Glittering Sword

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Summary

Glittering Sword is full with the spiritual references to these classical gaming brands, and it’s shiny and balanced graphical setting helps the player to dive into the memorable adventure. Best way to describe this game by phrase: «fantasy adventure set in a cozy world with Sokoban-style puzzles».


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Glittering Sword Reviews & Ratings

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Review by Xbox_Alive [user]
September 14, 2021

Glittering Sword starts with a very short sequence where your character, the hero, and his female lover are together when suddenly his belovedGlittering Sword starts with a very short sequence where your character, the hero, and his female lover are together when suddenly his beloved gets captured by an evil force. From this point on, it’s your task to rescue her. To do this, you’ll make your way through many levels filled with enemies, obstacles and puzzles. As you progress, no story content will be seen anymore and we see this as a missed opportunity. Glittering Sword resembles old classic action games that were available on platforms like the Game Boy, but with modern touch-ups, making them relevant for our current generation of games. The creatures, environment and obstacles all have a lot more details, while still retaining the arcade look of retro games. The screen is always quite filled with clutter, which adds a bit of life to what is happening during each level. While colorful, the palette used is fairly soft and subtle. The music in Glittering Sword is very calm and sounds quite nice. It has a certain familiar ring to it that we couldn’t place. Unfortunately, the game only has two different tunes; one for all the normal levels and one for the boss levels. When the tune reaches its end, it will just start over again in an endless loop, which can get quite annoying after some time. Combining this with a lot of deaths and suicides, because you made some mistakes, makes the annoyance even worse. Glittering Sword is an arcade action-adventure game where you, as the game’s hero, must find your way through levels filled with puzzles and enemies to eventually reach your beloved that has been captured by an evil force. The controls of Glittering Sword are fairly simple. You can swing your sword at your enemies and you can use a magic attack that shoots a ball in a straight line with a magic resource. In the first level, you’ll find your sword laying around behind some pink obstacles. Pink crystals are scattered around each level that will remove the pink obstacles when you’ve gathered them all, so you can continue to the next level. In many levels, you’ll see a vendor where you can buy potions for coins that are dropped by enemies and chests. The red potion will restore your life and the blue potion will restore your magic power. Glittering Sword is a classic action-adventure game where you need to rescue your beloved by crossing many levels filled with enemies, traps, and puzzles. The gameplay of this game is very simple, making it quite accessible for most people. The challenge in this game lies in finding your way through all the traps and puzzles without dying. The game doesn’t really feature story content, but the gameplay alone can keep you occupied for quite some time. If you like a game where you need to think before you act to get past a level full of traps and enemies and challenging puzzles, I’d definitely recommend this one as it will keep challenging you with an increasing difficulty and the price of admission is right on in ChilliDog style. So head on over to the Xbox games digital store and pick it up today.

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Review by TheXboxHub
February 16, 2021

Glittering Sword on Xbox is disappointing. It shouldn’t be expected to offer anything revolutionary to the genre, given its status as a homage to The Legend of Zelda. It should be expected to nail the fundamentals though. It doesn’t. The game never advances beyond the same simplistic puzzles and stale combat, and the only answer to scaling difficulty is throwing more projectiles and enemies at you in an attempt to slow you down.

Game Information
Release Date February 4, 2021
Publisher ChiliDog Interactive
Content Rated T (Teen)
Game Modes Single player
Genres Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Themes Action
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S