I must be getting old. The length of the game, according to video game sites, is between 2 to 4 hours. I finished the game in 4 hours and 2 mins. But i have two excuses for this. One of a more personal issue while the other an issue i had with the game.
Firstly, i hate bosses. I know, you know but once again there i found one in a game. It is an easy boss but initially i could not see the pattern and what was i supposed to do due to my frustration in seeing one. So, what should have been a five minute fight at the most turned into 30 mins of me asking myself “What is the point of bosses!?” and “I can’t see it. I can’t see the pattern”. But i admit it. It’s not the game it’s me.
But i am not guilty for the second issue leading to an extended play time. It is the developers’ fault. The game has no map and you can get lost easily trying to find the way to places you have not explored yet. I had a major issue with the memory chest in Wither Falls. I had completely forgotten where the location was and kept looking for it in all the wrong places (i.e. I thought it was the name of the village!). That had me wasting around an hour of trying to figure that out.
Now that these are out of the way let me say this again. The game is fantastic. A peaceful, charming and mechanically excellent 2d platform game. Well worth the 1000 points you will spend on it. As per eurogamer’s excellent review of the game,
“Frontier has created a mini-masterpiece at the first attempt. From here, we can fully expect to see a lot more of Toku and Enril, and hopefully a slew of similarly innovative and fresh new ideas on Nintendo’s proving ground from other like-minded developers ready to break free from the shackles of modern development cycles. “
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