Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm Review (ChubbiChibbai)
This game is a breath of fresh air.
The franchise leans heavily into its influences the main one being the original zelda games and manages to capture their charm incredibly well while at the same time being its own thing.
Oceanhorn 2 offers some significantly updated visuals and a much more immersive 3rd person camera position and really feels like a way bigger and better game as a result.
Everything about this oozes charm. The music, the color palate, the character, creature and environment design. Its all really well done and is quite wonderful to play.
In a flood of overly gritty and realistic titles that more often than not try to be punishing for the sake of it, it feels fresh to play something that is so care free and charming. The puzzles will tickle your brain at best. The enemy encounters are fun and enjoyable without making you smash your controller and the world is interesting enough to want to explore.
Its very much a cozy game wrapped into a gentle RPG experience and i'm quite satisfied with what they have done here and glad that we finally get to play this on PC.
The game runs flawlessly for me on both my high end PC and on the steam deck.
The one criticism i have is that the cloud saves also carry over your settings / config so you will need to manually adjust settings each time you play on a different machine. It's a very easy mistake to rectify for the developers so lets hope they do that because the ability to play across multiple devices is really a huge part of modern gaming for many people.