![]() ![]() The ball games themselves are called “rites” and hold a spiritual significance. But first of all, you should know that how I feel about Pyreball is not necessarily how I feel about Pyre. However, because so much of what makes the game interesting and worthy resides in the tale itself (and the demons and dogmen of the world) I’ll also be writing a little about that afterwards. PYRE BEST TALISMANS FREEI’m going to keep this part of the review as free from spoilers as possible. ![]() One I often wish didn’t have fantasy netball clinging to it. That goes double for the story of this band of exile-sinners, told through visual novel-style interjections and dialogue choices. The sport of Pyreball itself has caused me to curse and sigh many times, but I can’t accuse it of being uninventive. But you soon make new friends and, to earn your freedom, you start to compete in a quasi-religious tournament of orb-throwing and goal-scoring. This underworld is where you find yourself. Pyre is set in a world where literacy is banned and punishable by exile – banishment to a dangerous land called the Downside, cut off from the home realm of the Commonwealth. Then again, expectations seem increasingly useless when it comes to a studio such as this. A purgatorial fantasy sport is not the direction I expected Supergiant Games, creators of Bastion and Transistor, to go with their next game. ![]()
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