![]() ![]() Similarly, the piano-rich soundtrack sets a gentle and mysterious tone. At times the camera pans out to show mountains off in the distance, while the grass waves in the breeze it’s genuinely breathtaking. The sun nestles above the Icelandic-styled mountains, offering a primal landscape for your fox to adventure across, and it’s a beautiful, if simple, place to do so. Your foxy protagonist is a living, yelping, sneezing creature – with glorious fur to boot – who pants when you’ve made them run too far. The main reason to return beyond ticking off the spirit collection, would be to experience the delightful and evocative atmosphere that developer Infuse Studio have cultured. It doesn’t help that Spirit of the North ever so slightly overstays its welcome, dragging things out when you feel as though the tale should be coming to an end. It’s not a complete disaster by any means, but it diminishes the game’s thoughtful outlook, when you may have to take a step away through frustration.Īs you enter the closing sections, the platforming challenges do step up a notch, as do the puzzles, but so much of the difficulty comes back to your fox’s wayward leaping. ![]() The times where you’re stuck often aren’t through a lack of understanding what to do, it’s you wrestling with the slightly ungainly controls. While he looks great walking or running down the hillsides, climbing steps or leaping across anything showcases the game’s more humble roots. It’s probably a blessing that there isn’t too much in the way of platforming or puzzle solving, as our reddish-brown pal isn’t all that good at them. It feels a little unfair invoking the spirit of Journey, but there’s some of that explorative, life-affirming adventuring here. ![]() There are occasional puzzles, which tends to be a question of activating things in a specific order, and the lightest of running and platforming requirements, but all in all this is more of an experiential piece. Still, it gives you a small amount of drive through your travels, and if you miss some on your first run through, it gives you a reason to return.īarring that notion of resurrecting spirits, Spirit of the North is a relatively frictionless experience. It’s a lot of skeletons, and a lot of corresponding staffs, which seems overly careless to my mind. You’ll find skeletons scattered across the mountainside and the country below, and you can assist them by reuniting them with their staffs. If you listen closely or turn off the music while swimming, you will notice that at first there are sound effects accompanying the related action, but after a minute or so, the sound effects just turn off.You soon discover the game’s loose task, which is to revive spirits and allowing them to leave this mortal plane. So when it came to this, it was very much trial and error to find the right way. I found this rather annoying, mainly because there were certain instances you would have to climb to get somewhere. Unsure/Mixed Feelings - N/A The Bad - Numerous times throughout my time, I would run into an invisible wall while climbing up structures/obstacles. However, there were a few times when I wish the Spirit Wisp would've at least given hints as to where to go. I found the lack of a HUD a good design choice as the intention was for players to find their own way. There was a sudden difficulty spike to them later into the game, but nothing hard to overcome. The Good - The game's puzzles were varied and had a challenge to them that was enjoyable. ![]() I won't spoil anything but those events clearly had an impact on me and I have no regrets. In the last 30 - 40 minutes game, I cried on three separate occasions due to three different emotional events that occurred in the game. The music is remarkably beautiful and quite fitting for the game's differing environments. For gameplay so simple, it is very entertaining. In fact, (apparently the developer's intention), it is very reminiscent of Iceland (minus the red plague stuff). The game's world is incredibly lovely to play through and take in the scenery. In a game with no dialogue, no obvious story layout and only two characters, I was very interested in the story and throughout the game, was theorizing about what happened in the past. 8h 36m PlayedDate Completed: Ma| Specific Rating: 9.0/10 The Excellent - The Fox is so fluffy and cute! Oh, I could just hug him. ![]()
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