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amazon Ary and the Secret of Seasons reviews
Ironically, that uncertainty happened from the beginning to the end of the journey.
From the perspective of the plot, the gameplay system to both graphics and sound that Ary and the Secret of Seasons will let players enjoy!
First of all, in terms of the plot, the game is probably really aimed at children, so the development company doesn’t need to pay much attention!
We will be playing the role of a girl named Ary full of lovely, bright, and funny.
One day while she was on the mission of her mother, she was attacked by a bunch of hyenas, she beat them down and suddenly one of them accidentally left a wooden sword engraved with the name of the brother who was supposed to be lost.
So she decided to set out to find an answer with confidence: Her precious brother is alive.
It is fine to listen to it, but the interpretation and arrangement of situations, conversations, or even how the relationship progression between characters is … stupid, primitive, and somewhat “less charming”.
Know that it’s unfair to compare an indie game with the Disney or Dreamworks works.
But we should not assume that if it is a family game, the story is not that important, right?
Characters trying to be funny but “trying too hard becomes uncomely”!
Their appearance does not seem to have any weight to make us empathize.
The speculative dialogue isn’t too bad after all but doesn’t push any of the emotions forward to the writer.
As for the little girl Ary … is quite cute, and arguably the only bright character in the overall background of this average plot.
The graphics and sound of Ary and the Secret of Seasons are no less attractive when the character models of the people are extremely sloppy, lack of vitality, and the amount of “polygon” or so the surface is boring.
The main characters are just a little bit acceptable.
The scene is equally erratic, especially in terms of artistic direction.
There are so many eye-catching scenes that are beautiful!
But there are also extremely many scenes that are boring to say, they are designed very simply and do not have any meticulous attention to the eyes.
The character movements are not that bad, especially the array of expressing character emotions in the cutscenes is fine.
But other than that, the NPC (uncontrollable characters) was like a “soulless corpse” standing there alone.
According to the writer, because it is an indie game with a low investment cost, the company does not have enough manpower to focus on doing everything in harmony.
But rather the graphics are not good, but the game runs stably, I do not say.
By the way, regardless of choosing any of the graphics options, the lag situation cannot be avoided, many scenes still run below 25 frames per second with a scene that is not so heavy.
So let’s say it again, hope the company will soon release updates to improve this.
Well, it is impossible not to mention the “sloppy” user interface that is no less, far behind the well-invested mobile games today.
Especially the way to arrange menus when buying, or opening our inventory is extremely boring!
Conversation frames are sometimes framed, sometimes out of sight. The items displaying “quest” have no way to turn off, although they cover the beautiful “accidental” frames I wanted to capture.
Ironically, there’s only the option to turn off the map …
What about sound?
Honestly, the music is pretty good, but the layout and the details are very bluff and inconsistent.
Invisible in general, the narrative is quite funny, thanks to the addition of the “dramatized” music segment, it makes it no different from C-rank anime, let alone B-rank.
Environmental sounds are also prone to jerking, sudden loss of sound, or “rumbling” without opening the door or touching objects around.
The voiceover voice is also acceptable, nothing outstanding and not to the point of pressing the fast forward button.
In this respect, Ary and the Secret of Seasons focus on puzzles and exploration, sometimes fighting enemies.
The game uses a pretty good 4-season system that blends smoothly into the environment, especially the puzzle array.
According to the writer, the segments using these elements are used quite well by the company, somewhat challenging the brain and tried wrong (many times is the other).
Each time you activate the above elements, the scene will also be changed immediately, especially the ones using the winter element – puzzles of this season are also “dynamic” and more freely solved than other puzzles of other seasons.
The matches near the end of the game are quite challenging, and as the writer mentioned above, using the right elements of weather mixed with finding weaknesses to defeat the boss is quite interesting, attractive enough to remove gauze re-experienced in the early segments of Ary and the Secret of Seasons.
There is a point that I personally quite like is that the player can completely avoid all the enemies that appear on the map.
The fighting mechanism is also simple when it only includes: basic attack, dodge attack, block attack, play a special skill that makes the weapon increase the damage capacity (when enough mana) and later … ability to open 4 seasons).
It looks quite simple, but most of them just use the power in boss battles.
Since the game itself is not heavy on training, the artificial intelligence of the machine is also stupid, and winning them does not give us anything, so the player can … run and ignore them without any effect.
Ary and the Secret of Seasons also has a sneaky mechanism, but the writer found this feature “useless”, because there was no sneak attack, nor could it lure the soldiers away.
Should this feature be as well as not?
While slow, I’d rather rush to use the most powerful weapon (the second half of the game has) than accept all the enemies even faster.
The rest of the things like stats upgrades, outfits, or weapons are all dealt with… money.
Money is only earned through cleverly concealed treasure chests, sometimes having to solve and jump to get.
Throughout the passing areas, players are sometimes offered side quests, and the rewards after doing are not worth it.
But for those who like to complete 100%, making them is also quite fun, not bad and the completion time is also quite short.
As I mentioned, the game also has treasure chests, or large rocks (smashing stones to increase blood).
Or if the player wants, read the yellow boards to provide more information where the player is passing.
Everything is just enough, the challenge to get them is not difficult, nothing to complain about.