To say any more would ruin the surprise (and also the shock) that you’ll experience. You can explore the game using the motion controls of the GamePad, which is remarkably intuitive, and there are a few puzzles that have been re-imagined and utilize the various features of the GamePad in creative ways.
So this is no mere slapdash port! It fully understands the Wii U’s strengths and takes advantage of all of them. Here that part is implemented in another way.
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It’s much less frustrating with a map but you do lose a feeling of exploring the woods, having to remember and use landmarks in order to mark your progress.īut besides the map, the Wii U GamePad also offers you a bunch of features via its second screen a place to jot down notes, which is indispensable for a couple of the puzzles the full encyclopedia of creatures from Swedish folklore (which came as a separate companion app on iOS that you had to switch between) a hint section that allows you to get a couple hints for each portion of the game if you’re stuck and a mysterious final section, which may be well-known to anyone who played through Year Walk before. I’m actually not a big fan of the inclusion of a map while it does make navigating a lot easier, it erases that frantic feeling you’d get as you trudged through the snow, hoping that you knew where you were going. For instance it uses the nicer art from that version, as well as a map that tracks where you are and what landmarks you might find. While anyone who’s played through the iOS original will find much of the same here, the Wii U version includes a few additions that were created for the Steam version. It’s still just as effective, still just as chilling, and it does change up a few things.
If you’ve already played it, you might still want to pick this up, especially if it’s been a while since you’ve played the original version and the puzzles are fading in your memory. Let’s just get this out of the way first- if you haven’t played Year Walk, this is the version to get. Now Year Walk is available for Wii U, in what the designers are calling the definitive version of the game. This plot combined with haunting picture book art and creepy puzzles to make for a remarkable game, one which combined with a separate companion app to fully flesh out the world and mythology. They then headed to the local church, and safety, all in order to catch glimpses of the future and perhaps change their destiny. Year Walking is a tradition that saw a person temporarily losing their Christianity, as they fasted for a whole day at the end of the year before heading out in the dark to face all the supernatural creatures that lived in the woods and rivers. The more you read about it the more you fear what will happen next. There’s just nothing like this legend in modern times, and thus you start off the game completely unsure of what's going on.
I’ve always been a sucker for games that explore folklore I’m not familiar with, and having a game centered around the obscure Swedish tradition of Årsgång, or "year walking", made for a really unique and ominous experience. Simogo’s Year Walk ruined me two years ago, when it was first released for iOS ( review).
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