What’s sad about this is that there’s actually an interesting story and world within Ary and the Secret of Seasons. This is a game that simply bit off more than it could fulfil and suffers because of it. All of this screams of an unfinished product, or the stretched resources from a team unable to afford to finish everything they wanted too. And then, in the final hours with the game, I was constantly turning invisible and unable to interact with objects. One entrance to a town simply had a part of its road drop off right before the entrance. She dreams of being a hero like that, and she’s about to get her chance.Īmongst the frame-rate issues, there’s also terrible texture pop-in especially prominent while roaming the hub-world and an assortment of bugs and unfinished sections of the game. It’s some Disney-like fantasy stuff with the opening cinematic even featuring Ary reading a fantastical story of a Guardian protecting everyone from the villainous sorcerer. Red crystals are dropping from the sky and causing the winter realm of Valdi to turn into a summer’s day and vice-verse for the four seasons that make up all of Valdi. All around Valdi the seasons are going amiss. So, Ary cuts her hair and heads off to take his place at the table and to find a way to stop whatever is happening to the realm of Valdi. Her father is unable to attend as he’s lost in despair at the disappearance of Ary’s brother Flynn. You play as Ary who early in the game learns that her father has been called upon by the Guardians of Seasons in place of her missing brother.

In a tragic tale about coming out of the oven too soon, Ary and the Secret of Seasons features all the signs of a potential hit but is instead a mess of bugs, unfinished levels, and sloppy design.

Ary and the secret of seasons review