Child of Light Reviews

Child of Light is ranked in the 89th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
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Buy
Apr 29, 2014
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Unscored
May 6, 2014

Child Of Light is a joyous story about how tragedy, be it in achievement form or otherwise, shapes the strongest of us, how the only way to measure love is through pain. Aurora's coming-of-age is disguised as a righteous fight. There is a lot of tragedy in Child Of Light, but she chooses to see the triumph.

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Recommended
Apr 12, 2021

Should you play Child of Light? / Please read on if yet your mind doubts / Though sigh, you might, when met by such text / Only then can you find out!

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Liked
May 20, 2014
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Unscored
May 6, 2014

I want to enjoy it more: the hybridity of the game is daring and to be applauded. There's obvious passion and idiosyncrasy here, which aren't things you can always say about games spat from the cogs of AAA development. But delightful though it looks, and as winsome as its talking mice are, the combination of frictionless overworld and my frustration with its battle system left me feeling enervated. A less than fabulous fable, then, with a not so fairytale ending.

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Unscored
Jan 17, 2015

Child of Light is so staggeringly beautiful that it's not uncommon to find its presentation entirely overpowering the game underneath.

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