So, right this moment, I’m sharing my first impressions of Aka… I wanna say… however these are literally my girlfriend’s first impressions – and he or she actually appreciated the demo, so I needed to showcase what she as somebody who doesn’t actually play video games needed to say in regards to the recreation.

If you wanna give Aka a strive your self, you possibly can try the demo over right here on Steam! While you’re at it, present it to your non-gamer associates and/or take into account giving it a wishlist!

She came to visit this weekend and provided that I needed to go to college right this moment, I made a decision to provide her free reign over my “chill” dynamic assortment on Steam. Aka simply type of caught her consideration proper there.

Apart from Cozy Grove and ACNH, Ms Magi doesn’t actually have a lot expertise with video video games.

Her library primarily consists of some Daedelic PnC video games, some Mario video games, Wii Kart, Sims 4, and the 2 aforementioned titles.

Thus, I figured it’d be fairly fascinating to get her viewpoint on issues and provided that I haven’t actually talked about Aka but regardless of having performed the demo at this yr’s Gamescom, I’m trying ahead to showcasing this title now!

Aka is a calming Life Sim developed by Namra Games that’s set to launch in 2022 on PC and Switch.

It’s a recreation set in a calming, open world the place you play as a crimson panda named Aka who’s coming back from conflict, lastly able to by no means slay a foe once more; on their return they’re then tasked with scattering the ashes of a pal who lately fell within the forenamed conflict.

Ms Magi’s first impressions of this recreation had been that it’s very cute with many fairly colors – however regardless of how cute it seemingly is… it’s additionally considerably unhappy.

Overall, although, it’s a fairly enjoyable expertise although with many fascinating characters – lots of whom are new however welcoming to the protagonist.

The conflict occurred and it’s over now… however we’re now able to rebuild what we misplaced, maintain dragon infants, and get better… Is this a recreation about loss? Not certain. After all, Ms Magi solely was in a position to play for 4 in-game days.

In these 4 in-game days, nevertheless, she was in a position to disarm a couple of traps, study extra about somebody Aka left behind prior to now, and restore a bicycle. It’s slightly unhappy however total fairly the gorgeous recreation… and a fairly enjoyable title.

Thom, one of many characters one meets early on, additionally alluded to a backyard being current close by. The recreation’s retailer web page additionally mentions building and gardening being a part of the core gameplay loop. Nice!

While she’s performed a couple of video games on this type of area of interest the place you maintain quests and simply have a comfortable time, Ms Magi struggled slightly bit with the controls. Coming from a Nintendo background, there’s clearly the totally different button scheme on the XBOX controller we had been utilizing… however then there’s additionally the truth that the keyboard buttons are a bit oddly positioned and fairly complicated. The use of a gamepad might be supposed/really useful – it’s a sentiment I share as effectively.

On high of that, Ms Magi discovered that the stock house is kind of restricted, the world is kind of huge and overwhelming… and if there’s a map, it’s not apparent sufficient for her to have discovered it. I personally additionally didn’t see one so… that’d be nice to have most likely?

She was extremely amazed at the truth that a rope bridge moved slightly within the recreation when she stepped on it.

There is lots of consideration to element current in all of the nooks and crannies, one thing I discovered extremely beautiful as effectively on the Gamescom demo. There are cute crabs, and fascinating characters, and you may work together with the world in lots of methods.

My higher half appreciated the way in which you possibly can soar off ledges and end up in utterly new areas. She completely liked it you could simply return to sleep once you really feel prefer it or you could enter the bath (sizzling towel included) and simply calm down.

Overall, Ms Magi can be fairly thrilled about this title – primarily as soon as it’s out on the Switch (largely since her laptop computer’s fairly previous). Personally, I additionally actually appreciated what I noticed at this yr’s Gamescom, particularly provided that among the darker implications are reasonably surprising within the setting of a cute recreation like this (oh, no, the dragons…)!

If you wanna try the sport’s demo for your self, you are able to do so over right here on Steam! Please additionally take into account giving Aka a observe or wishlisting it as that helps the builders an awesome deal – and it’s free to take action!

This publish was first revealed on Indiecator by Dan Indiecator aka MagiWasTaken. If you want what you see right here and need to see extra, you possibly can verify me out on Twitch and YouTube as effectively.