This is used to solve puzzles, help in combat enemies as well as, as previously mentioned, bosses. When you use the ability it spawns a bubble around you that is filled with just that season. Each crystal can be used in any environment other than the one that the environment is in, like if you’re in the summer village you can’t use the summer crystal cause it’s already summer, but you can use the other three. There are a handful of boss battles, all of them require your magical crystal powers to help you defeat the bosses. Later in the game though, you do get health upgrades, like a metric fuckton of them, which I was grateful for though would have liked them to be spread out throughout the game instead of just being late game upgrades. You fight with the weapons, you mostly just need to combo and jump or dodge out of the way after a couple hits, it doesn’t take a lot to take enemies down, however jumping and dodging are kind of finicky, sometimes they do what you want sometimes… well they really fucking don’t. Though you can’t buy everything in the game, much to my annoyance as I like having EVERYTHING by the end of the game. Personally I prefer either the ninja or goddess outfit, both with the laurel headgear, it just looks awesome. You can buy the weapons, though you do find a few in-game, you can also buy costumes for Ary, as well as hats and masks, and even wigs of various colors. There’s also a sling shot but it doesn’t do much damage. I’m not sure if any of the weapons change the damage output but they do determine the speed and reach of attacks. You fight hyenas, red pandas, and I believe minotaurs with a multitude of melee combat weapons. The gameplay is simplistic, on the Xbox One, which I played on, “X” is a horizontal attack, “Y” is a vertical attack, “A” is jump, and “B” is dodge. You know, easy stuff for a… ummm… eight year old? Twelve? I’m… not that good at guessing ages. Oh, and you need to beat up the bad guy and try to find your brother too. It’s up to you to use your lack of training to find all the crystals, take control of their immense power, and return them to the old farts who are supposed to guard them. However, by the time you get to the Dome of Seasons for this guardians meeting, it turns out that the other guardians were knocked out and their crystals stolen. Anyways, a call has come in for the guardians to meet, but your father is too despondent so you choose to go in his place… without permission, acknowledgement, or training of any sort. They think he’s dead so they don’t want you running out and getting yourself killed too, and only men can be guardians because: sexism, though there are historical reasons in-game which you can read about if you find a specific set of collectables. You’ve wanted to be a guardian all your life and you’ve wanted to search for your brother thinking he was alive all this time, though no one will let you, least of all your family. Well, your brother was an apprentice guardian and he went missing, presumed dead, which has left your father despondent. Each season has a crystal and a guardian for each crystal. This includes your town, which is fine because it and the people live there anyways, it’s all built for winter. Your father is the guardian of the Winter Crystal, which is a crystal that leaves everything around it in perpetual winter. Ary and the Secret of the Seasons is third-person, action, puzzle-platformer with a really, really long name, not the longest I’ve seen but damn it’s up there.
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