Blue Fire Review (Steam)
Journey through the desolated kingdom of Penumbra and discover the hidden secrets of this long-forgotten land. Explore mystical temples, where you’ll need to master the art of movement to survive increasingly difficult 3D platforming challenges. During your adventure, you’ll slash your way through daunting adversaries, encounter survivors, and take on strange quests to collect valuable items.
Pros:
- Beautiful cartoon graphics.
- Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Controller support.
- Graphics-fullscreen, fps limit (off/30/60/120), resolution, screen mode, anti-aliasing, post-processing, shadow quality, and texture quality.
- Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
- 12 save slots.
- Two difficulties-newcomer or recommended.
- 3D action-adventure gameplay.
- Tutorial markers.
- Zelda like quality to it with the combat and interactions.
- Jaw-dropping vistas.
- Puzzle elements.
- Emotes-find new ones from statues hidden around.
- Rest Statues-save, equip spirits, and Mana management. Acts as a respawn point.
- Voids act like self-contained levels, you collect everything and death resets you to the level start.
- The main hub where you open doors and new voids as you play.
- Tight controls.
- Fast loading times.
- Combat is very hack and slash, you have a lock-on feature and when using the screen zooms in and you get a border.
- Take powers from bosses, find and equip new items for your character.
Cons:
- Can’t skip cutscenes.
- Difficulty choice doesn’t show what changes.
- Combat takes getting used to.
- A lot of damage-inducing obstacles everywhere.
- Not always clear what to do.
- Really hard to judge jumps and air dashes.
