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If Sky: Children of the Light was a little more gloomy and surreal - After Us Quick Review
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PLAY IT OR SKIP IT?
Play it! After Us is a narrative-driven adventure game with beautiful visuals that explores a strange, abstract world of decay and death. If you’ve played Sky: Children of the Light, After Us will feel pretty familiar, but it offers a more surreal and abstract experience.
TIME PLAYED
I played After Us for four hours. I managed to get decently far, finding every dog constellation spirit in the first major area as well as the dog vessel itself. I got lost exploring a couple of times along the way, but I’m currently traversing across the world and making my way through the second area.
WHAT’S AWESOME
• Narrative. After Us’s story dives into a strange, abstract world where humans have gone extinct because of their gluttony and hatred. I played Gaia, the spirit of life, and embarked on a perilous adventure to save this corrupted world and the animal spirits trapped inside it. The well-written, emotional story is delivered through cutscenes. It took a little while for me to make sense of what was going on, but once I did, I felt fully immersed in Gaia’s adventure.
• Exploration. After Us allowed me to perform a variety of exciting actions, including running across walls, climbing giant boulders, and leaping across caverns. As someone that loves exploring in any game, I spent most of my time searching every nook and cranny while traversing the world. The massive world of After Us provided the perfect space for me to keep getting lost while letting my curiosity lead the way.
• Searching for spirits. Spirits are the primary collectible in After Us; I needed to find them and free them from their material bodies. Spirits are hidden all over the game’s world, hanging out on top of gigantic stone pillars or stuck under floating rocks. Finding these spirits was an exhilarating puzzle, and the challenge has ramped up at the perfect rate as I’ve progressed.
• Visuals. After Us has some of the most beautiful visuals I’ve ever seen in a game. Every area features its own unique and enchanting environment; some places gleam with radiance and other spots look miserable and gloomy. Not only do these visuals look stunning, but the ambiance of these different environments sets the mood throughout the game and helps guide the narrative in an immersive way.
WHAT SUCKS
• No keyboard and mouse support. After Us currently only supports controller play for the PC version of the game. Busting out my controller every time I wanted to play was only a minor annoyance, sure, but I wish the game had keyboard and mouse support built in from the start.
💬 Are you going to play After Us or will you pass on it? Let me know in the comments!
Comments
After Us - A Beautiful But Not So Subtle Story About A World Decimated By Human Impact
After us is great looking action platformer set in a surrealistic and apocalyptic world and also made by the same developer that created Arise: A Simple Story, a game that I love and has a special place in my heart. So you can imagine I was really looking forward to this game, but is it as good or maybe even better than their previous game? I'm sad to say this one really disappointed me, I appreciate it when games convey a message in a subtle way, but After Us is so in your face that it really missed the mark in my opinion and I was so put off by this that I was barely emotionally invested by the narrative to be honest.
Gaming with Joy1K2023-05-25
#MostVisuallyStunningGame
sky : children of light is a wholesome exploration game, enjoyed fully with friends.
the sceneries in this game have to be one of the most beautiful that i have ever seen in any video game.
the music also adds beauty to the whole experience. everything fits well : the sound effects, music, sceneries, color schemes, the characters, etc.
there are also seasonal quests available to be done in addition to the main quests. the quests mostly consist of following the memories of the old ancestors, and the rewards are often more emotes with special effects.
godisdrunk9112022-09-18
An Uplifting Open-World Game About Healing The World - Sky: Children of the Light Review
“Time waits for no one.”
That iconic quote from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time underlines the harsh reality of the inevitability of time passing us all. It’s also a quote that captures my feelings about Sky: Children of the Light, a visually stunning open-world social adventure game that had me wishing I could relive the first time I played it.
Developed by Thatgamecompany—the same team that made
Jay Hunter78K2022-09-10
View desktop siteTapTap looks better
on the app 
looks like the same thing but in hell
2023-05-30
Author likedWell Sky: Children of the light also have gloomy and surreal place and after us is pretty expensive so i pass
2023-10-16