I'm getting a kind of a "Stone Age Sea of Thieves on land" vibe - there's definitely a strong implication of the same kind of multiplayer co-op (though maybe not so much rando dickery?), and it's got some similar visuals, but there's very little here to suggest gameplay.
I'm intrigued - Sea of Thieves has been one of my favourite games of the last few years, and I'm glad to see Rare getting back into stuff that's not just Xbox Avatars, dodgy Kinect stuff and nostalgia-bait.
I was initially worried it was going to be another Dauntless - the art style is reminiscent, but it seemed likely to head in the same Monster-Hunter-esque direction. The end, though, gives me hope that there'll be more ways to interact with the beasts than just killing them to make incrementally-improved clothes and weapons.
For a second I thought you were talking about Brazen, a Ray Harryhausen-inspired hack-and-slash that came out of one of Double Fine's "Amnesia Fortnight" game jams in 2012, which I'm still kinda mad never got a full-fledged game.
Please, please not Monster Hunter. I've bounced off that game so many times, in many forms. Plus, I'd feel absolutely terrible killing those pretty stag things.
I've only played a little, but the combat is weightless and unexciting, and fights are just so long and boring, even before the monsters start fucking off halfway through and forcing you to bumble wrong the map trying to find them again. Telegraphs are poor, and I never noticed much advantage in trying to attack specific parts/limbs.
