Immortals Fenyx Rising
Dec 15, 2020
4 minutes
“Even by Ubisoft standards this is bloated, with more currencies than a bureau de change.”
Greek myths make a solid videogame template. They invented the fetch quest (Golden Fleece); the boss fight (Medusa); even the glowing weak spot (Achilles’ heel). It’s frankly amazing Kratos has been able to hog this territory for himself. Now along comes Fenyx, lighter on dismemberment than the angriest man on PlayStation, but equally keen to pillage the source material.
Here, it’s about a nobody – that’s you – helping divine somebodies. With the gods trapped in cartoonish forms, the quest splits between reliving their greatest hits and offering impromptu therapy to revive them. It’s an oddly spiky
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