Publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer Tiny Roar announced their new game today: XEL. It is described as a game inspired by the Zelda series where you will need to solve puzzles, explore dungeons and battle robots and wildlife as you help the amnesiac protagonist explore and unravel the mysteries of land she finds herself in. An announcement trailer for XEL was released today giving us a look at some early alpha footage:

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XEL follows an amnesiac protagonist named Reid, who finds herself shipwrecked on an enigmatic world with no memory of her previous life. Players will join Reid as she sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery behind this bizarre land filled with secrets, puzzles, and a not-so-stable sense of time. Explore a beautiful overworld dotted with challenging dungeons in a classic, top-down, 3D action-adventure format in a rich, vivid palette. During her quest Reid will meet charming, enduring characters, engage in thrilling combat, and of course, find and upgrade a whole bevy of nifty weapons, items, gadgets, and moves — some of which may help her jump through space and time.

Key Features of XEL include:

• Sci-fi Dungeon Diving: The world of XEL features a vast, extensive overworld and challenging, Zelda-like dungeons to explore
• A Deep Combat System: Become proficient at using a variety of attacks and combos, while dodging, and parrying to tackle and take out foes
• Gadgets & Guns: Master and upgrade your weapons, shield, and gadgets to smash your foes and open up new areas to explore
• Deep Lore and a Deeper Mystery: What exactly happened to this world, and who is responsible? Piece together a captivating story and dive into the legends behind the cryptic history XEL
• Spacetime? Not a Problem: Unlock special abilities that allow Reid to bend the rules of space and time, grantingher access to previously impassable areas and opening up new ways to defeat difficult enemies

XEL is expected to launch in Q2 2022 on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.

SOURCE: GBAtemp Inbox

 

[samcambolt270]

Well i was extrapolating a bit from what he said here https://gbatemp.net/threads/zelda-i...-pc-and-consoles-in-2022.593166/#post-9561880 at the end.

at best, that statement was a complete aside from his argument, which is why he said "anyway" before it.

 

[Crazystato]

Xelda

 

[anhminh]

Everyone try to recreate the lighting in the bottle but the best they could make is a single LED.

 

[ertaboy356b]

There are so much "Zelda inspired" games now from Genshin to Fenyx to this. I know :"Open World" games exists before BOTW but BOTW is unique with its realistic physics.

 

[MagnesG]

Yup, so steam writes up an article (my bad) they mention it been a zelda inspired game, not the dev, their website which is almost word for word identical to what steam have taken, but thrown reference to zelda, ok so gbatemp didnt add it, the editor who posted the news on steam did.

but on their official site, as said, mentions nothing about been inspired by zelda.

i dont get why whenever someone releases a game that may look similar to zelda, its inspired as if nintendo was the first to do it.

anyway, this game looks decent and might give it a try.

Flip flopper.

 

[Bladexdsl]

it's bound to be better than that overrated BOTW i mean it has dungeons!

 

[Xzi]

Early alpha footage indeed...looks boring and quite paint-by-numbers at the moment. Zelda-likes made in Unity also seem to be a dime a dozen these days, though that's not necessarily a bad thing for those that manage to put their own spin on the formula. I quite enjoyed Death's Door.

Oh, and yikes to the guy arguing vehemently that a game with a hookshot and half of the same name isn't inspired by Zelda, lol.

 

[chrisrlink]

just be glad we don't have the south korean copyright system adopted world wide otherwise these "inspired/spiritual sucessor" games could be and probably would be shut down,Bluehole tried to sue Epic in south Korean court and stop sales/distribution of fortnite based solely on ideas and mechanics being similar

 

[grcd]

Yup, so steam writes up an article (my bad) they mention it been a zelda inspired game, not the dev, their website which is almost word for word identical to what steam have taken, but thrown reference to zelda, ok so gbatemp didnt add it, the editor who posted the news on steam did.

but on their official site, as said, mentions nothing about been inspired by zelda.

i dont get why whenever someone releases a game that may look similar to zelda, its inspired as if nintendo was the first to do it.

anyway, this game looks decent and might give it a try.

Or.. you can just admit that you are wrong in this case, and show some maturity. No one forced you into this mistake... You were wrong from the outset and bitter about something with no reason to be so. You are better than this. Admit your mistake and let's all move on.