![]() ![]() The places you travel through on this journey can be quite stunning and beautiful, the game drawing heavy inspiration from Iceland’s natural environments. Since the game never comes out and says anything about the plot, the fact you’re helping to restore the Northern Lights is mostly conveyed through late game actions and inscriptions on stones and walls. You don’t seem to be able to trigger it to give you hints manually though, so you often have to hope it will give you some guidance if you’re stuck and wondering what you’re meant to do in one of the many open areas of the game. ![]() While you could bark at her and get a reply before, she quickly gets downgraded to something more like Navi from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, buzzing around you and sometimes flitting over to areas of interest to highlight them. However, while it does seem like you’re meant to develop a sort of companionship with this other fox, very quickly she gets demoted to a mote of light that loses any sort of personality or character. A strange red corruption has been spotted in the sky, your fox heading after it and joining up with a ghostly blue fox for the adventure. Spirit of the North has you begin as a rather gorgeously detailed red fox, although from certain angles its fur rendering doesn’t look perfect. Spirit of the North, however, completely avoids words and practically has no narrative, choosing instead to be a meditative journey where you are meant to extract meaning from some rather basic and repeated images and details. Both are indie games I played on PS4 where you play as a fox, explore wide open and often beautiful areas, and undergo some sort of spiritual journey, although The First Tree is happy to throw in narration and make it more about the storytellers than your adventure as the vulpine protagonist. back to enjoying the beauty that is spirit of the north… Spirit of the north does have its pacing issues for the 2nd half of this 5 hour long game, but the overall package makes spirit of the north a must play for adventure and platforming fans… I give Spirit of the North a 7.It was practically inevitable that I’d compare Spirit of the North with The First Tree. back to enjoying the environment and music. let me breathe… thankfully towards the end, things start to go back to the way they should be. I would’ve loved moments like this thrown in between the puzzle solving rather than new puzzle area after new puzzle area. it would’ve bee na much more enjoyable experience just playing with the mechanics and not having to constantly find a flower to pill your energy from in between every switch press… its all just feels overwhelming in the final stretch, really making me miss those beginning moments when things were simple, and it was about enjoying the experience. spirit of the north becomes more puzzle platform and less puzzle adventure, here you’ll be activating symbols still, but not so much in a linear fashion, they now act as switches, so you’ll be in the same area running round figuring out which switch to throw to move onto the next switch until your able to leave the area, sometimes being introduced to a new ability to help you solve new puzzles, such as the ability to leave your body and activate switches out of reach to your solid form… an ability that has potential, but these puzzles proved to be a nuisance thanks to them being tied to a timer, and the switch so far out of reach that you don’t have a moment to spare on your way to activating it… overall I wish the spirit didn’t leave your body when youd activate a symbol, or destroy an object. Spirit of the North A Beautiful Adventure Spirit of the North is a 5 hour long puzzle platforming game where you play as a fox accompanied Spirit of the North A Beautiful Adventure Spirit of the North is a 5 hour long puzzle platforming game where you play as a fox accompanied by a spirit, at first things are pretty straight forward, and this is when spirit of the north Is at its best, it’s at first a beautiful linear journey, with snow, and ice, and finding symbols to bring to life to move forward, all while beautiful chill inducing music plays in the background, spirit of the north starts as a game that feels like hot chocolate on a cold day and then the second half of the game happens. ![]()
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