Child of Light Review

Child of Light is a 2D side scrolling role playing game with a bit of a twist; but we’ll get more into that later. The main protagonist in CoL is Aurora (fitting for the title of the game), a young girl who has gotten separated from her father and is on a journey to reconnect with him. STORY The story of Child of Light is told as if it were a fairy tale. It includes a narrator who appears as if she’s reading to you as she introduces the characters and reveals the overall plot of the story. For those who remember the opening of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, it’s pretty much told like that. Also the narrator is the only one with voice acting in this game. The rest of the dialogue between characters is told in text bubbles; wherein lies my only problem with this game: Forced rhyming. Like I said, this game is told as if it’s a fairy tale and tries to stick true to that theme. At first it’s kind of entertaining and seems to fit with the entire theme of the game, but later on it just becomes downright annoying. The best way to describe the rhyming is incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes you’ll get an ABCB rhyme scheme and the very next set will be ABBC followed by an ABBB and so on and so forth. At some point I just found myself getting really irritated and skipping the dialogue between characters altogether. Graphics The best way to describe the art style in Child of Light is a moving painting. Or if you’re familiar with Okami then you can compare it to that. Anyway, the art style…