Ravenlok is a new action adventure game that leans heavily on its bright and vibrant Alice in Wonderland imagery but fails to inspire in any other way
You play as Ravenlok, a girl transported through a magic mirror on her families new farmstead into a new world of fantasy and adventure. Its pretty standard fare, the world is animated well and fun to explore. There is an evil queen in the land who must be defeated. To do this, Ravenlok gets a sword and shield, some magical abilities, and some potions to help work her way through this new dangerous world. The setup and scope is very predictable and standard fantasy fare, there are evil mushrooms, soldiers, dragons, rabbits, etc.
The gameplay basically falls flat on its face in every aspect. the combat is simple and easy, no lock on target makes it easy to miss with abilities. The quests repeat the same fetch mold a few dozen times throughout. But where the game really struggles is its camera, which for some reason decided to go with a PS2 era fixed camera, which cuts off the screen and enemies and even Ravenlok herself throughout. You are constantly doing battle with the camera, especially when fighting large groups of enemies. Through the normal course of a typical action sequence you will run up on the screen and all the enemies will be down from you but off the screen, leaving you to guess on whether you should dodge, attack, etc. A lot of spaces are cramped and have windy paths you must follow which are effected by this camera style also.
Overall, in a just a 5 hour experience to beat you can do much worse, maybe worth a shout for you or your kids if you have Gamepass.
You play as Ravenlok, a girl transported through a magic mirror on her families new farmstead into a new world of fantasy and adventure. Its pretty standard fare, the world is animated well and fun to explore. There is an evil queen in the land who must be defeated. To do this, Ravenlok gets a sword and shield, some magical abilities, and some potions to help work her way through this new dangerous world. The setup and scope is very predictable and standard fantasy fare, there are evil mushrooms, soldiers, dragons, rabbits, etc.
The gameplay basically falls flat on its face in every aspect. the combat is simple and easy, no lock on target makes it easy to miss with abilities. The quests repeat the same fetch mold a few dozen times throughout. But where the game really struggles is its camera, which for some reason decided to go with a PS2 era fixed camera, which cuts off the screen and enemies and even Ravenlok herself throughout. You are constantly doing battle with the camera, especially when fighting large groups of enemies. Through the normal course of a typical action sequence you will run up on the screen and all the enemies will be down from you but off the screen, leaving you to guess on whether you should dodge, attack, etc. A lot of spaces are cramped and have windy paths you must follow which are effected by this camera style also.
Overall, in a just a 5 hour experience to beat you can do much worse, maybe worth a shout for you or your kids if you have Gamepass.