Songbringer Review

I find absolutely fascinating. It’s like the fragmented remains of a game, carefully discovered and pieced together as you play. A stunningly beautiful conflation of pixel graphics and intricately complex lighting effects, creating a fractured and intense look, presenting a combination of action RPG and rogue-ish exploration of a wonderfully detailed yet procedurally generated world. What you’re doing, why you’re doing it, how best to do it – that’s what I’m putting together the more I play. Here’s wot I think. The short of it is, you play a dude with a sword, and then an ever-growing collection of interesting weapons (not least the boomerang-like golden top hat you wear), accompanied by a floating orb being, trying to clear out screen after screen of interconnected locations filled with a huge variety of enemy types. But it’s not nearly as arcadey as that makes it sound – it’s a much more considered game, in many ways, asking you to meticulously clear an area to leave it safe, while searching for the few quests the barren world offers, and underground dungeons of far higher difficulty to clear out.

At the start you’re asked if you want to play a regular mode, or a permadeath mode, the latter being – I would venture – something for the hardest of cores. Because the regular mode does something more interesting with death – it resets all the cleared locations to be filled with enemies again.That’s hardly unique, but the way it plays out here offers something – I think – much more interesting than just starting again. You keep your progress, your gathered weapons, your count of diamonds used as currency in the peculiar totemic underground shops. But there’s a significant blow to having all the paths from one task to another refilled, and it’s something that becomes more impacting the further into the game you get. It offers a similar sense of importance to not failing in a particular moment as a rogue-like, but allows the game to better deploy its RPG story. Combat is a mixture of melee and ranged, and a frantic time in many screens, dependent upon the enemy type. What most gets me here is the complete indifference many of the enemies have to you, and yet their ability to do real damage.

There are some, like the hordes of leaping yellow bugs, that jump about at random and yet have the capacity to take chunks out of you when you’re clipped. There are others, like the ghastly glowing porcupine things that actively try to attack you. And there’s are others still, like the teeny little elephants, that just trundle about seemingly unaware of you, yet when trying to dispatch them, you’ll find that their unpredictable movements can make for a surprising challenge. Meanwhile many screens feature water, and water means the bobbing dragon beasties that throw green orbs directly toward you.Underground dungeons feature a much tougher range of enemies, including ghoulish humanoids with much more specific and dangerous attacks, or the absolutely hateful lizard bastards that get me nearly every time. And while dying in a dungeon only resets you to the entrance with its handy save, it still means you know everything you’d cleared up top will be repopulated. It makes taking on dungeons a real gamble, and there are many that have proven too tough for me with my current levels of health and attack abilities – I note them down to return to later.The map gradually fills in as you explore, marked with elusive symbols to remind you what is where. Green squares mean there’s something important to find over there, and oftentimes it can be a little labyrinthine in its layout, making exploration and survival key.

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Songbringer is quite simply brilliant. It scratches that dungeon crawler itch while you wait for the new Breath of the Wild content to land and it ticks every box while doing it. Songbringer boasts unique art, challenging yet fun gameplay, an interesting story and a kickass soundtrack what more could you want?

And I’m constantly having to remind myself that the map, as fantastic and specific as it seems to be, is a random generation based on a seed I created by typing in random letters. CJRPPW, should you wish to play the exact same game as me.I think it’s hard to underplay just how successfully the seeded world feels coherent and complete – something on which a lot of procedurally generated games can easily fall short. I began saying how wonderful the graphics are, but I want to repeat it. It’s very easy to sigh at the sight of pixel graphics at this point, because they’re in every other game. But here the design shines so damned brightly, not least thanks to lighting effects that deserve piles of awards.

