Unfortunately Lost Ember suffers from a few bugs and performance issues. Music and sound effects all add to the experience. The game gives a calm and peaceful vibe as your moving towards the City of Light. Lost Ember is visually stunning in some areas of the game, I really like the look of the game. Flying as a hummingbird Visuals and Controls While some of the game is quite linear, there are portions where you can wander off the beaten track and hunt for collectables, such as mushrooms and artifices. The game has a few clever ways to guide you forward, be it rows of coloured flowers, a clear empty patch of grass or smoke in the distance. You’ll come across smoking waypoints on your travels, each one unlocking a memory of your furry wolf-friend, Kalani, when you howl at them. You are quickly reincarnated the moment you lose your footing or fall off something. None of the animals you take control of die. There isn’t any fighting or great battles. Lost Ember is a peaceful game centred on the story it has to tell. Or flying as a bird enables you to reach the higher ledges in the game. However, some animals control better than others, while the wombats are a breeze to control, the ducks can’t seem to fly to save their lives, and the fish were prone to flopping up on the shore and dying.Īll the animals have their own little quirks, such as the wombat which can roll and fit in tight tunnels underground and munch on berries. My favourite to control is the little hummingbird as it flutters across the sky. One minute you’re a wolf and at the press of the Y button, you suddenly are in control of the nearest animal. Inhabiting other animals is done well and so seamlessly in the game. Finding and possessing each animal will likely lead to new areas and perhaps some hidden spots containing collectables. Wombats can squeeze through small tunnels, various birds can obviously fly, and fish can swiftly traverse through bodies of water. But you can swap to any other creature you can find with a press of a button. You’ll play as Kalani the wolf for the majority of the game. It’s a decent and enjoyable story though. There are also some story paths that are easy to figure out long before the characters themselves do. The pieces are quite easy to piece together and a lot of the time you’ll have worked out what is happening long before the ball of light has finished its speculation. The story is told through unlocking memories, with flashbacks showing scenarios occurring while the ball of light talks about what it thinks is going on. The only way the pair can reach the City of Light is by exploring the world deeper, something they can only achieve by using the wolf’s unique ability to switch forms between other animals during the adventure. I don’t want to go into too many details about the story as I think it is a game that needs to tell its own story. With one goal in mind: to reach the City of Light and eventually the afterlife. With both the wolf and the spirit having lost their memories, they travel together and try to learn more about their past. The spirit believes that the wolf is actually a reincarnated member of the Yanrana, an ancient civilisation that once walked the earth. The tale of Lost Ember is told from the viewpoint of a lost spirit (pink ball of light that talks) that is guiding a wolf across the environment. That’s the hook in Mooneye Studios Lost Ember, lets see if it is successful. Review code used, with many thanks to Mooneye StudiosĪnimals having the ability to inhabit other animals is a mechanic that has been used in video games before. System: Nintendo Switch (also on Steam, PS4 & Xbox One)
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