![]() ![]() Instead of random encounters, enemy engagements here can be avoided or instigated – for the most part – at a time of your choosing and sneaking up on your foes will see you ambush them, giving you a welcome stat boost in the combat encounter which follows. You'll make your way around sprawling dungeons, uncovering their intricate maps bit by bit as you carefully inch forwards, avoiding various environmental obstacles, solving puzzles and battling with the many beasties you'll encounter as you go. Traversal takes place on a grid-based system with only four directions of travel but with full control of the game's camera for engaging with your surroudings. In Operencia: The Stolen Sun you and your party move around dungeons and all other areas of the game world as a single unit from an entirely first person perspective. Gameplay here will be familiar to fans of the Bard's Tale series, in particular The Bard's Tale 4 which modernised the franchise's traditional old-school gameplay mechanics by introducing the much more freeform style of traversal and camera controls that you'll get to grips with here. Once you've managed to get the somewhat janky prologue out of the way you'll be briefly whisked through a character creation suite and then quickly plonked in the ruins of a sunken castle for some good-old fashioned dungeon-crawling action. Persevere through this very short sequence, however, make peace with the aforementioned negatives, and you'll be handsomely rewarded with a rich and satisfying dungeon crawler that strikes a sweet balance between engaging story, meaty combat, addictive treasure hunting and clever puzzles. Opening with a prologue that sees you assume control of King Attila and his wife Reka as they attempt to close a portal between their land and the underworld, things kick off here with a ten-minute introduction that highlights a few of this port's niggling technical issues, namely a slightly blurred image quality with regards to enemies during battle and a lack of motion controls that can make some puzzles a little finnicky to interact with. ![]() ![]() Zen Studios' Operencia: The Stolen Sun doesn't really get off to the brightest of starts on Nintendo Switch. ![]()
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