Switch | Child Of Light Review

After you finish Tears of the Kingdom and your brain is fried from fusing rocks to sticks, or after Persona 5 Royal makes you dream in calendar dates, pick this up. It is a short, sad, hopeful poem about a dead mother who fights the darkness with a sword and a firefly.

You are paying $20 for a nine-year-old game. But here’s the kicker: it comes with the Golem’s Plight DLC included. That adds two hours of content that is actually harder than the main game. Child of Light on Switch is not the best RPG ever made. It is not even the best Ubisoft game ever made ( Rayman Legends holds that crown). child of light review switch

In an era where every RPG wants to eat 100 hours of your life with crafting systems, skill trees the size of a small novel, and open worlds full of question marks, Child of Light feels almost rebellious. After you finish Tears of the Kingdom and

The problem? The difficulty curve is a flat line. You will die exactly three times in the entire playthrough. The game hands you a healing spell that is so overpowered, you can spam it every turn. Hardcore RPG fans will yawn. Casual players will feel like tactical gods. Let’s be honest: this is a Wii U/PS3/Vita game. It runs at a flawless 60fps on Switch, but there is no HD Rumble to speak of, no touch screen inventory management (a missed opportunity), and the font size for the rhyming text is criminally small in handheld mode. But here’s the kicker: it comes with the

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