It’s fairly ironic what number of players discover video games that contain finishing a guidelines of mundane duties to be cozy but discover them boring in actuality. It goes to indicate that possibly as people, we would get pleasure from such duties and maybe even dragons. Skye Tales is a cute and comfortable journey puzzle sport by builders Puny Astronaut and 4J Studios, recognized for creating Minecraft Console Version. On this story, we meet a personality who needs out of this “cozy” sport and is in want of a trip. His resolution? An enchanted dragon.
Theo, an inventor based mostly in Brinn, fully burned himself out of his job as Brinn’s downside solver. Though loving what he did, he realized he wanted to search out time to be cozy too. Utilizing his abilities for some good, he got here to the answer of making Skye. Skye is an enchanted dragon serving Brinn’s residents instead of him. Ring the bell, and Skye will come hovering to residents’ beck and name.
Gamers can soar and discover Brinn’s 4 valleys that modify in environment, corresponding to the luxurious and festive Avieshire, tropical Raina Falls, cool blue Coastin, and sandy Whispridge, because the dragon Skye. Brinn’s residents want Skye’s assist with duties bringing the neighborhood collectively, corresponding to occasions like a competition and a live performance.
Though it’s enjoyable interacting with the atmosphere and utilizing Skye’s singing skills to unravel puzzles, it does turn out to be repetitive over time. The objective behind every puzzle and look could change, however most puzzles are the identical. Though the sport’s major quests are linear, gamers should not caught simply fixing them. The burden of all Brinn could also be on Skye’s shoulders, or fairly scales, however it gained’t trigger an excessive amount of hurt if you wish to take a while to finish them alongside different actions.
Skye carries round a scrapbook containing a map of the varied valleys, progress on her quests, stickers collected for finishing duties, and extra. Whereas spending time away from the primary quests, gamers can play minigames to beat excessive scores for prizes, sing to the pleasant and fictitious creatures corresponding to bustlebees, luxlomen, and zeels, or get pleasure from trying to find acorns, Brinn’s forex, to buy customizations corresponding to hats.
This 3D puzzler’s visuals resemble My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, each in theme and magnificence, making Skye Tales a shiny and vibrant sport with calming music within the background that units the tone. Gamers not feeling the saturated palette can tweak the settings for a special really feel. Whether or not you need all the things to have a fairly pink hue, to be pale and muted, or fully black and white is as much as the participant.
Skye Tales is a cute and comfortable journey puzzle sport, brief sufficient to get pleasure from over a weekend. But, it’s additionally lengthy sufficient {that a} participant would possibly lose curiosity midway via as the way in which to unravel puzzles turns into fairly repetitive.
Skye Tales is on the market for buy on the Nintendo Change’s eShop for $24.99.