#Wytchwood game review how to

The music helps, which while not blowing me away, fits each area incredibly well. Lent itself very well to enhancing that fairy tale charm. The art for this game is very unique and I personally found it gorgeous to see each new place or character.

#Wytchwood game review how to

Some people may wish for a more open game with more options on how to solve things but honestly, I was completely satisfied with what this game tried to do. Oh, you have most of the items for this soul but not this one? Eh, do that one first. A neat thing is even if the quests themselves are fairly 'make this, there is no other solution' the order you can tackle each set of four souls up to you. A forest, a swamp, a village, a sea-side, etc. The game is a bunch of zones, or separate biomes, interconnected by paths with different ingredients/animals/what have you in them.

Seriously, she can move those chicken legs and it is so nice to be able to just n through a map without issue. One thing that makes all the enemy avoidance and backtracking for ingredients not such a hassle is for once, one of these games has given your main character a super fast walking speed. There's no combat in the game, but you can take three hits before 'dying' as not everything is gonna want you to pluck or preen it for ingredients. Mainly because the game does an incredible tightrope walk of making sure that you run into these things in the right amount, that you're never endlessly searching for something but often have most of what you need if you've simply picked up what you saw along the way and still making sure that you're never overflowing with items in abundance so you click through dialogue, craft in your menu then turn it in without walking a step. Just wandering around, picking stuff up, examining things to see what you need to harvest or trap or dig up or whatever and then putting it all together and using it for a quest goal is insanely satisfying.

This is simplifying things to a large degree but that's the gameplay loop. So, what do you do in Wytchwood? You go find a soul, get asked to make a bunch of stuff, search around for ingredients and craft said stuff, repeat, until the quest is done. The game isn't heavy, but it certainly doesn't shy back from people getting what they deserve. I have to praise the Grimm's Fairy Tale feeling this game evoked as few games really give you that sorta strange, darkly humorous take on things. The writing is good, specifically great when it comes to flavor text and dialogue, but the world building is extremely neat. Each soul has it's own storyline, it's own areas you'll go through and flesh out the world around you more and more. Your main problem is a pushy goat you made a contract with (that you don't remember) to harvest twelve souls in exchange for.something you can't remember. A really tight narrative experience with a lot of satisfying crafting and story beats.īasically, Wytchwood is all about being a witch and crafting solutions to your problems using ingredients found all over the world.