Split Fiction hands-on record

Everyone has a history in mind that they’d prefer to share, but perhaps they lack the ability to do so. But that’s about to shift in Hazelight Studios ‘ Split Fiction, which launches March 6 on PS5.

The editor Rader has a brand-new, cutting-edge system that allows the authors to tell their own stories and bring them to life in the game. They’ve invited some aspiring writers to offer their software a try–among them Mio and Zoe, two people with significantly different backgrounds, tastes, and personalities. However, an unforeseen occurrence causes these two of the most complex tales to interweave when the on switch is flipped and the tales emerge. Mio and Zoe need to team up to endure each other’s stories–and find out some of the techniques Rader’s been hiding from its check content. Thus begins Split Fiction: a co-op journey about doubtful companions, thoughts running crazy, and very unusual activities.
Developer Hazelight is a theater that is renowned for producing wonderful collaborative game experiences like A Way Out, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, and the award-winning It Takes Two. Their game are known for special themes, strong emotional moments, wonder play twists, and a good dose of off-kilter laughter. We’re happy to report that Split Fiction resurrects the formula that athletes have come to love from their past works while raising the stakes.
One of the two leading women will take command of the other people who jump into Split Fiction. Mio, a somewhat cold and curt capital girl, is a huge sci-fi guy who loves galactic battles, cyber aesthetics, and modern armaments. Zoe, a sociable girl from the land, enjoys high-fantasy stories of heroic trials, dragons, trolls, and wonder. The couple may be bionic warrior assassins in a novel one moment, but a system glitch causes them to travel together while switching between their stories. They may end up being beautiful shapeshifters on their epic quest through the wilderness the future. The computer that creates these history worlds is, at the same time, digging much deeper into each woman’s recollections and account suggestions than either one expected.
You’ll start by playing split-screen co-op, with both people traversing the same way. You’ll quickly discover hurdles that can’t be overcome by only one person, but you’ll have to collaborate to continue. Mio and Zoe’s abilities change as the story settings they are in. Each character does frequently have a unique skill set that allows one player to carry out attacks or movements that the other cannot, such as when Mio can transform into a gigantic gorilla-monster while Zoe becomes a small, flexible faerie. To overcome the obstacles and enemies that are preventing you, you will need to work together to figure out how to utilize these sequential skills. In Mio’s cyber-ninja story, a huge robotic law enforcement system and Mio had to battle one another. Zoe had to dodge problems and use a whip-like weapons to smash into the enemy while Mio had to use her weight and s to expose the manager ‘ weak point.
Not every story that Split Fiction players will encounter involves combat. One area was a rehashing of old extreme sports games, where the duo engaged in friendly competition while performing tricks on futuristic hoverboards. The women were transformed into a pair of portly pigs powered by springs and rainbow-colored farts by an additional surreal story area, and things only got weirder after that. Many of these regions are optional side stories that can be found during the main quest, giving players an incentive to do more exploration and rewarding them with unique encounters and character moments.
The gameplay in each section can change dramatically, too. While third-person split-screen action and exploration was the most common experience during our test run, there were sections with fast-paced vehicle chases, side-scrolling run-and-gun action, and even some tricky puzzles that tested players ‘ skills at pinball. We never knew what kind of theming or gameplay twist to expect, so every new world we encountered in Split Fiction came as a delightful surprise.
We’re eager to see more of this odd duo’s strange adventures, and fortunately, we won’t have to wait much longer–Split Fiction will debut on March 6 on PS5. Bring a friend–it’s about to get wild.