Wings of Ashes 1.0

Wings of Ashes is a third person action adventure game where you play as young girl who is trained in sword skills in search of a missing friend. As you trudge through the snow and more snow falls you will come across sword wielding enemies and have to learn to fight, crouch and stealth attack to avoid the swordsmen and archers.

Whilst the animation of the protagonist is very nicely done as is the background with the falling snow, the enemies almost seem out of place in that they only appear as black shadow like figures, also the background does look good but it’s also a bit bare and desolate and there’s not much going on except for the admittedly very pretty snow fall.

Wings of Ashes has a lot of promise but it seems a bit sparse at the moment, the fighting parts also seem a bit strained and the battles are bit clunky with your opponent backing off it can seem to take a very long time to get close enough to him again to strike a blow and then when you do the whole process starts all over again meaning that the fights can be very long and drawn out.

There is definitely an intriguing adventure/stealth game to be born out of Wings of Ashes however it could do with a lot more time spent on it and more detail added along with working out the fight system and movement so that they are more fluid and exciting but as it’s free we can’t really complain too much.

You can download it here for free.