Child of Light

A perfect game. Requires a work around for certain cpu's with high thread count. How there was never a sequel is beyond me.

apesar de ser curto, é bom.

I have gotten Child of Light many, many years ago and I unfortunately put it down because it didn't catch my interest at the time. Randomly remembering it I decided to give it another whirl all these years later and I'm faced with issue after issue because of uplay, I'm faced with multiple hurdles. [list] [*]Have a new uplay linked? Better log in to unlink that one first, the game isn't authorized through it and you need to figure out your original uplay [*]Want to launch the game? Jump through obnoxious hoops each time with the uplay launcher [*]You made it this far - great! Now it's a 50/50 if the game will even work. [/list] Trying to boot up a game in my steam library should be as simple as hitting the play button. And for everything else in my library, they seem to have gotten that down. This is a shame.

Обожнюю цю гру за неймовірну мальовку. Кожна дрібниця чудово промальована, починаючи від заднього плану.Фони в грі та дизайн ворогів ШИКАРНИЙ я не могла відірватись весь час, хоч і проходжу гру в другий раз. Великі локації та пошук скринь - моє найулюбленіше зайняття в іграх, тому для мене це взагалі скарб. Сюжет простий, але сам світ child of light чудовий. Всі персонажі мають свій особистий характер та історію, не схожу між собою. Стиль бою приємний і мені не було нудно не дивлячись на те, що в грі хоч трохи, але потрібен грінд для прокачки навичок. Також сама історія розповідається в віршованих текстах,додаючи казкової атмосфери при проходженні. Музикальний супровід теж на високому рівні🫶🏻

Game crash at opening....

это просто шедеврально

This one is a tale of good and bad. I was right on the fence of thumbs up vs thumbs down. I tossed a coin and got tails, hence the rating. The art is beautiful water colors that stand out compared to a lot of AA games. The world in general is an interesting place to explore and I do enjoy the little metroidvania puzzles, though this element of the game is sadly underutilized. The music is great. Its emotional, catchy, and fitting. Those are the good aspects. They are quite good, but sadly they can't carry the entire game. The combat is something I started out liking and became a little indifferent to. The problem with it is that you only get 2 character in battle at a time. You can change them at any time, but having only 2 on screen at one time kind of limits how interesting I think the strategy could be. As it is, you basically just swap in the characters with slow and re-apply it every few turns. I like the Grandia turn order/cancel mechanic, but the game punishes you for using it by giving many enemies counters to being cancelled, which kind of negates the purpose of using it. So I would say, good concepts with lacklustre execution. The characters are as bland as can be. They each have one note and little dialogue to expand. Its a small, short game, so I don't really care that much. The problem for me is that they haven't made the main quest interesting enough for me to care who goes on it, so the near blank slates kind of bother me more than they normally would. That being said, the story is kind of just fine. It's there and takes me through the game. My biggest issue that takes me right out of the game is the dialogue. It spends its time rhyming, which was interesting for a minute...and then got annoying. To make matters worse, the dialogue was also mostly trying to be poetry. It's not quite Shakespearean dialogue, but its leaning on the idea of trying to be overly flowery and that is the fastest way to take me out of a story. I love the use of colorful language in the descriptions in novels. I can't stand it in dialogue. I can't feel the emotion of the words when I am too busy trying to decipher what is being said. It's the same thing with having a really deep message inside a story. I love that, but I'm not going to even notice it if the surface level story doesn't interest me. I need the surface level content to hook me so that I can enjoy my time with the story enough to dig deeper. This also works with music. If I like the sound of music, I'm much more likely to try and learn the lyrics and appreciate them. If you have a brilliantly written song that doesn't sound good to me and I don't enjoy the experience of listening to it, then I'm never going to want to learn the lyrics to unpack their meaning. Sorry for rambling, but I wanted to articulate that as clearly as I could. TL:DR It's a pretty game with nice music, dialogue that didn't allow me to get into the flat characters or pretty basic narrative. However, at least the world was fun to explore even if the combat system felt poorly actualized. It's kind of a mixed bag.

The artstyle and the soundtrack of this game shall not be missed out on!! The story is very good too as you go on with Aurora's adventure back home with her fellow friends. It gives you a very unique fairytale rpg that gives you the vibe of a tale straight out of a storybook. I've actually played this game years ago when i was around 7 to 12 years old, it very much is a part of my childhood and i wished more people sought this gem out. The battle mechanics are pretty simple, You will have no troubles if you know how to play turn-based games since this is also one. I've still haven't moved on from the OST, it gives you these epic orchestrated tunes that will uplift what you feel in certain scenarios. There's no voice acting which is not an issue since this game is out there killing the storybook vibes. Each character have their stories too, i particularly like how they explore dark themes while keeping the game pretty tame for the general audience. I miss this game and want to encourage people to play this experience. As others have reviewed this game does have a couple of flaws and crashes going on around, but even with those downsides this game is a very nostalgic factor in my life. I'll awknoledge it's flaws alongside my love for this game. It's just as poetic as how you imagine someone disappearing as fast the speed of light is.