The companion sport to the present, Zorro The Chronicles is a child-friendly hack-and-slash journey. The sport reimagines the legend of Zorro by means of a collection of 18 missions you undertake to liberate the folks of California from Sergeant Garcia’s military.
The sport begins with a quick cutscene then plunges you instantly into the primary mission. This selection is smart, largely as a result of it’s a protected assumption that most individuals enjoying it is going to be youngsters who benefit from the present. Even in the event you haven’t seen it, you’ll work out what’s occurring simply with a passing information of the Zorro folklore.
The 18 missions forge a story, with the completion of every revealing clues that unlock the subsequent. This provides Zorro The Chronicles a way of development because the stakes construct with every mission.
You possibly can select to don the Zorro masks and cape as both Diego or Ines de la Vega. Diego begins every mission with extra energy, whereas Ines has extra life. The distinction it makes to the gameplay is minimal, particularly as the 2 characters share the abilities you spend money on as you progress. However it’s nonetheless good to see Ines given a proactive position within the masked vigilante’s antics.
You possibly can return and replay every mission as typically as you want, and the sport offers you loads of causes to take action. In every one, you might be provided bonus factors for performing sure duties outdoors of the principle aim. These embrace utilizing the surroundings in numerous methods to take out the guards, utilizing sure particular strikes and placing up posters round city mocking Sergeant Garcia. Every mission additionally provides two beginning factors, tailor-made towards a stealth or fight method respectively.
The gameplay and controls are easy. You sneak round buildings, use your whip to scale partitions and battle guards to reclaim ill-gotten taxes and free prisoners. It’s straightforward to button-mash your method by means of close to sufficient each mission.
I feel the simplicity of it is just truthful as a result of it’s geared toward youngsters. That is very clearly mirrored within the sport’s humorousness and method to violence. There isn’t a seen blood. When you run out of well being, somewhat than dying, you flee in a cloud of smoke. The guards you defeat together with your sword lay dazed on the bottom with stars swirling above their heads. You possibly can knock them off balconies and so they simply dangle there. (I spent far too lengthy making an attempt to stamp on their fingers so they’d fall off, pondering they may climb again up and assault.) Certainly one of your particular strikes includes chopping the trousers off a guard to reveal his frilly underwear.
With this context in thoughts, Zorro The Chronicles does lots of what it units out to realize. It’s not the deepest or most complicated sport you’ll ever play, however neither is it designed to be. It’s a newbie sport for youths to really feel extra immersed on the planet of a TV present. It’s nonetheless a bit on the dear facet for what it’s, but it surely does an honest job of introducing motion gaming to youngsters who will graduate to extra concerned titles.
