Nocturnal Review (PlayStation 5)

For this Nocturnal Review, where After years of traveling, Ardeshir finds his native island covered in a mysterious fog. Carve your way with fire and steel to find out what happened to your people in this action-platformer game. We are the only ones who can discover the secrets that lie beyond the Mist.

Nocturnal Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 1.05GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Graphics settings – brightness slider, and v – sync.
• Action-platformer gameplay.
• Tutorial text as you play.
• Three save slots.
• Can rebind controls.
• Accessibility settings – subtitles size slider, subtitles font, and speaker color on/off.
• Beautiful yet grim locations.
• Collect pages for lore.
• Button prompt icons.
• Many Breakable objects.
• Brazers act as a checkpoint.
• The flame gimmick in that you can charge your sword up with flames and then burn flowers/weeds, light torches and light up specific lever torches.
• Collectible hidden scrolls.
• The flame sword does more damage than regular.
• Torches can be used to maintain or ignite your sword.
• Subtle puzzle elements.
• Wave-based set pieces.
• A lot of platforming.
• 2D side scroller.
• Simple hack-and-slash combat.
• Phoenix Gifts is a statue where you trade your collected “souls” from enemies for new skills and upgrades from the skill tree.
• Unlock the ability to use flame charge to heal yourself.
• There is this Darkness that lingers and can block or chase you, with a flame sword you can cut through the darkness unharmed.
• Big boss battles.

Nocturnal Review Cons:

• You have no camera control which can make it hard to know when a platform is below or above you.
• Slow starter.
• The tutorial is so basic that doesn’t even tell you all about the combat or even about the flame sword stuff.
• Very dark game even with the brightness slider maxed out.
• The combat gets very reflex-heavy where you need to dodge and attack which is fine but they up the enemy count a lot.
• You land up staying in an area longer as you need to clear out the enemies then go back and re-light torches so you can proceed.
• The combat mixed with the light/dark mechanic makes simple sections very tedious.

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Nocturnal:

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Developer: Sunnyside Games

Publisher: Dear Villagers

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