Of Light Review Switch - Child

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.

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. child of light review switch

Combat is turn-based, but with a timer (a la Grandia ). You wait for a bar to fill, then you act. But here’s the hook: you control two characters, and you can enemies. After you finish Tears of the Kingdom and