Shadowcat on 29/11/2010 at 11:17
I bought this the other day, and I'm enjoying it.
It's (yet) another indie platform/physics game, and while it's definitely not as awesome as Trine, it's still rather pretty in its own right, and fun to play, and although there's only one character, the gameplay is sufficiently reminiscent of a Trine character that if you liked that game, I would recommend grabbing the demo of this one to see what you think of it (~60MB, available in Windows and OSX flavours from the URL below).
It's also available for Wii, if you have one of those.
The game features a Greek mythology setting/story, and you control both the main character, Nyx (who has limited flying and gliding abilities, which form the basis of the platforming side of things), and the 'hand of Zeus' with which you assist her by throwing blocks around and such forth (oh yes, bow down before the awesome block-moving powers of the Father of the Gods!)
I believe there are more powers to wield as you get further into the game :)
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http://www.nyxquest.com/en/)
At US$10 it's a cheap and cheerful arcade platform puzzle game, and very much worth a look if you enjoy such things.
Koki on 29/11/2010 at 15:53
When I wished for a game which features "hand of Zeus" this is not quite what I had in mind
Shadowcat on 11/12/2010 at 14:54
I just completed this. (I wasn't really paying attention, but I'm going to guess that the thing that looks like a timer on my save game is in fact a timer, and that it therefore took me a little over 6 hours to get through it, which seems perfectly respectable for a $10 game.)
There are also secret items to hunt down, which you can replay levels to look for. I only found 12/20 in my play-through.
I liked it! It's challenging at times, but rarely ever really tough. Performance was generally silky smooth on an old machine, except when a lot of objects were topping over (doesn't happen very often), when it could chug a little calculating the physics (one presumes). Probably unnoticeable on more recent hardware, though, and it never caused any serious problems in any case.
It's a fairly relaxed kind of platformer, too, without any pixel-perfect jumping required (thank goodness), and the flight-based movement was a nice change. (n.b. I'm not saying that you can't easily mess up in this game; merely that the chances of doing so once you know what you want to do are much less than in some other games).
Gameplay has enough variety to keep things interesting, with a handful of different sorts of environmental interactions that you must learn to perform whilst you manoeuvre Nyx about the levels.
The graphics are lovely. Audio is nice, if not especially remarkable. The English translation (for subtitles) is a little lacking, but the story isn't all that prevalent, so it's not really an issue.
Definitely recommended to fans of platform games.
