Ary and the Secret of Seasons

Ary and the Secret of Seasons: An Adventure and Platformer

Ary and the Secret of Seaons is an adventure and platformer developed by eXiin and Cactus Fish that takes its character from some classic experiences while introducing some of its own ideas. We will introduce you to this experience in more detail in this test report.

A World of Seasons and Guardians

The story takes us into the world of Valdi, whose different regions live permanently in one of the seasons, with one of the Guardians of the Four Seasons present in each region. The experience puts you in the role of Aryelle, or Ary for short, who recently lost her brother Flynn, causing depression in her father, who works as a guard in the winter. Valdi witnesses many strange events, with giant crystals falling from the sky and changing the seasons, and with the guards Ary must answer the call of duty and meet to seek a solution to this crisis. She follows the call in her father’s place. The story of the game is generally aimed at a young audience since it has a childish character, but at the same time it tries to surprise you with several ideas and sudden changes, an attempt that fails and in the end we have a weak and weak Play chaotic story. Although similar games don’t focus on the story, this experience does focus on it, even if it is one of the weakest. Your pages.

A Beautiful World with Technical Issues

On a technical level, the game doesn’t try to amaze you graphically, but rather focuses on presenting a beautiful world with its cartoon graphics, and this attempt succeeds to some extent, but still requires some refinement in some details. The game also suffers from some annoying technical issues, as touching the corpses of enemies will cause you damage, plus Ary can be hidden at times, and some elements in the environment can interfere, and there are many things that need fixing in this regard . As for the tone level, the game offers a number of good tunes, some of which we liked.

Simple Gameplay with Seasonal Abilities

The gameplay is very simple and includes movement buttons as well as attack, block and dodge buttons. The game’s special idea is your ability to control the four seasons through special stones that allow you to change the season within a specific environment. Each of them The chapters have a special button on the D-pad and the advantages of the game. One of these abilities is to provide many different puzzles that require you to focus on one or more specific seasons. For example, activating the winter season triggers water to freeze into ice or ice structures to form, while in spring plants grow that allow you to climb to reach higher ground.

Inspired by Classic Adventure Games

The game is clearly inspired by the classic Legend of Zelda games, as the adventure takes you through several trenches, each of which gives you a new tool to use to solve the puzzles. Perhaps the puzzles and the different ideas associated with them are the fun part of the experience, as opposed to the battles we found. The game is very simple and lacks…variety and challenge. We overlooked many of the battles in the experience because they are not mandatory and do not add any value to them. Leader Confrontations presented some good ideas that benefit from the idea of ​​controlling the seasons.

A Good Experience for Young Players

The story takes 9 hours to complete and the game features some side missions where you have to collect some things. These missions aren’t a strong incentive to invest more time in the experience, but they can keep some people busy for an extra hour 2. Ultimately, Ary and the Secret of Seasons is a good experience. The focus on the story was annoying due to the weak level and the combat was very boring and primitive, but the puzzles at least offer some good and varied ideas. It is an experience more suitable for young people than older players.