Dust: An Elysian Tail
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Dust: an Elysian Tale is an action role-playing game with metroidvania elements set in an imaginary world called Falana. Dust, the main character, with his sentient sword called Blade of Ahrah and guardian Fidget explores the “2D” side-scrolled environments. According to the storyline, Dust wakes up in the forest meadow and finds himself unconscious. Then, after meeting the sentient sword and its keeper, Dust decides to find the keys to his past. Players are offered to assume the role of Dust on his way through the world. Dust can upgrade his characteristics (health, magic, strength, and defense) by spending gained experience points. The gameplay also features metroidvania mechanics, so players have to progress within the game and upgrade Dust’s skills in order to achieve special goals hidden throughout Falana. During Dust’s travel through levels players are able to contact with other characters to trade or to get side quests.
System requirements for Xbox 360
System requirements for iOS
System requirements for PC
- OS: Windows Vista
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz or equivalent
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible video card with shader model 3.0 support
- Direct X®: 10, Windows Media Player
- Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
- Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers
- Input: Keyboard
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® 9600GT or ATI Radeon™ HD 5000+ or better
- Direct X®: 10, Windows Media Player
- Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
- Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers
- Input: Mouse and Keyboard or XInput-compatible Gamepad
System requirements for macOS
- OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8, 32/64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz or equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
- Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
- Input: Keyboard
- OS: Mountain Lion 10.8.5, 64-bit
- Processor: Quad Core CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ support
- Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
- Input: Mouse and Keyboard or Gamepad
System requirements for Linux
- OS: glibc 2.15+, 32/64-bit (S3TC NOT required)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz or equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
- Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
- Input: Keyboard
- OS: glibc 2.15+, 64-bit, S3TC texture support
- Processor: Quad Core CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ support
- Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
- Input: Mouse and Keyboard or Gamepad
System requirements for Nintendo Switch
System requirements for PlayStation 4
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Dust: An Elysian Tail reviews and comments
The artstyle is vibrant, combat is smooth and the voice acting is very well done.
Hard to believe only one person made this.
Basic story, functional, but nothing memorable.
Cons: the furry design will throw off some players. Some crafting interface is a bit lacking in the comparison options. The last unlocked material takes a lot of grinding and merchant restock waiting.
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Also, I couldn't bring myself to care about the story. Main antagonist motivations were never explained: while genocide is always bad, maybe he had his reasons? I mean, he wasn't the Senseless Evil type, some demon or an alien. At some point, the game even made an attempt to evoke some emotions for him, though it fell as flat as the rest of the story.
Cute characters, though.