Each Jotun has a different set of mechanics that change as their health bar goes down, and that health bar of theirs is pretty beefy. The boss fights themselves are creative and gorgeous. On the other hand, when so much of each world’s challenge is some kind of wrinkle in moving across the level, even the beautiful vistas start to wear thin. On one hand, that provides an additional layer of challenge, which these simple levels often lack. On top of that, the maps don’t mark where you’re located. But Thora’s movement is a little slow for the vast expanses she must travel across, making exploration tedious - especially in worlds whose great challenge is the difficulty of traversing them. You can search for the golden apple in each world that extends your health bar, you can look for the god statue that grants you divine power, or you can seek out healing at Mimir’s fountains. There are extra things to do in these worlds beside the big goal of finding a rune. In a snowbound realm, one freezing world is little more than a sheet of ice under which a giant serpent lurks, its malevolent shadow growing as it approaches the surface, thrusting its monstrous head through and scaring the pants off me each time. This is Jormungandr, Tom Hiddleston's son.
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For that alone, I’d go with PC over console edition. It’s hard to see all the charming little details of your character's movement and attacks when you’re sitting on the couch, a few feet away from the screen: on PC those details are much closer to your face. Weird holdovers like the 8-directional movement limitation help hammer in Jotun’s PC origins. When I pick up that controller, I’m subconsciously primed for a game that looks triple-A or is trying hard to fake it, not the lush, breathing, hand-drawn illustration of Jotun. Everything about the game is redolent of the best of indie PC gaming, yet here I am running around on my PS4. Jotun on consoles is a strange experience: not bad, just disconcerting. Even so, Jotun’s gameplay never quite manages to live up to its stunning visuals, and Valhalla mode does little to rectify that. Jotun: Valhalla Edition does nothing to compromise the integral appeal of the game: its lush graphics, incredible atmospherics, authenticity and the epic scale of Norse myth all remain intact. Jotun is a beautiful game, a fact which has been noted as far back as Jotun ’s successful 2014 Kickstarter.