Hazelight Studios' upcoming adventure Split Fiction does more than add a genre-blending twist to the cooperative action of It Takes Two.
A newly released trailer shows that the follow-up to Josef Fares' wildly successful third-person platformer isn't a strictly linear affair.
According to Fares, who provides the trailer's voiceover, players will be able to embark upon «side-stories» that are «completely different from the main adventure» as they explore the game's dual sci-fi and fantasy worlds. «Side stories are found in the main levels and look like a portal,» Fares explains. «Once you enter, you end up in a new world.» The trailer then provides several examples of side-adventures players might encounter.
Starting with a brief glimpse of an Arabian Nights-inspired desert strewn with golden palaces, the trailer cuts to protagonists Mio and Zoe floating around a wrecked space-station.
Then it shows another desert set-piece where the two ride a creature called a «sandfish», before wrapping up the segment with the two waterskiing across a crystalline ocean as they chase a futuristic hovertrain.