There’s an amusing logic to how each realm operates. I don’t want to say too much about the six regions - the “what’s next?” anticipation factor is a big part of the game’s appeal - but Zoink does a good job of theming each world after its numerical, dice-based namesake. In this case, there was enough variety and intrigue to the worldbuilding that I was always wrapped up in my surroundings while also wondering what might be up next. With lesser pieces in play, Lost in Random‘s format of going through each of the six realms, in order, could easily grow stale. Yeah, there are wolf-people, a few small-handed weirdos straight out of Nightmare Before Christmas, and yeah, the grim reaper shows up at one point - but there’s also a leather-fleshed Shadowman with a creepy grin, a towering mayor who’s got a vile upside-down scarecrow growing out of his hat, and a dear old soothsayer who can “read” rugs. There are a lot of oddballs, and they’re a chatty bunch.Įven if you latch onto the inspirations here and there, overall, it doesn’t feel too derivative. But does she even need rescuing?Įven though I like Lost in Random‘s combat quite a bit (which I’ll delve into in-depth, because you’re bound to have questions), its greatest asset is its just-zany-enough world, lore, and characters. After all of the table setting, Lost in Random picks back up a year later, when Even follows a mysterious ghost, discovers a sentient die she calls Dicey, and embarks on a grand adventure to rescue her sister. Our protagonist, Even, and her sister, Odd, are residents of Onecroft - the dark and dirty bottom rung of Random.īut on her birthday, after rolling a six, Odd is shipped off to serve by the Queen’s side in her hush-hush palace. Some towns are definitely better than others. On a child’s twelfth birthday, the Queen rolls her magical die - the only one of its kind after the other dice were outlawed - and depending on the outcome, the kid is forced to live in one of the six realms. There are six different sequentially named realms, each with their own quirky ways and strange citizens who have settled into the not-exactly-ideal way of the world under her rule. The premise of this dice-slinging action-adventure game is that a sinister Queen rules over the kingdom of Random. In other words, this is a game that’s both twisted and lighthearted heavy when you stop and think about the big picture, but not overly high-stakes in the current moment. Instead, I’d point to the works of director Henry Selick in general: The Nightmare Before Christmas, sure, but particularly James and the Giant Peach and Coraline. If I had to sum up Lost in Random‘s whole vibe, I wouldn’t invoke you-know-who not necessarily.
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Lost in Random (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch) While I’m ultimately satisfied, I don’t want this to be a one-and-done deal. That said, I hope Lost in Random is just the start of something. I don’t have a strong sense of the studio’s DNA, where it’s been, and where it’s going. I had fun with A Way Out (and even more fun with It Takes Two).įor those of you who got a kick out of Fe - or any of Zoink’s other titles, including Flipping Death and Stick it to the Man! - there’s precedence here. I mean, I dug Unravel (especially its co-op sequel). I came into Lost in Random knowing surprisingly little about the game or its stop-motion-inspired dark-fairytale world, but I liked the look of it at a glance, and I feel like EA has a good thing going with its EA Originals line of games.
You don’t have to be into card games at all to dig this action-adventure fairytale
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