![]() ![]() Following them around the battlefield and riddling their wings with your bullets as you swerve to dodge an incoming explosion is pure action-packed fun. Locking onto your target is simple enough. It is ecstatic to manoeuvre around a battlefield ablaze with destruction and death. As you dash and swoop through the battlefield, bullets burst all around you, explosions blast you out of the sky, and lightning thrashes above you. The incredible music by Benedict Nichols crescendos from a serene melody to a bombastic cacophony of chanting and blood-pumping drums. Whenever the game does need to ramp up the tension, it does so beautifully. “Watching as legions of other Falconeers tear through one another across the skies adds to the immersion of the battle and raises the stakes and tension of every encounter.” There’s something to be said about the way developer Tomas Sala, captures the beauty and serenity of simply swooping through the air as the sea ebbs and flows beneath you. ![]() Rather, The Falconeer takes you on a gentle ride through its captivating world and characters. That’s not to say that there aren’t moments of sheer ecstasy scattered throughout. However, The Falconeer manages to avoid such a label thanks to its lackadaisical gameplay. If it were any other game, I’d argue that completing missions that are similar in both structure and narrative classifies it as repetitive. However, I’d hesitate to say that it makes The Falconeer: Warrior Edition a repetitive game. While there are certainly variations on the mission types, the general minute-to-minute gameplay feels mostly the same. They generally require you to venture to a certain point in the rather large world and fight a bunch of ne’er-do-wells. Missions don’t take all that long to complete. You’re dropped into the open world with a main quest to follow as well as a handful of side quests. The Falconeer: Warrior Edition has a relatively simple formula to it. ![]() In-game Screenshot (Handheld) “ The Falconeer: Warrior Edition takes you on a gentle ride through its captivating world and characters.” In fact, it goes far beyond that, and well exceeded my expectations. Fortunately, The Falconeer: Warrior Edition has incredibly intuitive controls. Namely, I was worried a game entirely focused on aerial combat would see me quitting out of frustration. Either way, I was a little apprehensive when approaching The Falconeer: Warrior Edition. Generally, I find aerial combat games to be a little unintuitive. In the rebooted Battlefront 2, I’d average around two kills per 30-minute match. In the original Battlefront 2, I often found myself crashing my X-Wing into the hull of my enemy’s ship. ![]()
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