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Strayed Lights
An atmospheric action adventure combining a wordless experience with cinematic fights based around colors. Restore your light that was torn by shadows and face endearing creatures deformed by their emotions.
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Embers’ first foray into video games is an audacious title that takes inspiration from a number of iconic titles. Elements of Ori and the Blind Forest, Ikaruga, Journey and Sekiro are evident in Strayed Lights’ DNA, but will this amalgamation spawn a truly magnificent experience?
Exploring the lands of Strayed Lights can be a relaxing experience, but corrupted enemies lie in wait throughout the adventure, which should take between seven and nine hours to complete. While players and enemies have standard health bars and attacks, both can use color-coded red/blue attacks. If players can time a parry with the corresponding color of an enemy's attack, damage is negated, and some health is restored. Any well-timed block still blocks damage, but the many epic bosses will challenge players and switch modes rapidly. With the right timing and color coordination, winning can fee...
Strayed Lights is a gorgeous game that does something a little different, focusing on dodges and parries instead of attacking, and it is great. It does have some performance issues on Steam Deck, but with the right tweaks, it can be an enjoyable experience.
Strayed Lights is something rare in the gaming industry; a game that genuinely surprises us. The combat is unique and accessible. The story is told in a subtle, heartfelt way. The music and visuals are stunning. However, a string of technical bugs, repetitive combat, and inconsistent platforming sections mar what would otherwise be a stellar offering from a new studio. If it ran better on the Switch, we would be giving it a much better score.
Strayed Lights is a stylish combat game set in a wonderful but mysterious world where players have to understand and solve the mystery of what is going on
Strayed Lights is a short and sweet game exploring a unique, defensive combat experience. It can feel shallow and falls short in aspects like the music, but it remains engaging throughout its runtime.
Strayed Lights is fun for what it is and a beauty to look at. However, hiding in the shadows are issues that left me wanting.
There is a lot to like about Strayed Lights. In a lot of ways, it reminds me of ReCore in that you can see how close the developer got to something truly great, but a few key decisions and some overly ambitious design choices just held the game back. As an example, the combat would have felt less frustrating had the boss fights not been excessively long. Which only highlighted it’s shortcomings. All the boss fights have phases, so just when you get that feeling of relief and elation beating a difficult boss, it throws another phase at you. This will come after you’ve already used special attac...
Strayed Lights is an action fighter and platformer developed and published by Embers. This game is beautiful in the way it tells its story. There’s a lot to l
If you’re a fan of games that don’t hold your hand, you might get on well with Strayed Lights. Well, as long as you’re also on board with combat that’s focused around matching enemy colours and parrying attacks. This is a unique title with a striking visual style, but like Marmite, it’s an acquired taste. For all the reasons some will appreciate it, others are only likely to find boredom and frustration.
Strayed Lights is ultimately frustrating because there’s a brilliant game lurking somewhere here. Upon finishing the game, I understood the story to be about conquering corruptive behavior and going on a spiritual journey inward, but it’s let down by subpar platforming and gameplay. I would even argue that the game might not have needed combat at all and could have worked better as an explorative adventure instead. Perhaps Embers might consider this for its next project.
Stray Gods accomplishes a nearly impossible feat, allowing players to truly take charge in a musical of their very own. While there have been other musically-driven plot-based games in the past with stuff like PaRappa the Rapper, those games were more focused on the rhtymn-based elements. Stray Gods is far more focused on telling a compelling story and crafting an enthralling musical that players can direct for themselves. The talent of the game developers, creatives, and performers absolutel...