Fall of Light: Darkest Edition was made by two-person team RuneHeads, and it?s quite obvious that they have been heavily influenced by games such as Ico and the Dark Souls series. Everything from enemy designs, the opening movie, and even the combat is similar. While imitation is often regarded as the sincerest form of flattery it?s unfortunate that Fall of Light just doesn?t hold up too well when compared to these well-loved games.
Things get off to an iffy start right from the beginning, with an opening cutscene that tries hard to be heavily atmospheric, but ends up failing thanks to its cliched story and slightly ropey voice acting. It?s all the usual stuff about twisted souls, and a fight between light and darkness.

Hidden Tales After a brief cutscene you?re left on your own to try to figure out what?s happening in the world and what your motivation is. The story isn?t handed to you on a plate, so you?ll have to actively search out little snippets of the game?s lore as you go. The overarching story does start to get more interesting as you dig deeper into it, but it?s a shame that the gameplay makes it such a slog to get to the more interesting bits.
You?ll be playing as an old warrior, called Nyx, who?s travelling with his daughter to try to reach a place in the world that still has sunlight. You?ll have to lead your daughter Aether through some dark and dangerous dungeons in order to get there, fighting through hordes of enemies as well as solving the occasional puz...