![]() ![]() The levels in Jotun are a little convoluted so getting to the end isn’t as simple as walking in a straight line - one has Thora sliding on tree roots, another has her pushing from island to island on a raft, and so on - but they’re essentially empty. I get that the intended effect is to feel awed, but it just makes things hard to see.Īpart from the boss battles, Jotun doesn’t have much to offer because the other half of the experience is traversal, and traversal as a mechanic is not generally interesting. The game’s hand-drawn art style makes it tough to tell where hitboxes are, and worse, the camera zooms waaaaaay out at times to accentuate the size difference between Thora and her enemy. There’s also not much to the melee since she only has a weak hit, a strong hit (with an extremely long wind-up time) a dodge roll, and a handful of magic spells she picks up along the way.īesides feeling shallow, the encounters also suffer from poor readability. Thora’s attack speed is painfully slow, but it’s not the kind of slow that feels careful and deliberate, it’s just clunky. ![]() That said, actually fighting them isn’t good. Each one is much, much larger than she is, and taking down something on that scale is neat. Whenever Thora confronts one of the giants, it’s a spectacle. ![]() The first (and most impressive) are the boss battles. Unfortunately, it fares little better than the dry storytelling. While the developers found a wonderful voice actress to read the lines of their script (and I’m guessing it has some historical basis) I didn’t find it to be interesting or involving, so my focus fell to the gameplay. As to what the ultimate goal of these trials is, I’m not sure. I’m not familiar with Norse mythology so my grasp on the events here is a little shaky, but apparently these titans are being hunted down to impress the gods. In Jotun, the player takes the role of Thora, a female warrior chosen by the gods to kill a series of giants. As one might guess, this brings me to the subject of review, Jotun: Valhalla Edition, by Thunder Lotus Games. There are few things I enjoy less than giving a negative review to a small indie, but a not-good game is not-good game. WTF Why can’t I jump straight to the boss rush? Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.LOW Traversal isn’t nearly as entertaining as the devs think it is. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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