Because of this, it feels less like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and more like a cartoon Silent Hill, which is a shame – it’s difficult to appreciate the open-world when it’s so obscured in this way. The draw distance is bizarrely short, meaning you’ll often find everything shrouded in fog until you’re close. Once you’ve stepped outside and embark on the game’s main quest, the screen-tearing mostly disappears – but there are many other visual issues to replace it. Within the first few minutes of gameplay, severe screen-tearing makes for a bit of a headache while we’re introduced to Ary and her family. It’s possible that future updates to the game will fix the more glaring visual and performance-related issues (and I did delay the publication of this review to give some time for that), but as it currently stands, Ary is a technical mess. Unfortunately, that’s one of the few areas of presentation that truly stands out. Ary is gentle-natured but determined young girl, and that’s well-reflected in her expressive facial animations.
There’s a Dreamworks-meets-Laika style to the character design, and that style shines during fully-animated cutscenes.
ARY AND THE SECRET OF SEASONS PS4 REVIEW HOW TO
Switches, levers and traps will need to be manipulated with the seasons and their properties, and figuring out exactly how to go about this can be quite satisfying. The game’s many puzzles are where the seasonal concept really comes into play in a meaningful way. This makes for combat scenarios where you’ll need to juggle the different seasons on the fly in order to open her foes up to damage. Casting Winter will remove their thorny armour, but other enemies in the encounter may gain ice armour which protects them from her attacks. In combat, some enemies may be protected by thorns which hurt Ary if she tries to attack them. As you progress, you’ll gain the ability to actually manipulate the seasons, casting orbs of seasonal energy which can affect the world around you in interesting ways. Her journey takes us through four distinct biomes, each representing the four seasons – winter, spring, summer and autumn.
When the balance of the seasons is torn asunder by the return of an ancient mage, she must wield the power of the seasons and become to hero of her village. To make matters worse, her older brother has gone mysteriously missing while on an adventure and is assumed dead.Īry’s had to step up in their stead, and while she’s more than capable, as a young girl she’s not taken seriously by the patriarchal village. We learn that her father was injured in the past, leaving him unable to walk or care for his family. Ary and her family reside in the Winter district, where the streets are lined with soft snow and frozen waterfalls line its borders. The world of Secret of the Seasons is divided into four distinct realms, each represented by the four seasons. Growing up on the likes of Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank and just about any lower-budget titles I could grab from the video rental store shelf, I still can’t resist the pull of a game that looks like it’ll send me back to those days.Īesthetically and functionally, Ary and the Secret of Seasons absolutely fits the bill. If there’s any niche kind of game I’m an absolute sucker for, it’s the PS2-era character platformer.
0 kommentar(er)
