You can also call on your eagle companion to help you ascend to high destinations and cross wide gaps. By shooting small targets - littered throughout the land - in quick succession, you're able to propel yourself forward in a manner that'll immediately put a smile on your face.Īs much fun as it is using the archer's skills to get around, the fluid controls only represent part of the game's imaginative take on traversal. Additionally, the gameplay allows you to move through the serene settings with a clever control scheme that sees you building momentum with the protagonist's bow and arrows. The Pathless uses a stylized, painterly style that brings the sprawling, naturalistic world to life with the sort of beauty typically reserved for an artist's canvas. There’s some subtle signposting going on but the main intention is that you should explore essentially at random, using a sort of detective vision to spot puzzles you haven’t solved and check on the current location of the possessed Tall Ones.The concept of an unlikely protagonist tasked with vanquishing a dark force determined to destroy the world Is a familiar one, but it's the presentation and play that helps this game stand out. Overall though, there’s not much narrative in The Pathless and, as you might gather from the name, it attempts to be as non-linear as possible. It soon becomes clear that in order to set things right you’re going to have to have rescue all of the ‘Tall Ones’ by activating special shrines dotted around the four regions of the game map. The graphics aren’t very detailed, and the limited colour palette of cursed areas does get a bit monotonous, but the sense of exploring an untamed wilderness comes across well and feels very cohesive. At full pelt you move at a blisteringly fast pace and the open world map design means there’s plenty of space to just max out and enjoy the silky smooth movement. When you’re running and shooting at the same time your character skids along on her knees, and cartwheels in the air, in such a satisfying manner we still haven’t got tired of it all these hours later. We’re not sure that really makes much sense even when you’re dealing with magic but it’s perfect video game logic because of how much fun it makes merely moving around.
The rest of the time though you’re running around on your own, which uses up a quickly disappearing stamina bar, which in turn is refilled by shooting special targets that litter the island.
This leads to you gaining an eagle companion who enables you to glide around for short distances and scope out the world below, a necessity given there’s not a proper map to help you.
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