"Very Few Platformers Let You Hug A Yeti" - Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story Review
Riot Forge has been plenty busy with their creative expanded riffs on the heroes and culture of ’ lore. takes the wintry paired heroes into their own narrative platformer, with an all-ages adventurous journey through the snow-covered Freljord that explores some of the central motivations referenced in the characters’ bios.
Publisher Riot Forge’s previous releases have spanned multiple genres thus far, from turn-based RPG to metroidvania to rhythm game, and here, feels like a classic and straightforward character-focused 3D platformer, complete with the benefits and blunders most common to these types of games. There's strong story theme here regarding companionship, one which is relatively rarer to this genre, with Nunu a member of the Notai tribe — comparable to a kind of fantastical version of the Inuit people — and his buddy Willump a big and cuddly four-armed Yeti, possibly the last of his kind.
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The two journey and survive together, with Nunu most specifically searching for his lost mother after they were separated during a raid on their camp. Willump only communicates through gentle Chewbacca-like grunts which Nunu completely understands, but the latter is a nonstop chatterbox; some of the repetitive character barks in the game might grate particularly on those averse to feisty children voice performances, but both prove to be generally good company through the game’s 6-or-7-hour runtime.
Most of the time, players will be guiding the pair through light platforming and puzzles, with occasional breaks for a belly-slide on Willump’s back or a combat encounter. These brief bouts are arguably the weakest part of the game,
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