Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, the beautiful trying musical journey primarily based on Tove Jansson’s traditional sequence of kids’s tales, lastly has a launched date and shall be launching for Swap and PC through Steam on Tuesday, seventh March.
Melody of Moominvalley sees gamers slipping into the outsized inexperienced hat of the wanderer Snufkin, as he harnesses the facility of music – and his trusty harmonica – to revive nature after the Park Keeper and his minions construct hideous parks throughout Moominvalley.
“As Snufkin you’ll distract law enforcement officials, pull out indicators, and knock over misplaced statues,” explains Norweigian developer Hyper Video games, “as you vigorously attempt to restore nature and the inhabitants’ residence whereas placing an finish to the industrious Park Keeper’s plans.”
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley | Accessible March seventh | Pre-Order Accessible!
All that performs out within the type of a “healthful” journey through which gamers discover Melody of Moominvalley’s fantastically drawn open-world locales, chatting to its charming solid of characters – every with tales to inform and quests to finish – and doing a spot of musical and environmental puzzling (with a little bit of stealth thrown in) alongside the best way.
It is light stuff, then, and Eurogamer’s Robert Purchese reasonably appreciated what he noticed of Melody of Mooinvalley final 12 months. “We watch Snufkin lazing by a tent within the snow,” he wrote, “and fishing in a frozen lake, as if nothing else issues on this planet. Then we watch him stroll slowly again within the spring to see his moomin buddy… All whereas the band Sigur Rós strums gently in accompaniment, and as smooth panels of idyllic countryside surroundings slide by. It’s kind of like Snufkin’s mission, I suppose, the other of what life has develop into for many people now – cluttered, smoggy, heavy. It is mild and ethereal and easy. It is a good place to be.”
And if that appeals, Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley will value round £18 (with 10 % off till launch day) when it launches for Steam and Swap on seventh March.
