You are paying $20 for a nine-year-old game. But here’s the kicker: it comes with the Golem’s Plight DLC included. That adds two hours of content that is actually harder than the main game. Child of Light on Switch is not the best RPG ever made. It is not even the best Ubisoft game ever made ( Rayman Legends holds that crown).
Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: Turn-based RPG / Platformer Playtime: ~11 hours child of light review switch
But here’s the twist the screenshots don't tell you: It’s also a . You are paying $20 for a nine-year-old game
After you finish Tears of the Kingdom and your brain is fried from fusing rocks to sticks, or after Persona 5 Royal makes you dream in calendar dates, pick this up. It is a short, sad, hopeful poem about a dead mother who fights the darkness with a sword and a firefly. Child of Light on Switch is not the best RPG ever made
Child of Light floats like a butterfly and stings like a gentle, rhyming bee. Buy it on sale, play it in bed, and let the watercolors wash over you.
It dares to ask: What if a fantasy epic was just… beautiful?