{"id":63797,"date":"2014-05-18T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63797"},"modified":"2014-05-18T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T12:54:53","slug":"weekend-child-of-light-review-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/63797-weekend-child-of-light-review-roundup","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Child of Light review roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Child of Light is the latest creation from the team that brought you Rayman Origins and Rayman Legend. The game follows a girl named Aurora, a child stolen from her home and given the quest to bring back the sun, the moon, and the stars &#8211; all of which have been captured by the Queen of the Night.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the aggregated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/playstation-4\/child-of-light\" target=\"_blank\">Metacritic<\/a> scores for the various platforms, below, and reviews from several international gaming publications to see what the critics thought of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#999999\"><strong>Platform<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#999999\"><strong>Metacritic Score<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">PlayStation 4<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">PlayStation 3<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Xbox 360<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Wii U<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">PC<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/review-child-of-light-273702.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">Destructoid<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 8.5\/10 (Xbox One)<\/h3>\n<p>Child of Light will satiate pretty much everyone but the most hardcore of RPG fans, and even then, they&#8217;ll find plenty of enjoyment. There are a few minor issues here and there that hold it back from instant-classic status that could be enhanced in a sequel or future work, but regardless, Child of Light is a noble effort from Ubisoft Montreal, and another win to put in the studio&#8217;s diverse portfolio.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2014-04-28-child-of-light-review\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a>\u00a08\/10 (PS4)<\/h3>\n<p>Child of Light stands as a wonderfully realised venture into unfamiliar territory for Ubisoft &#8211; and a welcome reminder that the industry&#8217;s major players still have the creative flair to push beyond the lucrative safe ground that they so often favour to create well-crafted, highly-polished gems such as this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z_DxgSX3TE4?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/4\/28\/5660322\/child-of-light-review-xbox-one-ps4-xbox-360-ps3\" target=\"_blank\">Polygon <\/a>&#8211; 6.5\/10 (PC)<\/h3>\n<p>I finished Aurora&#8217;s tale wanting more, wondering what might be there below the surface that Ubisoft Montreal is content to only scratch. That&#8217;s the problem with Child of Light, ultimately. It&#8217;s a beautiful, familiar trip evoking stories I&#8217;ve heard and places I&#8217;ve imagined before. But it&#8217;s all so ephemeral \u2014 less than a day after finishing it, I can already feel my memories of my time in Lemuria and the characters I met there drifting away.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/child-of-light-review\/1900-6415744\/\" target=\"_blank\">GameSpot<\/a> &#8211; 8\/10 (PS3)<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to heap praise on the combat because it&#8217;s so interesting and engaging, and it&#8217;s certainly a high point in this adventure. That&#8217;s not what makes Child of Light stand out, though. Rather, it&#8217;s how confident it is in its own feelings of woe. There are so few games willing to explore that dull ache that I became mesmerized by Aurora&#8217;s journey, even when I needed to step away from her plight while I regained my composure. Child of Light is a wonderfully realized, somber adventure, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier that such a game exists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64595\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Child-of-Light-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64595\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64595\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Child-of-Light-1-600x334.jpg\" alt=\"Child of Light\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Child-of-Light-1-600x334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Child-of-Light-1-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Child-of-Light-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Child of Light<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2014\/04\/29\/child-of-light-review\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 9.3\/10 (PS4)<\/h3>\n<p>The artwork on display is stunning, the combat is constantly engaging, and the characters openly defy genre convention. But perhaps the best thing I can say about Child of Light is that I was often unsure as to whether I was headed in the direction I was supposed to, and I never once cared. I just wanted to fly to every corner of the world, take it in, and smile.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/reviews\/child-of-light-review\/1900-638\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giant Bomb<\/a> &#8211; 3\/5 (PS4)<\/h3>\n<p>Child of Light is at once a thing of beauty and a minor tragedy. Here is a game that seeks to evoke the kind of wondrous storytelling you&#8217;d find in any childhood storybook. This is a playable fairy tale, replete with all the magical kingdoms, evil stepmothers, quirky adventurers, rhyming dialogue, and hand-drawn artwork that such a description would typically come along with. Yet despite having all the pieces seemingly in place, something about Child of Light remains pervasively off.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64441-gamer-girl-magazine-will-it-vibrate-your-control.html\">Gamer Girl magazine \u2013 will it vibrate your controller?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64381-north-koreas-leader-gets-his-own-video-game.html\">North Korea\u2019s leader gets his own video game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64391-xbox-one-without-kinect-coming-to-sa.html\">Cheaper Xbox One without Kinect coming to SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will this game be a ray of sunshine, or a a dark cloud that will rain on your parade?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":64593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11231,21,581],"class_list":["post-63797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-child-of-light","tag-headline","tag-review-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64591,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63797\/revisions\/64591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}