![]() Immortals Fenyx Rising is out on 3 December £51.99. It’s fun to play and I dare say I will keep chipping away at it for weeks to come, but say what you want about Norwich in the dark ages – at least there was real depth beneath all that mud. The result is a game about mythology that somehow lacks a sense of mystery. It’s a bit like running around an empty theme park, all fibreglass diorama and canned pyrotechnics. These are purely aesthetic, rather abstract spaces, and so it’s hard to get invested. But these don’t have that lived-in quality that most of these games manage to convey, because, of course, no one lives there. Each area of the Golden Isles is inspired by the mythology of its godly owner, so Aphrodite basks among meadows and waterfalls in the warm spring sunshine, whereas Ares lives in a rocky cauldron of war. Immortals has some old-fashioned habits, like convoluted pressure-pad puzzles and boss fights that go on too long, but that’s not entirely it. There’s a nice flow to it all and it’s easy to settle into the rhythm of exploring, looting and upgrading. Liberating the gods involves retrieving their essences from Zelda-style dungeons and then fighting a boss. Then you run, jump and glide with Daedalus’ wings all over the place, diving into a vault here, solving an environmental puzzle there, or just beating up roaming bears and minotaurs to gather some loot. First you have to climb up statues of the gods and scan the environment, probing the landscape for areas of interest, which are then tagged on your map. ![]() The painterly art style disguises this flattering imitation with about as much subtlety as soldiers hiding inside a giant wooden horse.Īfter customising your character – you can also change how Fenyx looks and sounds in the Hall of the Gods later on – and being introduced to the various things you can do, Immortals sets you free to explore the different regions of the Golden Isles as you like. There’s even a big red ethereal foe towering ominously over the centre of the map, waiting for you to save a quartet of far-flung deities before confronting him. Clambering over mountains while keeping an eye on your stamina meter, gathering fruit and flowers to cook potions, delving into vaults to solve physics puzzles let’s just say there are a few nods. ![]() The idea for Immortals struck the developers when they were researching ancient Greece for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, but they evidently found time for a few study breaks in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, too. Immortals Fenyx Rising may sound like a chewed-up heavy metal tape your dad found at a car boot sale, but it’s actually a charming open-world adventure where you bounce around the heavens solving problems for the gods. IMMORTALS FENYX RISING 2,250 Credits S 27.99 Add to Wishlist See More Released on Earn up to 14. SOME PRODUCTS IN YOUR CART HAVE BEEN REMOVED DUE TO AGE GATE Close.
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