But it’s also thanks to the incredible detail therein, the vivacity and life put into the incredible animations, the weather effects, and the enemy variety. Combine that with the uncomfortably brilliant music, and it exudes a deliberate and unsettling atmosphere that perfectly suits the tone.Oh, and leave the game on the title screen and it runs little demo versions, like games used to and still should. It’s just constantly splendid fun, ever-changing and interesting, with increasingly challenging dungeons to keep you wanting to improve. I love how it drips in its scant story in peculiar little cutscenes or flashbacks, how little moments of conversation are always exquisitely well written, sometimes oddly poetic.I’ve not finished it, because curses those lizard men are tough, so I can’t yet speak for length and conclusion, but the fact that I could just start a second game with a different seed and play it all through differently is enormously appealing. It’s not the deepest game, but it’s smart, ridiculously pretty, and has me completely hooked.Songbringer is out on September 1st for Windows, Mac and Linux,.

An indie title taking its inspiration from Zelda may not be the most unheard-of idea in the world, but there’s something about Songbringer and the way it revels in its ties to the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System original that’s exciting. By adding a sci-fi tone that is part psychedelic drug trip, part medieval fantasy adventure with procedurally generated dungeons and overworld - Songbringer presents a distinct take on a well-established formula.Make no mistake about it, in terms of structure this is classic The Legend of Zelda.

After your spaceship crashes on the surface of Songbringer’s strange but sort of familiar planet, the first cave you enter presents you with a sword. A space sword.

One of the first secondary skills you learn is a boomerang-ability that comes in the form of a top hat to throw around. That you can also wear. Dungeons are numbered sequentially, each providing new challenges, puzzles, and bosses to overcome with additional health rewards provided upon completion in the form of Dragon Teeth.

But, early on there’s also a sequence where after eating some strange cacti you enter a hallucinatory state that helps you progress a bit further into the game. Also, you can meditate to both recover health and, well, be at peace and open certain psychokinetically locked doors. It’s this strangeness, and bouts of weirdness, that adds a lot of charm to playing Songbringer.The very first Zelda also informs the visuals, which are drawn by larger than usual pixels. Filtered through modern hardware this results in a spectacular display of character and detail. Despite the simplistic presentation, Songbringer has an abundance of visual detail in the form of impressive animation and lighting. If you find yourself next to a riverbank and happen to slay a large worm-like creature, this is the sort of event that will trigger a large-scale pixel display of movement across the screen. Where pixels masquerading as insects dance and jump-around reacting to your movements.No doubt Songbringer is wonderful to look, but the oversized pixel can adversely affect timing and movement when surgical-like precision is called for.

As per the introduction, Songbringer is an indie title where a process called ‘seeding’ procedurally generates the overworld and dungeon layout whenever you start a new adventure. A nice modern feature that sounds great on paper, but if you were to go into Songbringer without that knowledge on hand you probably wouldn’t even notice. Which, is both a compliment that doesn’t sound like one and a mark against its overall replay-ability. Thanks to exploration and progression that is very Zelda-like, where getting stuck or confused is a rarity, Songbringer is exceptionally well designed.This might be due to scope of the game, and the relatively small dungeons to tackle, but everything feels like it was designed without the need for fancy algorithms.

Even though it has those too. Having started a second adventure just to get a picture of how different it all gets, it’s certainly impressive to see that there is indeed variety. But again, it’s all structured to flow like the very first Zelda which means you always start with that first sword cave, and end up fighting a large minotaur as the boss of the first dungeon. There’s also more to Songbringer than its Zelda-like packaging.

The sci-fi setting also adds a distinct flavour to the items and abilities at your disposal, with the added fun of combinations and multiple ways to approach certain set pieces and boss battles. And thanks to a robot sidekick, there’s also co-op. Fair warning though, before long Songbringer does get quite tough.Calling a game hard usually errs on the side of fact rather than opinion, and there’s no mistaking the spike in Songbringer’s difficulty after the first few dungeons. So, it’s worth mentioning if only just to list that as one of its undocumented features. And to highlight this aspect of the experience for those that tend to struggle with top down combat that requires a fair bit of skill.

In the end Songbringer is an exciting, if familiar, take on the old Zelda formula that for the most part plays as good as it looks.