It's not Rocket Science!

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So I’ve been playing a lot of Ender Lillies: Quietus of the Knights lately; it’s a fun little sidescroller or Metroidvania type of game that I happened across because the soundtrack for the game appeared in my music recommendations on YouTube. The cover art looked pretty and the name was intriguing so I hit play. I really enjoyed it! The game’s music was haunting, melodic, simple, somber, very… atmospheric! Eventually I happened to glance back at my go-to OST compilation video and caught a glimpse of the game play.

Side-scroller? Single player? Good enough for me!

So I went out on a whim knowing nothing else about the game, bought it for my Switch and have been playing it for about two weeks now!

Just like Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, this game hits that special place in my brain that is stupid excited for side-scrollers. I love the send of loneliness to this game which has inadvertently made me rather attached to the guardian spirits you can collect and add to your arsenal.

The plot is simple, in a post-apocalyptic kingdom you play as “Lilly” last of the white priestesses, guided by a single spirit, you roam your destroyed world curing “Blight” as you go, a zombie-like condition that has turned the land and its inhabitants into little more than mindless murder machines.

Along the way you can collect allied spirits once you’ve purified and rested their mindless, rampaging bodies, usually these are your mini-bosses and main bosses! Each gives you a different type of attack which makes for a fun means of puzzle solving with different combinations or builds. (Your starting spirit, Umbral Knight, for instance is a pretty basic with a decent long-reaching sword and your typical three button smash combo, your second spirit is also your first boss fight, Seigrid a warrior-sister type complete with habit and frock and large fuck-off morning star, she gives you both a spinning leap attack if used while mid air and makes a nice defense you can send out front on the ground to wail on encroaching blighted!)

The story is told through various little scraps you can find here and there which adds to an exploration element which I rather like in games like this, letters from blighted who never made it to their final destinations or keepsakes and talismans used by members of the clergy or local villagers in the cliff-side hamlet. Very…media res story telling haha!

It’s a fun game so far and I’m enjoying it immensely!