game.
But wasn't this a mobile game for Apple devices or something like that? Why not PS4?
EDIT: Forget it, the game it's actually coming to PS4 too. Good.
Sadly, that overview kind of killed my excitement for it. I expected a more linear, guided experience like Journey and Abzu. As soon as I heard "open-world", my heart sank.
It looks great. I really dig the artstyle and gameplay I saw here. I'm keeping an eye on this one.
@nessisonett I love how it look and the gameplay looks like a lot of fun.
That is the only thing i wanna say too the developers.
I actually like the look of this. Mystical and with interesting art style.
Funny how people take to twitter to slate Sony for the State Of Play even though Sony made it clear its PS4 and VR focused.
There are millions of PS4 owners out there and also to see Hitman in VR is interesting. You can't accuse Sony of supporting their products this gen.
On a side note. Godfall seems better than I thought and after yesterday's showing I am more interested than I was before.
@RBMango you can't expect a game called "The Pathless" to have... Paths. The core theme and idea here requires open exploration.
The movement in this game does look llke it could be fun and aince it's focused on exploration means I'll probably enjoy doing it. That being said, I'm still a but disappointed that going on 3 generations now, open world games continue to not include a character that can actually fly, the hunter in this game somehow slides along the ground at incredible speeds after shooting those boxes and can fly for a time on that eagle, just seems weird to me the line they draw when it comes to realism.
That's one of the reasons we haven't seen a superman game (or anything similar) in 14 years, but plenty of games with horses over that time. I'd just like a break from the monotony of the way a lot of open world games have been recently.
Lucky Nintendo aren't litigious
This looks more like a mobile game let Alone a PS5 title.
This is the ps5 game were all waiting for. Looks awesome.
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