Child of Light

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 46
  3. Negative: 0 out of 46
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  1. Metro GameCentral
    Apr 28, 2014
    70
    A mostly successful experiment at turning one of the world’s biggest studios into an indie developer, with the end result being a charming love letter to the best of Japanese role-playing.
  2. CD-Action
    Jul 23, 2014
    60
    This game should end around the 6th hour – which is roughly the middle of the campaign – when artsy visuals and fairy tale charm concealing the rather shallow content cease to suffice and the originally relaxing pace starts to make you drowsy. [06/2014, p.52]
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    May 23, 2014
    60
    Battles rarely deliver on the promising setup and there's no sense of peril. [June 2014, p.82]
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  5. Giant Bomb
    May 7, 2014
    60
    As visually resplendent and periodically fun as Child of Light can be, it too often buckles under the weight of its own aspirations.
  6. Edge Magazine
    Apr 28, 2014
    50
    It’s a game that, for all the intricacy of its systems and the charm of its painterly world, feels oddly empty.

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#32 Best PS4 Game of 2014
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#34 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2014
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#35 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2014

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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 641 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 478 out of 641
  2. Mixed: 112 out of 641
  3. Negative: 51 out of 641
  1. Sonofalando
    Apr 29, 2014
    10
    I would advise to those who are thinking about getting this game to not listen to the negative nancies giving it poor ratings. They've beenI would advise to those who are thinking about getting this game to not listen to the negative nancies giving it poor ratings. They've been conditioned to put every game in this generation into a box and if it doesn't fit then it's not up to par with their standards.

    I can't remember the last time that I played a game that was actually art and wasn't just a button masher in the past year besides GTA 5 and The Last of Us.

    Besides Ni No Kuni this is also one of the few RPGs that's actually doing it right while Final Fantasy has lost it's shine since FFX.

    Personally, I have no problem with the minimalism of the game. In fact, I think minimalism is part of the direction its creators took and it's told like a child's fantasy story book with the pages coming to life. I guess being an older gamer has made it apparent to me that reviewers have become obsessed with having games crammed with massive amounts of content. The game is only $15.00, after all, and it also had a DLC option on the main menu which tells us that there will be more.

    Lastly, it is my opinion that this is the best RPG in the past few years to come out.    … Full Review »
  2. dlopatnikov
    Apr 30, 2014
    5
    Just three words. Boring... as... hell...
    As good as Ni No Kuni? Yeah… right…
    What did you expect? It’s only $14.99. Ni No Kuni is just    Just three words. Boring... as... hell...
    As good as Ni No Kuni? Yeah… right…
    What did you expect? It’s only $14.99.
    Ni No Kuni is just $19.99.    … Full Review »
  3. sd42
    May 16, 2014
    1
    My review is to send a message. This game was beautifully made and had a quite enjoyable combat system. The rhyming was annoying as hell, butMy review is to send a message. This game was beautifully made and had a quite enjoyable combat system. The rhyming was annoying as hell, but whatever, didn't detract from my experiences. I'm giving this an awful rating because of the save system. It is entirely auto save, which means you have no control over your saves. Which means that when it crashes and corrupts your game save, as it seems to do in a good 25% of cases, you're screwed. I put in 20 hours into this game only to have it corrupt at the very end of my game. Not a chance I'm going back through. Developers you really need to learn from this, I will adamantly refuse to buy anything else from these developers from now on, regardless of game, because this issue was blatant and obvious and shouldn't have been even a remote problem in the first place.

    If you want to buy the game anyway, it's your money. Just be warned that a huge percentage of people are being screwed over by the **** coding. (it also crashed often throughout.)    … Full Review »
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