Enemies come in several varieties, with some only being vulnerable during certain seasons. Ary can equip a number of weapons that behave identically. Many of these made me go, “that’s so cool!”Īry and the Secret of Seasons also has combat. For instance, putting the Winter sphere power on a stone will allow you to roll it across the now-frozen water. You’ll also imbue giant stones with sphere power, which will allow you to change the world around you on-the-go. They generally involve manipulating the environment with the right season (almost always the Winter or Spring ones), and you’ll generally be carrying energy balls from one statue to another on a time limit. That being said, the puzzles in Ary and the Secret of Seasons are quite good. Once again, it feels like something was cut. Summer and Autumn spheres, uh, don’t do anything unique at all. Spring ones erase water and create vine pathways to walk and climb on. As far as the effects go, Winter spheres can freeze water and create ice platforms. But after getting it, the game just gives you the other two. You grab the Winter sphere from Ary’s house and then go on a quest to find the next one. Every location has its own season, and you can place spheres of the other three in the environment. The main gameplay element that distinguishes the game from others is that Ary can create season spheres that alter the seasons of the space within them. Naturally, you don’t really go into towns anymore and the sidequests dry up.
After this section, though, the game completely shifts gears and you’re told to go collect four MacGuffins from the season temples. These places are large and packed with NPCs that offer sidequests, although most of those NPCs stand motionlessly. The first couple of hours see Ary traveling to various settlements in order to move the story forward. The structure of Ary and the Secret of Seasons is similarly uneven. It’s way too heavy for this game’s tone and the characters just forget about it.
At best he just knew it and did nothing to stop it. At one point, you learn that a major character is at worst possibly responsible for children being abducted and forced into slavery. Certain major plot developments show up and then are never spoken of again. Despite that, the story is oddly-paced and the enemy threat is ill-defined and not very threatening at all. They’re not overly long but I enjoyed them when they came around, as they have a very Saturday morning cartoon feel to them. The cutscenes are well-animated and have strong voice acting. As such, he’s in no shape to go meet with the others and Ary goes in his stead.
Her father, the guardian of Winter, is wracked with despair after Ary’s older brother Flynn goes missing.
The seasons are out of whack due to some strange goings-on and the local guardians are set to convene. However, it simply didn’t get far enough into development to get there.Īry and the Secret of Seasons tells the story of Aryelle as she fights to restore order and balance to the world around her. With more time and polish, this could be a good game. If I didn’t know that I’d played the launch build, I’d assume it was an alpha. The game simply isn’t even close to ready for launch. A lot of love and talent clearly went into making the game and it can be a good amount of fun a lot of the time. Ary and the Secret of Seasons has a large, colorful game world that aims to occupy the same space as the Zelda games. I love ambitious games made by smaller teams.
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