Empyreal Official Gameplay Intro Dev Diary Video

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Join the development team at Silent Games for a behind-the-scenes look at Empyreal in this latest video for the upcoming sci-fi action RPG. The team discusses the setting and story of Empyreal, as well as character customization and combat.

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00:00PEGI 16

00:21Imperial is a sci-fi fantasy action RPG

00:24I call it sci-fi fantasy because the setting is sci-fi

00:27but I think the mood and feel is more fantasy

00:29If you are a mercenary and you've come to this unexplored planet

00:32there is this huge monolith in the center

00:35and there's been an expedition that's already tried to figure out what's going on

00:38but they have so far not got very far with it

00:41They've been trying to explore this monolith

00:43that's been built by a lost ancient civilization

00:46and it becomes clear that this civilization

00:48has made discoveries that are unknown to the modern world

00:51Players can choose a weapon at the start of the game

00:53but they're not locked into that

00:55they can change once they pick up a new weapon

00:57You can experiment with different play styles

00:59You can also customize your character

01:01so you can make it however you want

01:02There's lots of customization options

01:04and I think there's a lot of variety there for players to explore

01:09And then beyond just the visual customization

01:11of your actual physical appearance

01:14you can customize it with armor sets

01:16and we have dozens of different visual assets for those as well

01:19and then you can customize it with your play style

01:21We have, I think, about 50 different abilities

01:23hundreds of stats in the game

01:25I would say, in summary, it's a true RPG

01:27It's meant to be explored to that level of depth

01:35The combat revolves around three different weapon archetypes

01:38So we have a glaive, cannon, mace and shield

01:41and they all play very differently

01:42Just by equipping the weapon you'll get different moves

01:45and you'll get a completely different feel

01:46Once you've chosen your weapon archetype

01:48you'll want to be selecting your abilities as well

01:50So you have several choices of abilities to make

01:53Some are specific to the weapons and some are shared

01:55And then you have ultimate abilities

01:57which require energy to build up

01:58and we have sort of a camera cut

01:59so you get this spectacular explosive kind of aspect of the combat as well

02:04There are thousands and thousands of possibilities for creating your build

02:08You could create something basically entirely unique

02:10You can only change your loadout

02:12when you're in sort of the safe central hub zone area of the game

02:15but if you find that, for whatever reason

02:18a particular level doesn't seem to fit with the build that you've made

02:21then you can change that and try again

02:24So in terms of stuff that players haven't seen

02:26there is a lot because we've only put out a couple of trailers

02:29so there's tons and tons of content

02:31Particularly for a small studio

02:33we've created a game that's very, very ambitious

02:35The challenge is making all those elements come together

02:38in one big satisfying game that's going to reward curiosity

02:42I think we've conquered that to be honest

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