

Get ready to manipulate the world around you because this power is second only to the player’s imagination and there is plenty of fun to be had when messing around with the game’s ecosystems. To begin with, Ary is quite restrictive with what she can do and where she can do, but the more you play, the more the game opens up, especially once Ary starts gaining the powers of the seasons and players can go from running around with a wooden sword, to placing helpful season spheres that can unfreeze water, restore life to fruit-bearing trees and even create frozen platforms for jumping on. There are plenty of NPCs the world-over who will require your aid with fulfilling their requests and there is also an assortment of items and skill upgrades that can be obtained as you go along, with the majority of them, requiring Ary to purchase them from merchants. It’s a 3D action game where a young protagonist must rise up to deal with an impending threat because everyone else is in the game, isn’t quite up to the task. The two games don’t marry up 1oo% but there a ton of similar features, starting with the fact the land of Valdi is made up of different regions, with each one featuring a different season. The quickest way to sum up Ary and the Secret of Seasons’ gameplay, is to call it a simplistic take on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. With the right player behind you though, anything is possible. Sorry Aryelle, (more commonly known as Ary,) but it will take a little more than a haircut and wearing your brother’s old clothes to make you a hero. To ensure the safety of the lands thereafter, four great sages were called forth to watch over and protect the vault, resulting in the formation of the Guardians of the Seasons.įast forward to the present day, events are unfolding and change is coming to Valdi, only this time, a new winter guardian will need to assume her father’s mantle and do what he, his son and all the others could not restore the balance in a world on the brink of chaos.

Instead, the legendary warrior defeated the mage and imprisoned him for eternity by locking him up in a vault. If not for the appearance of a legendary warrior, this story would have been cut short and a different ending attained. Once upon a time in the world of Valdi, there existed an evil mage and a horrendous struggle. It’s been said there was only ever a small team between 5 and 10 people who worked on Ary full-time, with Fishing Cactus also getting involved and leading an invaluable hand, before the game finally reached its eventual release. In the following year, during Gamescom 2018, Modus Games announced that they themselves would be publishing the game and as it turns out, was actually quite involved with the game as Modus Game producer Bruce Hayles is reported as assisting with the development of Ary and helping to “lift” the team up. With development starting in 2017, Ary and the Secret of Seasons started out as the sole property of game studio Exiin and found itself having its debut at Gamescom, where it won the award for Best Unity Game. By Jack Longman Ary and the Secret Of Seasons, Cactus, eShop, eXiin, Modus Games, Nintendo Switch, review, Switch ReviewĬategory: Adventure, Action, Role-Playing
