Child of Light Reviews
Child of Light shines in a sea of dark, gritty, often ugly imagery. That shine isn't especially bright or piercing; in fact, it's softer, muted. It lures us with its softhearted coo, rather than blasting our senses with extraordinary strength and brilliance.
Child of Light isn't a terribly deep RPG and it isn't a particularly stand out platformer, but it's a game that blends everything into a really unique, beautiful, and surprising experience. It's particularly impressive coming from a major publisher like Ubisoft, and I hope they continue to let this type of creativity drive their games.
It may not be as transcendent as it wishes it were, but it's still a lot of fun to play.
True aficionados would do well to leave alone but it's something unlikely to worry the developers here. Child of Light is RPG-lite indeed, but in the burgeoning world of videogame genres, there's plenty of room for that too.
Although not every element is as impeccable as its presentation, that shouldn't stop anyone from experiencing Child of Light. Simply absorbing its sights and sounds would almost be enough to carry you through 12 hours, but the game offers much more. When it clicks, the battles are exciting and tense. On top of it all is a cast that sticks with you long after it's all said and done. Child of Light may not be the biggest game this year, but sometimes it's the smallest things that shine the brightest.
Finally, a sidescrolling platformer for people who don't like sidescrolling platformers.
Laden with meaning (and in future articles on Digitally Downloaded I'll be writing plenty more about that meaning in the weeks, if not years to come, I suspect), this game uses poetry as its basis and executes on that vision so well that it is, effectively, interactive poetry.
A beautiful game to look at, and wonderfully polished, but a thimble-deep RPG.
For Many Gamers, This Will be the Best $15 You Spend All Year
Child of Light does a lot right to make it a great, charming game that comes from parts of the talented team that made Far Cry 3, which is about as far away from that game in every way as it gets.
A wonderful little title definitely worth your time.
A mostly successful experiment at turning one of the world's biggest studios into an indie developer, with the end result being a charming love letter to the best of Japanese role-playing.
A lovable combination of classic Japanese RPG adventure and European folklore, dressed to look like a gorgeous, hand-painted platform game. It's a little too slight for classic status, but it still has some of the old magic and mystery of the nineties Square Enix greats. It's superb value for a download title, and unmissable whether or not you played and loved its inspirations.
The visuals, the gameplay, the music, the story, and everything else — when all of these elements come together perfectly and form a true world. A world that takes no effort to get lost in, a world that takes you far away. Individual parts of a game are huge, to be sure, but it is a world that we as gamers truly crave, a world that takes us to an experience beyond anything we previously could have imagined.
Child of Light does exactly what it wants to do: tell a beautiful story in the shell of a JRPG.
Child of Light isn't the type of game we're used to from Ubisoft, but it's the type of game this industry needs. It's hard not to look at the game and admire its beauty, but underneath the gorgeous visuals is a thought-provoking story that'll draw you in. All of this rests on top of polished gameplay with enticing mechanics.
Child of Light portrays this through polish, style and grace And for its troubles, a perfect score
Child of Light is a beautiful adventure through a whimsical fantasy world, but its story lacks emotional resonance.
Child of Light is one of those games where the less you know about the plot, the more fun it is