![]() ![]() More than once, we took a screenshot, and we aren’t the screenshotting types.Ĭombat is difficult to get right in a game like Ravenlok, and you can tell that Cococumber struggled. We’d suspect that Lewis Carroll would stand up and applaud, as areas like the Mushroom Kingdom and the Labyrinth look like they might be painted skyboxes until you realise you can actually explore them. Cococucumber have mastered the art of contrast and colour, delivering environments that glow. And we do mean Beautiful with a capital B. ![]() This all takes the form of some simple hack-and-slashery against a beautiful backdrop. Her and your task is to explore the surrounding area to find three emblems which will unlock the queen’s gate and give you a shot at the crown. So the White Rabbit introduces her to a few friends to get a shield and sword, then effectively kicks her out the door. Luckily for Wonderland and Ravenlok, there is an ancient prophecy that mentions a girl with black hair who will defeat the queen. Following a spit and a polish, it drags her into Wonderland, where a tyrannical queen has holed up in a castle and left the rest of the world to rot. She’s barely settled in before she is exploring the barn, finding a Looking Glass that belonged to her late aunt (presumably Alice). Ravenlok is a young girl who moves to a small ranch with her family. Think of it as a Return to Oz-style revisit. This is absolutely not a one-to-one adaptation of the novel. Then Tweedledum and Tweedledee or the White Rabbit would turn up, and we’d get a wee reminder of where we were. It’s layered on so thinly that we often forgot we were playing a Wonderland game. You can expect jabberwockies, caterpillars and Cheshire Cats out the wazoo. ![]() Most developers, when they decide to set their game in Wonderland, lay the IP on thick. They’re used sparingly a few LEGO bricks in a more fully realised world. Even then, Ravenlok feels like a game that’s tip-toeing away from voxel art. Although we would say ‘trilogy’ is using a pretty loose definition, as the only thing that truly connects them is the use of voxels. They’ve arrived with Ravenlok, which is a lot of things: it’s an Alice in Wonderland game, an Xbox exclusive, a Game Pass day-one addition, and the third in a trilogy with Echo Generation and Riverbond. ![]()
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