![]() ![]() The controls are stiff, sprinting is limited, walking is frustratingly slow and jumping is awkward and physically unrealistic, feeling both imprecise and slippery. While I appreciated these themes, North comes up short in gameplay. Throughout the next chapter, its movement is limited to a slow limp, which is ended only by the healing grace of the fox spirit soon after. The scene that most inspired me in this respect is one where the player’s fox breaks its leg after a fall. At times, the scenery truly comes alive - moments like helplessly gliding down a waterfall, jumping from a natural fountain or zipping through the air with spiritual energy are where North is at its strongest. I appreciated this design choice, as it moves away from violence in favor of environmentalism.Īside from accumulating and using spiritual energy, there’s a lot of platforming to be done. Once inhabited by human civilization – apparent from skeletal remains found in the area - the environments provide ample spiritual associations, including the red-stained skies which indicate the player’s path to objectives.īy using different kinds of spiritual energy borrowed from the fox spirit, corrupted obstacles in the environment must be removed. At worst, this third person puzzle-adventure struggles to generate enough interest to keep a player going.Īs a wordless story without narration, North follows a red fox whose adventure begins with an encounter with the fox spirit of the Northern Lights in a location ostensibly inspired by Iceland’s natural scenery. At its best, it’s a tribute to natural wonder in an interactive, immersive form. There are few titles that garner my respect based on ambition alone, and of those, none fail as spectacularly as Spirit of the North. ![]() WTF Seeing the beauty of Iceland in heavily downgraded form. ![]() HIGH Environmentalist themes of natural beauty and peace. ![]()
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