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Team Asano and Claytechworks are back with The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales! Read on to learn how it plays, what it's about, and everything else we know so far.
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The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Gameplay
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is built around real-time action in a top-down perspective. Players directly control the protagonist using a variety of weapons, such as swords, bows, scythe-chains, and bombs. It is encouraged to switch between these weapons depending on the situation. Encounters frequently involve multiple foes, prompting players to pay attention to enemy patterns and use positioning, guard or dodge mechanics to avoid damage especially in tougher settings.
The game's world features layered layouts with hidden rooms and breakable walls. There are even some optional shrines with mini-challenges. Traversal is aided by the companion character, who offers abilities like a dash and a teleport that let the player reach otherwise inaccessible places or reposition quickly during combat.
In structured segments like dungeons, the interplay between exploration and combat becomes more focused. The levels present puzzles such as timed platforming, gaps to cross, traps to avoid, and enemies with differing behavior requiring well-timed responses. Players must combine their traversal tools and combat toolkit in each area. Upgrading weapons via findable items gives incremental growth, and challenge rooms or gauntlets provide optional tests of skill for extra reward.
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Story Plot
Humanity survives in isolation within the Kingdom of Huther, a city protected by a magical Spell of Safekeeping, while the rest of the continent of Philabieldia is overrun by beast tribes and monsters. After the discovery of a mysterious ruin outside the kingdom’s walls, the adventurer Elliot is dispatched by the king—supported by Princess Heuria, whose magic sustains the protective spell—to investigate these ruins. Elliot, accompanied by Faie, a fairy visible only to him, explores the ruins and uncovers the Doorway of Time, which grants access to both the past and the present.
Following the activation of the Doorway, Elliot and Faie embark on a journey that spans centuries, as they traverse Philabieldia and uncover layers of its thousand-year history. As they do so, the intertwined fates of Elliot and Faie reveal deeper truths about the continent’s origins and the kingdom’s past.
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