{"id":16568,"date":"2017-06-21T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:08:28","slug":"seasons-after-fall-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/seasons-after-fall-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasons After Fall (PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A spirit sets out to save a forest and solve a mystery in the process, and possesses a young, curious fox so they can find four animal guardians.\u00a0 Each guardian is in charge of a season, and once you find them, you\u2019ll gain a special fragment that\u2019ll allow you to control the seasons at will.\u00a0 Using this power, you\u2019ll switch seasons to open paths and bypass obstacles in this 2-D plaforming jumping puzzler.\u00a0 Seasons After Fall is available to download on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you\u2019ll just control the spirit and can fly around.\u00a0 But most of the time, you\u2019ll be inside the fox.\u00a0 As the fox, you can run and jump.\u00a0 Press another button to bark, which can get certain creatures\u2019 attention so they\u2019ll run away from you, or activate guardian spirit fragments to change the seasons.\u00a0 You see, when you first get a new fragment, you won\u2019t be able to use it right away.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to guide it back to the sanctuary, but you can bark at it to use its powers.\u00a0 Once you have gathered enough seasons, you will be able to switch to them at will by pressing the R trigger button to bring up a menu.<\/p>\n

Changing the seasons will help you open paths that you couldn\u2019t reach before.\u00a0 Some of these puzzles make sense.\u00a0 Like changing to spring so the rain can raise water levels, or turning it winter so you can walk on frozen lakes.\u00a0 But some puzzles defy logic.\u00a0 Like making sure it\u2019s winter so you can step on a plant\u2019s roots so it spits out a giant snowball.\u00a0 Wait\u2026what?!<\/p>\n

But the logic-defying puzzles aren\u2019t the only problem in the game.\u00a0 Goals and objectives, and the ways to solve some of the puzzles, are often very unclear and vague.\u00a0 And you do an awful lot of backtracking.\u00a0 In fact, that\u2019s most of what you do.\u00a0 And with the lack of any enemies, it can get kind of dull.\u00a0 But the graphics are beautiful and the sounds are relaxing.\u00a0 So if you like puzzle platformers, you may want to give this a try anyway.<\/p>\n

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Nothing too violent here.\u00a0 You can chase these bugs with sponges on their back to water, and then change it to winter and freeze them, and the expanding water makes it look like the bug explodes.\u00a0 And at one point in the game, it looks like the fox dies and you control its spirit.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may need help with the tougher puzzles and jumps, though.\u00a0 Seasons After Fall is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A spirit sets out to save a forest and solve a mystery in the process, and possesses a young, curious fox so they can find four animal guardians.\u00a0 Each guardian is in charge of a season, and once you find them, you\u2019ll gain a special fragment that\u2019ll allow you to control the seasons at will.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16570,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions\/16570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}