[Análisis] A Short Hike para Nintendo Switch – Nintenderos

The last Indie World Showcase brought with it the announcement of the arrival of A Short Hike to Nintendo’s hybrid console, an ideal bet to enjoy the autumn tranquility that this island gives off now that summer is ending.

Claire, open your eyes

You are a young bird that wakes up on a huge island to explore. Next to her refuge, by the fire, she is waiting for her …

No, not the old bearded man! But almost, as this game exudes the warmest part of Breath of the Wild.

Her aunt is waiting for her.

And it will tell you that to get mobile coverage you will have to climb to the top of that vast island. But the way to the highest peak will be an arduous task for an inexperienced bird like her who barely knows how to plan when she takes a little jump, who does not know the intricate terrain full of forks, high walls, hidden treasures and lost islands, who does not know the hundreds. of neighbors who populate the place and who will ask her constant commissions that take her away from her destination, always so far away.

Then you will see the light, when you acquire the key piece to function in that vertical forest: golden feathers. With them he will be able to fly, climb, and run. And the more you gather, the further you can go, the closer you can to … brrrrr … your wings are weak and as you go up the mountain the cold will freeze your feathers and you will not be able to beat them to continue climbing, and the summit that was approaching will be very far again again…

But when you finally manage to reach the top and look back, you will see the tiny island at your feet that you already know to the millimeter, with the few possible paths, which previously seemed thousands, that you have traveled to reach the point where you are, with all the chests open, with a handful of animals that she has met making life easier for them, and her aunt, happy that she has had fun on this journey of few hours, will be waiting for her next to her little house, by the fire , right where he left it when he left.

Recommended for …

… that you play at your own pace and take your time to explore an island full of little secrets on your way to the top.

Other titles it refers me to

• Among the mini-games of fishing and digging and the island full of animals, the most obvious reference is Animal Crossing, but the calm rhythm of life of the anthropomorphic animals and the adolescent protagonist make me think of Night in the Woods although that one had a much heavier plot and emotional load.
• A Short Hike has an artistic section of the most particular and is that even being three-dimensional it chooses to offer a pixel art aesthetic, but the level of this filter is adjustable and we can have from the roughest aesthetic to one that sweetly approaches Wind Waker.

A Short Hike can now be purchased at eShop of Nintendo Switch At a price of 6,99€ and has a download size of 311 MB.

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