![]() ![]() Whilst the combat can be samey it is also tightly constructed and is only a minor gripe in what is otherwise a highly polished game that looks great, sounds great and is just a joy to play. Tails of Iron Review – The Rat-ional Verdict His narration is sultry, smoky and it fits perfectly with the fantasy style world that really does draw you in. I do love a good bit of narration and when it works as it does here it is a joy with the narrator of the story being non other than Doug Cockle, the voice actor for Geralt of Riva in The Witcher. For me it brought back happy childhood memories and I think it will make new ones for many others as well. There is a simplicity to the movement that adds to the appeal and the creators must have grown up watching programmes such as The Clangers as speech tends to be whistles and other strange sounds. Each time you play you will spot something else such as the background animations with other enemies always looming. Everyone else might need to check You Tube but what you need to know is that everything is drawn beautifully and wonderfully detailed such as the stairways and enemies. ![]() It isn’t trying to be something it’s not and it has a feel of a 1980’s 2D scroling animation such as King Rollo or Mr Ben for those that are in their 40’s like me. A Good Looking Rat with a Touch of The Clangers What you need to do is to react with the correct defensive move and this is one area that I feel is well put-together and keeps you on your toes. One neat mechanic is in certain fights where the enemy will have one of three different symbols over their heads. Your main moves are attack, run, dodge and each move is easy to pick up. A lot of attention and love has been poured into this game. Every quest results in you gaining something useful and nothing is superfluous. There are puzzle elements to the side quests and these add a decent amount of variation to your journey through the game.īeating quests will earn you additional armour, weapons or food as well as currency that you can spend on upgrades. However, side quests do make up for some of this as you are faced with escaping from a trap or rescuing castle workers for example. The main campaign comprises of mostly combat and if there is one thing that lets the game down slightly it is that the combat is not as varied as it could be and learning enemies moves doesn’t take too long to master meaning the longevity of the game is less than it could have been. Always check your inventory folks because I didn’t and felt a fool. ![]() Funnily enough that made all the difference. One of the bosses, the king of the mosquitoes took me an absolute age to defeat before I realised that I had a mosquito resistant armour at hand. You do have to put some thought into your battles though, so when you come up against the spear wielding frogs it is a good idea to change your weapon to a spear and fight like for like. From frogs with large, hard shields that are tough to kill to frogs with spears that seem rather over excited at times but as I say, this is not a game for serious minds but for those who want fun and a cracking time in a Soulslike kind of way. Some of the enemies made me laugh especially the mosquitoes that have really sharp backsides and then there are those pesky frogs. Shouting “who ate all the pies!” has not gone down well. They are sworn enemies and it will never end well! I’ve never seen a frog and rat together in the wild and now I know why. The brief tutorial pits you against a dummy enemy as you learn to dodge, double roll and become a brutal killer before you set out to save your brothers who have been captured by frog warriors. Slaughter you must and slaughter you shall. Running a country, making laws, being a role model to your subjects are the usual characteristics of your average King but not our Redgi. ![]()
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