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Eternal Strands is a Linear Zelda-like You Should Play

Have you ever played Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, Genshin Impact, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and (well, you get the picture) and thought "Give me more!" ?? Well, I have and Eternal Strands sort of delivers on this. I say sort of because while it does carry over some puzzle mechanics and the ever so frustrating stamina systems, it doesn't quite feel like those games. I mean this in the sense that the world is not open and instead replaced by zones that you'll come to explore time and time again. While I'm okay with a more linear approach, it does take its toll after about 20 or so hours of visiting the same places or finding the same enemies with no true rewards other than a few collectibles here and there.  The storyline of Eternal Strands is deep but left me overall not fully invested. You follow Brynn, a fellow Weaver (magic user, essentially) and her friends and comrades who have been cast aside by the world and are now looking for redemption for an e...