It’s all very Mulan, in the best possible way.Īs the winter guardian, Ary is able to use the power of winter to create little pockets of the season in other environments. This is an issue, because the organisation is grossly archaic and traditionally only run by men, but she chops her hair short, finds her brother’s sword being wielded by a rogue hyena that has appeared in the town, and thus begins her journey. The Guardians of Seasons (the organisation dedicated to making sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen) need the winter guardian to join them, but given he’s ill, and his successor is missing, young Ary takes it upon herself to go in his place. It soon becomes clear, as crystals fall from the sky, and waves of unexpected seasonal changes take over various towns across the land, that the balance of the seasons is out of whack, and the world is in need of the guardians to investigate the problem and restore the balance. Her brother, Flynn, was in training to take over the family title from their ailing father, but he has recently disappeared, leaving the family in distress and the power of winter unwielded. She longs for adventure – the kind that her father, the Winter Guardian, experienced in his past. When the game begins, we are introduced to our heroine as she acts out a battle using assorted household toys. Aryelle (or Ary, if you don’t want her to feel like she’s in trouble) is the perfect protagonist at the heart of a whimsical 3D puzzle-platformer that I should be able to recommend with no qualms at all.Īnd I really wish I could, but wow. In its opening scene, Ary and the Secret of Seasons showed me a protagonist doing almost exactly what I had done as a young girl, and immediately began tugging at my heartstrings. It didn’t matter that nothing matched, because what was important was the story in my head and the feeling of guiding the heroine to victory in whatever scenario I had created. Dolls that had been given as gifts were riding horses either twice or half their size (never the right size), plastic dogs were sitting on chairs meant for people and Pokemon figurines were leading the charge against whatever the common enemy was for that day. When I was young, I spent a lot of time playing out epic tales with whatever collection of toys I could put together in the moment. Ary and the Secret of Seasons – Whimsy and Glitches
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