Sylvain from Emeteria, a New Tales studio, here to announce that our fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG is launching today on PlayStation 5.

In Fading Echo, you play as One, a young Legend fighting to save Corel, a fractured world being consumed by a mysterious force known as the Paradox. To survive, you'll experiment with One's powers, manipulate the elements around you, and shift between realities to find new ways through combat, exploration, and puzzles.

Become water – then weaponize it

Water—or Æther, as it's known in Corel—is at the heart of One's abilities. She can manipulate it, use it against enemies, and even transform herself into a living blob of it.

Our goal with Æther form was to make movement itself part of your toolbox. As a blob, you can build momentum, surf through pipes, squeeze through narrow cracks, and launch yourself across the environment. This helps you reach new areas and solve environmental puzzles, but it's just as useful in combat. Get above an enemy, and you can water-bomb them on the way down.

One can also unleash waves of Æther and powerful charged blasts, drenching enemies and changing the state of the battlefield. Æther reacts with elements such as lava, toxic waste, and even Paradox corruption, opening up all kinds of possibilities. Drench an enemy before conducting energy through them, solidify elements to change the battlefield, or set off a chain reaction that turns the situation in your favor.

We designed these systems to reward experimentation rather than push you toward a single sequence of attacks. When you enter an encounter, we want you to look at the enemies, the environment, and the elements at your disposal and ask yourself: What happens if I try this? Sometimes you'll find a solution we didn't see coming. There's rarely just One answer.

Bend reality to find another way

Corel has been fractured by the Paradox into alternate realities, and One can shift between different versions of the same space—and even different versions of herself.

Reality shifting is another system we wanted players to use across exploration, puzzles, and combat rather than for one specific purpose. A path blocked in one reality might be accessible in another. An element you need to solve a puzzle could exist on the other side of a shift. Sometimes, instead of looking for another route through the space in front of you, you'll need to think about what that same space looks like in another reality.

Combat follows the same principle. Shifting can change the resources, hazards, and elements available around you, so the same encounter can play out differently depending on where you choose to fight.

Æther, movement, elemental reactions, puzzles, and reality shifting are all parts of the same toolbox. We want you to learn how each system works, then start combining them and finding your own solutions.

Explore a world consumed by the Paradox

Paradox Corruption is spreading across Corel, twisting reality and consuming what remains of the world. At its center is Maddock, the ruthless leader of the Paradox on Corel, who stands in the way of One's attempt to save it. Your journey will take you across floating islands and fractured realities as you search for a way to stop the corruption before there's nothing left to save.

Across Corel, you'll meet a small group of unlikely allies. Some stand beside One out of loyalty, others out of guilt, and some because they have nowhere else left to go. Each has their own relationship with this decaying world and with One herself.

One's journey isn't only about saving Corel. It's also about discovering who she is, uncovering the mysteries of her past, and finding the answers she'll need to save her future.

We've built Fading Echo around experimentation and giving you the freedom to find your own way through its world. A demo is available today on PlayStation 5 if you'd like to get a first taste before jumping into the full adventure.