It was a genuinely amusing fourth wall break, and also a playful poke at some of the more monotonous side-quests that exist within games.
These side-quests generally provide currency, which can be used to purchase upgrades or cosmetic items from shops, although sometimes cosmetic items are given as rewards as well.Ī moment that had me chuckling no small amount came at the end of the opening sequence, where an old man rambles about feeling like a side character in a video game, which is a shame because no one ever really cares about side quests. This opening also shows that the game offers side quests, from talking to townsfolk, to playing hide and seek to hunting down wigs stolen by Hyena-Monsters.
The sphere of influence is small, meaning that players need to be creative about where they use it in order to interact the best with the world, although there are areas within the world that contain magical stones, when a Seasonal Sphere is created it will allow the Sphere to surround a MUCH wider area, including one such stone attached to a windmill that demonstrates that sometimes Ary will need to time things properly in order to take advantage of her power over the seasons. The Crystal allows Ary to create a ‘Seasonal Sphere’, where the chosen season overrides the current one due to magic, for example creating a frozen area atop a lake, or causing piles of snow to appear to allow Ary to reach otherwise inaccessible locations. But once the Winter Crystal is acquired, gamers can see for themselves what mechanics make this puzzle platformer special. She is very much a skilled jumper and a decent swords-woman as well, fighting off bipedal Hyena monsters when they crash through Yule’s market. This opening segment introduces our protagonist with a rather charming cutscene of her reading an old legend of a Legendary Hero and inserting herself into it, allowing gamers to get a feel for the way that Ary moves. When the other Seasonal Guardians call for a meeting due to the seasons falling into chaos (For example, Summer Crystals crashing down onto Yule and forcibly changing the winter season to summer, causing ice to melt and people to react to unfrozen lakes for the first time), Ary knows that her father is in no condition to take the hike to the meeting place, so takes her brother’s clothes, and her Father’s Winter Crystal, and decides to go in his stead. Her father is the most recent Guardian of Winter, but has lapsed into a depressed state after the disappearance of Ary’s brother Flynn. The start of the game takes place in the ‘Winter Area’ called Yule, where Ary and her family live. The preview version I received allowed me to play two different sections of the game, one at the start and one near the end.
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Particularly as the Elemental Crystals of Spring and Fall are stolen, leaving only Ary’s Winter Crystal and the Summer Crystal free from the control of a mysterious villain. Mysteriously, the seasons are being thrown into chaos, causing the main character Aryelle to spring into action before the world falls into even more chaos. Ary and the Secret of the Seasons takes place in a fascinating world where the seasons are split between regions. Nature is a lovely, if finicky, thing that can easily be thrown out of whack.
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