Dear readers, this is Jae, the founder of Studio Sai. Today we’re going to talk about some interesting things about the importance of relationships you build in Eternal Knights and how it affects your combat options, helps you defeat monsters, and ultimately allows you to face the apocalypse together. reveal insights. Studio Sai was founded on the principle of making games that focus on building relationships. So you can see that this has been a very important part of the game for me and continued throughout development.
Combat in Eternights is inspired by many hack-and-slash classics, unlocking more and more special moves and combos as the game progresses. It has a special skill gauge that receives a boost every time you perform a “Perfect Dodge”. These flawless evasions are fuel for unleashing a wide variety of skills and counters on your enemies.
What we’ve done with Eternights battles is get your allies to fight alongside you. Each companion has a unique support skill that can be used in battle, such as Yuna’s various healing abilities, Shia’s ice attack that debuffs enemies, and Min’s barrier skill that increases resistance to enemy attacks and dangers. Companions can also unlock new elemental attacks for your character. It can be used to destroy elemental shields that stronger enemies may have, or to use highly effective elemental attacks that favor against enemy elements.
Now, the reason relationships are important to success in combat is that you need to increase your relationship rank with each companion to acquire these support skills. This unlocks different skills and upgrades abilities related to each companion’s specialty.
By improving your relationship XP with various characters, you can increase that character’s rank. Depending on your needs, you can do this through a variety of activities, sometimes platonic and sometimes romantic. Examples include scavenging different areas for items important to each companion, completing special mini-games to train with them, spending time with them and getting to know them through dialogue options, especially his one For example, explore the city with a human companion and fight. The problem is, the world is coming to an end and you have limited time to manage all your activities with your companions. Some of these activities can only be performed during the day or night. So choose your activities and plan your calendar wisely.
Before reaching a deeper relationship rank with a companion, you’ll also need to enhance your character’s traits based on what your chosen companion admires. To do this, select the dialogue option that shows that trait and gives you more XP for that trait. For Johann, for example, he admires courage, so interpreting and choosing the most courageous dialogue options requires a certain level of courage. Johan provides awesome buffs for your character and other allies. This is also a good reason to date him.
We are so excited that Eternights will be available for pre-order on PS5 and PS4 this September 21st.
