Tunic hits Switch and PlayStation today - here's our review of this essential adventure
How do birds even know when a nest is complete? For a world like this, a world in a videogame, rather than up high in an old tree, completeness shows up in the details. It will be a single detail that sticks in the mind and makes you think: Cor! Look at that.A single detail. It's not something big. Generally, it's something small. Something hidden. Tucked away, say, under a bridge?Here's Ian's own review of Tunic for our video team. Unsurprisingly, he also loves it.
A Link to the Past is just one of a handful of games that Tunic reminds me of. I had almost written it off as a secondary text, to be honest: that top-downish topiary world, the cinnamon roll trees of Hyrule swapped out for fat little darts, the boyish hero in green replaced with a plucky fox. But this isn't a clone or a copy or an idiotic riff on cherished memories. It's proper synthesis.
Tunic! So you are a fox let loose in a bright, clean-edged world. Rock and grass and earth! You explore dappled forests and wasted shores, and you gather a sword and shield. You take on monsters and pick your way through ruins and slowly start to unravel an ancient mystery, one boss at a time. The same goes for bosses - are they Zelda bosses or Souls bosses? At times they are both, and ultimately I came to understand that they are neither - they are Tunic bosses, terrifying, tactical, brisk puzzles that encourage you to respec your character on the fly, picking through items like bombs that you may have collected, through new weapons like magic staffs or...hmm, I feel like I should spoil no more here.
Two things help Tunic's brilliant hidden game to truly live, and one of them I really do not want to spoil for you, because when I first properly understood it, I realised that Tunic was showing me something I had genuinely never seen a game do before. But the other thing that helps? Tunic's deeper layers, the weird, menacing puzzley permafrost, work so well because at first these layers obey the rules of the more exposed layers.
Taken as a whole it reminds me, in a way, of that feeling I get sometimes when I'm on holiday, jet-lagged in a once-distant country, and I go to a supermarket - for Paracetamol or something. I don't speak the language. I don't understand a lot of the customs. A lot of the products seem semi-familar, though. Semi-familiar enough to suggest their own potential uses, while, crucially, allowing for surprises. It's exciting, tantalising. The supermarket! Everything looks great.
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