Seed of life series#

Many of the abilities Cora finds, such as being able to heal and sprint, are helpful with the gameplay, but they're sometimes necessary to move forward. She needs to find capsules that contain Talismans during her journey the AI also explains a few things along the way, often giving hints about what to do next. Thankfully, after stumbling along the little blue creatures (Namurians) you find an alien AI who provides you with a compass that also holds abilities (Talismans) that she can apply.

Seed of life series#

To navigate the world, Cora needs to take down purple shields blocking her path and solve some puzzles or series of platform jumps to continue. Maybe this was intentional, or maybe the glossary is only accessible that way when a new term is added, but again, there was no information about that. However, nine times out of 10, this didn't work, and I had to access it via the game menu. When this feature becomes available, a tutorial window appears, informing you that holding down the 'G' button on the keyboard opens the glossary. Some controls were buggy, like accessing the glossary. The gameplay was generally smooth, but it was sometimes a little clunky. Thankfully, there are checkpoints everywhere, and I knew this as I stepped into the ring, so I respawned feet away from the danger, no worse for the wear. Any gamer knows that red is bad, but I wanted to see what would happen if I wandered into one they appear to suck the life and light out of you, which was no surprise. I literally turned a corner, and there were some adorable, cute blue beings that emitted a red radius as they roamed in an incomprehensible circle. Just as in Dark Souls, it's powerful to realize that you are very much alone on your adventure.Д¬ora is not alone on this planet, as it would seem, and the way I found out was a shock. Very few games give you the feeling of real solitude a perfect example of one that succeeds is Dark Souls (all of them). Seed of Life is a beautiful game in terms of the color palette, fluidity of the controls, and the overall atmosphere. When it comes to exploring Lumia, it's a treat. Platformers tend to leave you in the dark at times, so it's no big surprise, and I should've probably double-checked the controls in my routine pre-game options menu perusal. I'm not usually a fan of tutorials, and some games get by without them, but this game had the 'feel' of a game that needed a heads-up.

There wasn't a tutorial, but again, I played on normal mode, so it's possible there was a tutorial in story mode. It's not a huge deal, but it wasted some time. I eventually opened the options menu and found the 'crawl' function and continued on my journey (after briefly smacking my palm to my forehead). For example, I could see a lumia plant, which gives you what are essentially mana increases (more on that later) behind a rock that was wedged fairly low over a small opening, and it looked big enough that I could crawl through it, but I had not been informed that I could crawl. Some controls were also never really explained until I found myself stuck and unable to get past a certain part. In Seed of Life, I had no idea what I was looking at: X axis? Y axis? Not the typical options you'd find in a game! The same non-information was available for the different gameplay modes it's not a deal-breaker, but I've never been a fan of going in blind. Any frequent gamer knows that in the options menu, you'll find controls for the graphics, sound, controls, etc., and they're usually very well labeled. I don't know if everyone does this when they play a new game, but the first thing I do is check the options menu. This was my first minor issue with Seed of Life.