Fidget will assist with magical projectiles and your trusty blade, Ahrah, will grant you the Storm ability. There’s just not much to work with.ĭust’s melee combat with the Blade of Ahrah isn’t your only means of attack, however. Though creativity of your combo structure is stunted with a limited move set prepare to see the same order of attacks over and over again. The combat system lets you absolutely body the unfortunate monsters that cross your path with unrelenting combos, which is fun. There aren’t any directional inputs accompanying your combos aside from holding down for two attacks which are angled downward. Combat is incredibly simplistic, pressing either Y or X a series of times or a combination of the two will give you a string of attacks. Fat combo strings coupled with stylish movement makes for an exciting time all around, until the repetitiveness begins to set in. The highlight of Dust: An Elysian Tail is most certainly the fast-paced combat. The music, gameplay, and environments are seemingly the only redeeming qualities of Dust: An Elysian Tail. Sounds possibly cool right? Too bad it flimsily flops on several accounts, including execution of narrative, characters devoid of any likeability, and unappealing designs for said characters. Our heroes tour the fantasy world of Falana looking to stop the tyrannical General Gaius from his destructive campaign of purging those deemed a cosmic mistake. This game is an action adventure featuring our anthropomorphic protagonist Dust, his talking sword the Blade of Ahrah, and a quirky Nimbat (Blade of Ahrah’s guardian) named Fidget. Publisher: Humble Hearts (Nintendo Switch)ĭust: An Elysian Tail is a 2D, hack n’ slash platformer with RPG elements sprinkled in for good measure. And I can’t say I was missing all that much. Regardless of this, the latest port was my first time having any experience with Dust: An Elysian Tail. This title originally launched several years ago, back in 2012 on the Xbox 360, and has seen subsequent ports to other platforms since. Dust: An Elysian Tail debuts it’s Nintendo Switch release today, September 10th, 2018.
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