It’s easy to determine what items are in environments, settings don’t look tired and repetitive because the backgrounds have enough variance to look organic, and the layered environments give areas a sense of depth. This is another example of an indie game that has great visuals, as I find the pixel graphics of PA vibrant and detailed. They need to leap towards the camera in dramatic poses. I saw this in a film once, and I have to say, they’re doing it all wrong. I’m curious how it all pans out, yet won’t finish the game to find out for myself. By the time I was quitting on the game, I wasn’t wanting to read the dialogue further, but that was because I had lost interest in PA itself, not the story and circumstances of the characters. With so few things explained about the situation, players have enough room to speculate and guess what’ll happen, as Gail heads out to follow the few leads available and try to find and rescue the kidnapped villagers.
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It’s simple and straightforward, but this is a good hook to establish the plot of PA, as there’s important, personal stakes on the line so the PC has an incentive to go on her quest. Upon discovering what it is and starting to head back home, an alien saucer swoops in and kidnaps all of the adults, leaving behind only the children. StoryĪs the game begins, Gail rounds up the children of the village and dives into a nearby temple to check out a meteorite that fell nearby. I hadn’t realized my milkshake brought the monsters to the yard. It’s getting to the point that a young lady can’t walk outside of the village without getting harassed. It works, but it’s not as satisfying as just having normal control over the PC’s speed. Its primary use is for making longer jumps or dodge rolling, which you do by hitting the right button after you’ve hit sprint. Instead, it’s like hitting the melee attack button, as Gail will sprint a certain distance after you hit the button, and you can’t hold it down to make her run faster.
An example of this is the sprint mechanic, which isn’t treated as a faster movement cycle you switch to when you’re wanting to hoof it. However, this in part is an issue I have with the game, as I don’t think it was designed as ergonomically as it could have been. The control scheme gets fairly complicated in PA, so I won’t offer a breakdown of them in this case. If you think that fish is impressive, you should have seen the one that got away! Controls Instead of being able to approach fights with a handful of options I can switch between on the fly, it’s best to attack from a distance and jump or walk back as necessary, because getting in too deep is very disadvantageous.
The only ones that don’t rely on stamina are basic movement, jumping, and eating to heal. You don’t have a number of arrows and bombs that can be used as you see fit, using one of these draws from the same pool as the close-range melee attack. Your options in combat are limited, as all of them revolve around the same resource, stamina. Worse than that though, almost every action you’d take is based on this stamina bar: dodge-rolling, sprinting, throwing bombs, hurling rocks with a slingshot, etc. If you play PA with all combat modifiers turned off, which I see as being how the game is intended to be played, swinging the bat drains stamina, even when only breaking boxes. However, what I disliked most with PA was the game’s combat system, which is a common complaint amongst the negative reviews. Not sure why it has a cannon on its head though. This leads to backtracking and doing things rigidly, instead of allowing for more organic exploration and advancement in the game.
In PA, the processing of events seems to be fixed and linear, so that a specific NPC has to be spoken to first to trigger another one’s dialogue option, which opens another possibility, and so on.
For instance, I’ve grown accustomed to chatting with every NPC I can a handful of times, happy to learn more about the surrounding area, relevant history, rumors going around, and potentially pick up a quest. However it’d be categorized isn’t of much concern to me, as it doesn’t change the experience, which on the surface level covers the checklist of things to include in a good game, but not in a well composed way. Personally, I see it as a platformer that emphasizes exploration, dungeon-crawling, and speaking with NPCs, which is what I expect out of most indie adventure titles. There appears to be some discrepancy on how people would describe PA, whether it is or isn’t a Metroidvania or if it’s more of a Zelda II kind of game.
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