Neversong: Video Game Overview

What will happen if adding to Limbo Colors and a little metriculum in the Spirit Hollow Knight? Well, on the contrary, in Hollow Knight Add riddles? The authors Neversong tried to answer this question.

Sleep Rass

Why Limbo? because Neversong – This is also a terrible fairy tale about how a boy (and our hero of Peit is 10 years old) goes in search of the girl, with which something bad happened. Yes, here everything is not so black and white – the color palette is much richer, more light, and other characters are present, so there is no atmosphere of absolutely. But in general the spirit is the same.

At the same time, we immediately know that everything is actually happening in the head of Pit, who lies in a coma (the first name of the game – Once Upon A COMA). And it happened to him just after his girlfriend Ren kidnapped and dragged into some terrible place. But even in the subconscious, Pete is trying to find her.

Smile of death

What’s with her, where it is a terrible place, what screams are heard from the depth of the eternal forest? Pete asks other children, their buddies. Some of them respond, they advise something or they themselves ask for help. Others say that Ren is dead and giggle. Someone is always jumping, trying to take to the desired number. Someone sits on a tree, and one boy, suffering from “inflating disorder” (and foul language!), I swelled, stuck in the hatch, like Winnie the Pooh in the doors of the house, and shouts: “Find the same need for a needle and protruding me!”You now also do not light up? ART in the game is stunning.
But in general, everyone has their own concerns, because adults disappeared somewhere and many children go to look for them. Then we will meet adults – in the form of strange mandes, acting as bosses, or incense zombies that rushed to the pit. For example, a mom of one of the adolescents turned into a huge multicacio. At some point, our hero appeared and turn into gray-haired old people and will be surprised to look at the pit that remained the same child.

To find Ren, you will have to travel either in mind, or on the stomach of the main villain – Dr. Smile. His creepy image and a smileful long teeth smile are clearly inspired by all children’s fear and nightmares familiar to us. It is especially felt when he in shortened voice sits something in the spirit of “Bay-Bayushki-Bay, who does not lie on the edge, will come gray and biting for a barrel”.

Wake up to fight!

This strange, gloomy, but eventually, very touching and emotional story is told in the language of the puzzle-platformer with metriculus elements and battles. Pete runs to right or left, jumps, hits his (more precisely, his girlfriend) brochkov, then adult zombies, then bosses and collects coins falling out of enemies – for a certain amount of life, the strip of life.When during a fight with the boss, you need to jump on platforms, difficulty is immediately increasing.
The combat system is extremely simple – you need to beat and sometimes run away so as not to get. No blocks, deviations, special blows or accelerations. And all the same in fights with bosses you have to sweat. And we need to invent every time how to wake monster. For example, an overly swelling son of the aforementioned multicacies will have to roll like a kolobka on the dungeon to be painted by certain ingredients and drive up to the nose “Moms”. In another case, you need to sneeze a huge chicken.

Music is related

There are, of course, and purely jumping exercises, and search for keys, and the tasks in the spirit “bring me something, and I will help you!”. But all this is decorated quite nontrivial. We swing on ropes with bombs at the end;Compete in the speed of running with a gray wheelchair so that he shares the key;Cook “Smiling serum” from the brain;With the help of a girlfriend’s bird (she communicates, and the role of the inventory performs) I imitate the voice of animals – it will force strange creatures to lines in the ladder, and we can get to.

At the same time, many possibilities and riddles are opening as Pete gets new abilities – so, gradually it will learn to cut off the aforementioned bombs with long Lian, ride on a skate and even, just like Mary Poppins, flying on an umbrella. To get any of these abilities, you need to remember and play a specific melody keys. However, the elements of the metriculum in Neversong, Like battles, unobtrusive.

Platforms are often used as springboard.
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Light Hollow Knight, Limbo With fights and a pinch of metriculum – call Neversong it is possible in different ways, but in fact it is better not to hang on her labels. The authors, of course, do not live in a vacuum, so somewhere we seen. Including in its past game, Pinstripe, which also looks amazing. But at the same time, they still made a very original project, where the story and mechanics do not interfere with each other, but only help maintain the right rhythm of the narration.

Pros: Emotional history, combining darkness, sur, humor, children’s nightmares and children’s directness;Coloric characters;not very tense, but at the same time quite diverse and fascinating gameplay;pleasant picture;Excellent suitable game music.

Minuses: someone may not be enough difficulty and duration.