While there is a challenge element to it all, there wasn’t a puzzle or fighting sequence that I wasn’t able to overcome with relative ease. It’s very similar to the way players maintained their teams in Child of Light.

Making sure that Quill doesn’t get overwhelmed by dissuading her opponents and keeping her healed as the reader while also controlling her fighting maneuvers becomes a balancing act during some of the more intense combat areas. The VR perspective also allows players to peek behind corners or look over walls for hidden objects and adds a completely unique mechanic that wouldn’t work in a traditional game setting. In order to solve each area’s puzzles, players will do things like moves items in the environment or take control of enemies to use their skills. Players control both Quill as she jumps and slashes her way through the world and the essence of the reader. Gameplay is a mix of traditional platforming and the grab, push, pull, and turn mechanics of most VR games. It gives the whole thing a sense of a mother reading to a child or a teacher during storytime reading to a class. Most of the story is narrated by one woman who does little voice changes for each character. Honestly, the tale is nothing horribly new, but it’s told in a compelling manner.

He tells Quill to stay put, but after a visit from a persuasive fairy, she finds herself on a journey to save her grandfather and possibly her 'people'. When she shows her discovery to her grandfather he finds it to be a foreboding omen and sets off to fight an impending evil. When she finds a magical glass shard while exploring she becomes bonded to the reader.

Very quickly, you learn that the mice-folk that inhabit this world were driven from their castle and kingdom by a great evil.Īfter getting a brief history lesson, players meet the real hero of this tale, Quill, a young and impetuous mouse who’s lived her entire life in a forest village with her grandfather. Players take on the role of a nameless reader at a desk in a large library who has somehow become enthralled in the tale of Moss. Storywise, Moss is one part Neverending Story and one part Secret of Nimh with a small dash of the Mice of the Templar comic book thrown in for good measure.

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