It’s time to start a new video game.
You check your configs and prepare yourself to experience an all-new world.
You wait patiently, not knowing what to expect.
Your first introduction to Atina, a near-futuristic island city that wants you to believe it’s a modern utopia.
Are you familiar with the sensation?
I’ve only experienced it a handful of times, with some of my most beloved games.
Take a trip with me, and I’ll tell you all about it.
Your first introduction to Atina, a near-futuristic island city that wants you to believe it’s a modern utopia.
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There’s not a stone out of place.
This is Polly, before she is unceremoniously tossed into an epic conflict to decide the fate of not one, but two worlds.
The music in Harmony: The Fall of Reverie is often subtle, but it’s always impactful.
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie’s simple visuals don’t stop it from looking incredible.
A woman returns home after many years away after learning that her estranged mother has disappeared.
Bliss is the first Aspiration you’ll meet in Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, but certainly not the last.
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie takes place mostly in the island city of Atina in the near future.
Enter: Bliss, the incarnation of humanity’s joy, love, and childlike innocence.
The Aspirations are not gods but are rather physical manifestations of human concepts.
These cinematics instantly capture your full attention in motion, and I wish there were even more.
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie is ultimately about being human, and it’s a beautiful tale.
Both games share the same rock-solid foundation, but Citizen Sleeper was a near-perfect execution on top of it.
Up until then you are simply following the story without interfering, carried along as fate wills it.
This is Reverie, a nearly infinite realm where anything and everything can and does exist.(Image credit: Windows Central)
Now, that power is in your hands, as every choice is up to you.
So many outcomes and different paths inevitably means replaying some parts if you’re unsatisfied with the conclusion.
Unfortunately, you’re limited in how it’s possible for you to do that.
Glory certainly has the most dramatic introduction in Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, like you’d expect.(Image credit: Windows Central)
The Augural itself is imperfect, too.
This is one game where I feel an on-screen cursor would actually be helpful rather than detrimental.
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie unfortunately lacks in accessibility and localization departments.
The Heart of Reverie gives one Aspiration more influence over both realms, and the Oracle chooses which one.(Image credit: Windows Central)
Finally, localization is sorely lacking in Harmony: The Fall of Reverie.
Localization is difficult, but important.
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie Should you play it?
Egregore is the source of power for Reverie and the Aspirations, sourced from the dreams, desires, and choices of humanity.(Image credit: Windows Central)
You should play this if …
You should not play this if … Harmony: The Fall of Reverie is a very good game.
Again, these cinematics are breathtakingly gorgeous in every scene.(Image credit: Windows Central)
Another look at the maze that Chaos calls home.(Image credit: Windows Central)
Truth, the most knowledgeable and surefooted of the Aspirations, is an important ally.(Image credit: Windows Central)
The Augural in its early stages, with only a handful of choices to choose from.
Chaos is a charismatic menace, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Bliss’s private Sanctuary, a mighty egg-like fortress.
Chaos, the Aspiration of freedom and possibility, and their flame of creation.
