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It’s like there was no subtlety in the colour department at all. And the voice cast try hard to work with the poor dialogue they’ve been given.Ĭolours are garish and off-putting. There are odd pauses throughout cutscenes, making them even more stilted and wooden than the animation alone. They barely move their eyes, and their movements are always strange and jarring. They all look like cookie-cutter people, with hair made from plasticine. Every NPC except Ary has been animated pretty poorly. Wind rustles through grass in an underground dungeon. It’s generally that the graphics seem poorly implemented. The water effects and the surface hadn’t loaded. My favourite was in one venice-like city, when none of the water effects loaded – I could jump in the water and swim around and hear the splash, but I was hovering in mid-air. Starting with the simple ones and getting worse there is a massive amount of screen clipping whenever you are inside a building or structure clipping all over the house you start in when you move the camera glitches when pushing blocks around that have Ary bend over backwards, flicker about, run circles or break her back falling through the floor more than once falling through the water once which resulted in the game reloading the last autosave.
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Sometimes, I couldn’t see the other end of a town square while standing in it.Īry is also full of mainly graphical glitches with a couple of functional ones thrown in for fun. The draw distance in towns is horrible, and had levels of popup not seen since the N64 days. There is lots and lots of fogging obscuring the world while the game struggles to load its own graphics.
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The graphics would not have been out of place in the PS2 era, and aren’t much better than the first Jak and Daxter for example.
But be warned when it starts to move its very much a game that feels out of place in the modern market. Ary may look cute and cartoony at first glance. That said, even kids will see the lack of polish. But don’t expect the kind of jokes or subtext that would keep an adult interested too. I can’t see many over the age of twelve having their interest kept by the storyline, but it’s probably pretty serviceable as a kid’s adventure, that doesn’t try to do anything very interesting. When there’s barely anything of interest to do besides a few random fetch quests, you’ll end up ignoring the NPCs, and rushing to the next story quest. The quests and distractions along the way are nothing like as interesting, which is not good when the story is basic at best. The story of Ary and the Secret of Seasons is functional and does enough to take you along the journey with it. From there it meanders into a set of four large temples where Ary needs to gathers the four season crystals and save the world. Strange comets have fallen to the earth and disrupted the seasons across the land and it’s up to her to put things right. When its clear the other guardians are about as ineffectual as all the adults in Ary’s life, and have lost two of the four crystals to a thief, Ary takes it upon herself to track down the remaining one (she has her father’s) and then save the country from perpetual winter. Ary cuts off her hair, wears her brother’s clothes and leaves home to take her fathers’ place as a guardian of the seasons. See if you see the similarities – Young girl dresses as a boy in order to be accepted to replace a male family member as a guardian. You see, the story is something like a take on Mulan. Ary is nicely androgynous as character designs go which works well with what happens in the story. Starting with a bedtime story of a season-stealing mage, we are introduced to Ary, a young girl with a fun plucky attitude, who never takes any notice of adults. For me, the first ten minutes of Ary and the Secret of Seasons painted a picture of exactly how the game was going to be throughout – screen clipping whenever I moved the camera, bad animation and graphics that look like a PS2 game a story that is exceptionally basic and quests given by plasticine NPCs that started with such soul-crushers as ‘play hide and seek and find five kids around town’. If they are set high, you can end up being disappointed as a game fails to live up to a great opening if they are set low, you could be pleasantly surprised as a game gets better after a shaky start or they could be exactly how the game intends to continue. But is it summer, summer, summertime, or another Christmas with no snow? The Finger Guns Review:įirst impressions count. Ary and the Secret of Seasons is an Asian-themed kid’s adventure game, with a plucky young hero and a season-based puzzle system.
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