![]() ![]() You’ll fight a range of enemies from Hyenas and other animals to monsters and plant-like creatures, as well as helping villagers, collecting artifacts and solving puzzles. Gameplay-wise, Ary: and the Secret of the Seasons comes with the linearity we’re used to in this type of game. Ary’s voice sounds fitting for the persona she carries, and the rest of the cast do a great job of portraying their respective characters and delivering their lines with enthusiasm. Having said this, the voice acting is pretty great across the board. Perhaps it’s both, but what’s certain is that it’s no masterpiece in its storytelling department. ARY AND THE SECRET OF SEASONS PS4 REVIEW SERIESThere’s difficulty in deducing whether the game is genuinely written as satire, subtly berating the wooden stories of the series it borrows almost its entire identity from, or whether it’s all a feeble attempt to be funny. Even Ary herself seems at odds with the notion of her heroic ability one moment proclaiming to be a warrior as she slices through an enemy, and the next timidly professing to be ‘just a kid!’, when the fight gets too much. There are constant fourth wall breaks through consistent references to video games throughout, and characters even chastise their own ‘bland’ dialogue. ![]() ![]() On the surface, we have a typical Disney-esque child hero story, yet in the subtext, a narrative that seems to delight in eye-rolling at its own quaintness. A relatively serious story interspersed with ridiculousness, the above scenario is greatly indicative of the game's strange tone. The above premise likely sounds somewhat odd to you. ![]() Upon locating and teaming up with the other guardians – of whom all three are found inebriated in the sacred Dome of Seasons drunk on ‘juice’, and who lay unconscious, victim to a gassing courtesy of a masked assailant – Ari eventually equips the other three season stones and is able to harness the power of all four, embodying the mechanic of the game. Being a descendant of one of the four guardians of the seasons, Ari borrows her family’s winter season stone, enabling her to cast her own personal winter biome at will. After setting out on a quest to find her missing brother, Flynn, a concurrent corruption of the seasons’ equilibrium serves to majorly disrupt Valdi.ĭue to the antics of a ‘dark mage’ thought sealed away by a ‘legendary warrior’, the cities of Valdi have swapped seasons, causing no end of disruption for their residents. These four cities and the four seasons anchor both the plot and the main mechanic of the game. The residents of Ostra spend their lives in spring, and those of Samhain in Autumn. Ari’s home town of Yule exists in a perpetual winter, contrasted by its sundrenched neighbor Lammastide. Set in the world of Valdi, you play as Ary, a spritely young girl of the City of Yule, one of the four you get to explore throughout the game. Attempting to cherry-pick the defining aspects of these games, the developers try to present an original and unique title that stands on an older series’ shoulders. Ary: and the Mystery of the Seasons is an action-adventure game that echoes the fluid move sets, combat style and quadrant of four main dungeon areas of Nintendo’s recent The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while simultaneously reflecting the cel-shaded style and whimsical feel of their 2003 Zelda iteration, Wind Waker. ![]()
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