I really want to like this game. The graphics are simple, but pretty, and it seems to be telling an interesting story of the Iñupiat people (and information about them). I just can't recommend it because the controls weren't great and if you're not playing with two people, the AI of whoever you aren't controlling (Nuna or Fox) is beyond useless. It would get stuck far behind so I couldn't advance, run on ahead of me, suicide off ledges randomly, and sometimes lag so far behind that moving obstacles I had handily avoided would kill my AI-controlled companion and cause me to have to reload. Add in managing to glitch on ledges so my character would be stuck twitching mid-air, and characters randomly refusing to face the direction I was indicating, and it gets frustrating fast. The good news is the save points are incredibly frequent. The bad news is you will undoubtedly be using them even if you don't screw up anything yourself.

I threw in the towel after the third time climbing up several spirit ledges and platforms (controlled by Fox), alternating between the two characters to get both to the top, only to have the uncontrolled character dive all the way to the bottom - requiring me to start the whole process over again. Add to this the fact that when the characters got too far apart, the platforms by Nuna disappeared (causing her to drop), and it was just too frustrating to want to deal with. If you have more patience for this sort of bugginess, or a couch co-op friend handy, maybe you'd enjoy it more as it did otherwise seem quite charming.

I really want to like this game. The graphics are simple, but pretty, and it seems to be telling an interesting story of the Iñupiat people (and information about them). I just can't recommend it because the controls weren't great and if you're not playing with two people, the AI of whoever you aren't controlling (Nuna or Fox) is beyond useless. It would get stuck far behind so I couldn't advance, run on ahead of me, suicide off ledges randomly, and sometimes lag so far behind that moving obstacles I had handily avoided would kill my AI-controlled companion and cause me to have to reload. Add in managing to glitch on ledges so my character would be stuck twitching mid-air, and characters randomly refusing to face the direction I was indicating, and it gets frustrating fast. The good news is the save points are incredibly frequent. The bad news is you will undoubtedly be using them even if you don't screw up anything yourself. I threw in the towel after the third time climbing up several spirit ledges and platforms (controlled by Fox), alternating between the two characters to get both to the top, only to have the uncontrolled character dive all the way to the bottom - requiring me to start the whole process over again. Add to this the fact that when the characters got too far apart, the platforms by Nuna disappeared (causing her to drop), and it was just too frustrating to want to deal with. If you have more patience for this sort of bugginess, or a couch co-op friend handy, maybe you'd enjoy it more as it did otherwise seem quite charming.