Even in the opening cinematic he’s very self-pitying, self-absorbed, and strikes an almost wheedling tone when he suggests that maybe if Kalani gets him into the City of Light that she could possibly come too. Perhaps my difficulties getting into the backstory stems from the running commentary of the sidekick orb, who I found annoying right from the off. The tale is told well enough through the tableaus and there’s nothing wrong with the writing or voice acting in these sections, but for all of that I didn’t find myself personally connecting with it that much. Through piecing together the memory fragments, however, a complete narrative is woven of how Kalani witnessed the greatness of the Yanran elite being built on the suffering backs of their society’s poor, thrusting her into the middle of a great class struggle filled with both successes and failures. Oftentimes the ruins of ancient Yanran buildings – long since crumbled into decay and now little more than rough stone walls and foundations – are restored to their former grandeur, only to fade away again when the remembrance ends.īeing a wolf, Kalani is unable to tell her story directly and the orb only recalls scattered bits of his former life. These flashbacks are depicted as static tableaus, although in some instances the voices of characters within them can be heard as well. Once discovered, the press of a button is all it takes to activate a brief new cinematic.
Most of them are placed right in your path, so they rarely require any effort to locate. Memory fragments are visibly denoted by red glows on the ground that send up plumes of smoke into the sky. Viewing these piecemeal recollections causes the glowing red blockades to crack, and bursting through when sufficiently compromised shatters the barriers so the orb can continue to fly alongside you. To do so you will have to locate and watch Kalani’s memory fragments, which have been scattered throughout the environments. The goal is to break through all the barriers found in the game’s seven distinct chapters. Throughout the course of the adventure, you control Kalani as the orb follows along, floating through the sky. Mystical red barriers lie between him and the City of Light, and only through the help of an animal guide can these barriers be broken to allow him to pass. As the game opens, your nameless companion-to-be is roaming over hill and dale trying to find someone that can understand him. Upon death, those of true faith would go on in spirit to the City of Light, while unbelievers would find themselves exiled as orbs of light or else reincarnated as animals. Both she and her glowing ball sidekick were members of the Yanran (or Yanren or Yanrana depending on which cinematic you’re watching), an ancient culture that built vast stone temples and buildings. Prior to being a wolf, your character was a young woman named Kalani. Swapping controllable animals can be fun and there are some grand vistas to admire whether by land, air or water, but an absence of actual gameplay makes for a hollow journey in this third-person, over-the-shoulder 3D adventure.
Accompanied by a glowing ball / lost spirit sidekick trying to find his way to the afterlife, along the way the protagonist’s past is explored through discoverable memory fragments detailing a story of class conflict within a fictional ancient culture. The debut offering of Mooneye Studios, Lost Ember casts players in the form of a wolf with the ability to “soul wander” into other nearby animals, taking them over.
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