While Owlboy is not really a challenging game, the title has a good balance between the exploration phases and more tense moments, where the simple error could hurt you badly. All in all, it’s a well-constructed narrative that takes us through the world of this charming yet silent Otus, with a good rhythm, that can be completed in about 8 hours. You’ll travel back and forth across numerous region of this world in the sky, filled with floating villages or deep dungeons filled with riddles to solve, treasure to find and bosses to beat.
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Now don’t expect that the game boils down to simple vertical shooting games, as it remains above all an adventure game, full of exploration elements inspired by names such as The Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus as well as other Metroidvanias. So it’s up to Owlboy to carry him around and make us of his firepower, adding this shoot’em up part to the game mechanics, on top of other abilities that will unlock throughout the adventure. The later is unable to explore the verticality of the world as quickly as our hero being a “simple” human, but is equipped with a rifle to attack monsters at a safe distance. While our young owl can fly pretty much everywhere, he can’t hurt enemies, as his mere spin attack merely stuns them, but he’s rather gifted at carrying heavy objects and that’s where Geddy comes into the strategy. This friendly duo is also an opportunity to get explain to you the “combat” mechanics of Owlboy. Otus is then tasked by his teacher Asio to embark on a breathtaking adventure to thwart the plans of pirates with Geddy. The latter is cause by a surprise attack of a band of sky pirates determined to seize the secrets of the Owl people, seizing eventually another ancient Owl relic, which we’ll discover eventually is capable of granting ancestral power to its bearer if he manages to collect the other remaining ones hidden in this world. Our charming little floating village of Vellie, where Otus lives, gets harassed by a mischievous entity, and our hero will start chasing him into an abandoned temple with the help of his friend Geddy, and eventually finds a strange artifact and witness a tremor. Like most adventure games, Owlboy’s story starts with a critical plot twist, which will serve pretty much as the introduction to the world and key characters, as well as gameplay tutorial. The story is pretty much a fantasy one, where Otus and his teacher Asio are humanoid owl creatures that are simply called Owls, and live in a sky world full of floating islands and ancient civilization relics, constantly under the mercy of flying pirates. To make matters worse, his mentor Asio is particularly demanding with him, constantly crushing his dreams, in hope that he would hopefully push himself to excel and accomplish great things. Players in Owlboy embody a young owl “boy” named Otus, who we discover is rather slacking in natural talent, shy but also mute, yet is our future hero in the game.
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That game, Owlboy, eventually matured and cooked in the Norwegian ovens, to finally release on PC back in November 2016, and is finally out on the Nintendo Switch which gave me the chance to try it… And I rarely say that, but I absolutely loved it! Back in 2013, Norway’s very own D-Pad studio impressed the indie community when they launch a demo of little game full of surprises.