Ava’s Creature Analysis

The game we are offering you today, Ava’s Creaturesrecently added to Xbox Game Pass by 11 Bit Studios, Inverge Studios And Chibigpleasantly surprised us. And if there is something wonderful about Microsoft service, It’s being able to discover games that we will later integrate into our library in many cases.

The principle on which it is based is, in principle, simple, but will open a world with such colorful environments that will remind us of “Still wild“, a rare game that has not yet come to anything, not even The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildas for his style more “cartoon» by their environments.

Let’s put ourselves in the situation

We will play the role of Vic, a space explorer with a special mission that is to visit the world of ARA, a place sick because of a corruption that plagues it, converting the flora and fauna of the biosphere.. All this, thanks to two elements that will be given to us during the first stages of the adventure. We will have to save the creatures of the planet and send them to the ark in order to preserve them.

The Nafitar Team that we will obtain during the first stages of the game will act as a purifier or a “weapon” for the corrupted animals, and the flute that the Naam, indigenous beings of the planet, give us, will allow us to use the abilities of the animals. to navigate the environments of the maps. Maps in which We can highlight the 4 biomes that we will find among them: swamp, forest, desert and prairie. All with unique and well differentiated designs. Exploration being one of its main pillars along with music.

To say that its musical component plays a somewhat fundamental role but that it really has no particular impact during the adventure. The flute reminds us of the time when we used to use the ocarina of a certain famous person, but we think that its use is somewhat poorly implemented, since, in the end, it will be more of an uncomfortable element to use constantly than a fun mechanic.

Purifying creatures and playing the flute is the principle of Creatures of Ava

Regarding the game’s combats, emphasize the low difficulty, since we will have to repeat defensive actions with the stick and the flute imitating the “song” that the creatures will offer us. Where we will have problems is in the accumulation of creatures when it comes to “purifying” them, since the chaining of “attacks” with the number of creatures becomes somewhat tedious, and dodging them or using the impulse with the RB button at the end is not comfortable. It is true that as the story progresses we will encounter a slight upward curve of difficulty, but nothing that we have not suffered in other types of games.

A style of play that will make us explore every corner

The good thing about Creatures of Ava is that even most children can enjoy the game without complications, thanks to the story appreciation based game mode no complications. We still believe that some puzzles or mechanisms are not well definedwhich will lead to problems in understanding how to do things.

The game reminds us, as we said before, of other titles where the warm and vibrant tones They make their graphic part their trademark. Today the cellular shading This is a widely used style as many developers prefer to use this technique as it helps to create eye-catching worlds that make the viewer want to stay and live there.

Inverge Studios has done a remarkable work due to its location, being a Spanish studio. The voices, even in perfect English, breathe quality. We are faced with a game that offers the player hours of tranquility and exploration with a carefully composed soundtrack and a very well managed difficulty curve..

What is our final conclusion about Creatures of Ava?

Even though it’s a platformer and puzzle game, we think they could be better worked and implemented. In the end, Creatures of Ava This is a proposal that has good ideas, but they saturate the experience and they don’t reach any port. It’s a shame that everything is really half done and we think that another year in the oven could have polished its playable aspects. It’s eager to show us its virtues, but they don’t end up standing out because everything overlaps and in the end we don’t know what or how to do things.

Creatures of Ava It is available for Xbox Series X|S and PC. Stay tuned and visit our website via the following link to receive all the latest video game news daily.