Zorya: The Celestial Sisters im Test - ein Couch-Koop

Zorya: The Celestial Sisters is about two sisters: the sun and her little sister, the moon. After the two goddesses were worshiped for a long time, people preferably preferred the sun, the sun. Her sister Aysu violated that so much that she continued to go back and finally disappeared from her home planet. The consequence of these people felt very fast. From this point, there was no night anymore. The once so beautiful planet lost its gloss from earlier despite permanent sunlight.

• Table of contents
• The most important thing at all
• push and roast
• Control and other inconvenience
• Fun on several platforms
• My opinion

For a long time after that, Aysu would like to return to Solveig to balance the world. But first she lacks the necessary force to attack this trip. To regain this, she needs fragments from a crystal. And so our puzzle adventure begins in which we have to help the sisters to find the crystal pieces and thus restore Aysus strength. Although the story is presented cute, it is the puzzles that are the focus in a puzzle game. We play Zorya completely in splits screen mode. While Aysu is controllable for a player as a cute, owl-like essence on the ground, the other takes over the sun Solveig Am, which stands in the sky.

Table of contents

1. 1The most important at all
2. 2 thrusts and roast
3. 3steuer and other inconvenience
4. 4 fun on multiple platforms

The most important thing at all

These shadows must use Aysu to get to the crystal splinters at the end of each level. There are also mechanisms such as lifts, doors and moving platforms that are activated by switches. In order to activate this, either Aysu has to put on the right points or aimed with a strong sunbeam on it. Among the various, ever-serious puzzles regularly come new mechanisms that bring variety into the different levels.

push and roast

Aysu has the useful ability to push the opponents away. However, she must be careful not to get into the dangerous sunbeams myself. With the help of Solveig we can then roast our enemies in the sun and put out of battles. For larger adversaries, however, only the escape helps. Luckily, smaller doors are scattered in the complete game world through which we escaped our opponents.

But shakes and roast only fun, if the overall picture is right. The musical accompaniment of the game is harmonious and soothing, for example. Even the sounds of the characters that do not speak, but gently communicate and almost mythical communicate with each other, perfectly matches the style of the game.

Control and other inconvenience

So as soon as we walk a narrow path, it is sometimes coincidence if we master a passage or burn in the sun. Of course, that's especially frustrating, if we are at the end of a long chapter and for that reason, must start completely from scratch.

While the camera of Aysu can be released free and without major problems, we play Solveig from the bird's eye view. Although we can freely move about the card, which ensures a better overview, but sometimes the control is very sudden and impractical.

This also has a simple reason: As Solveig is our powerful sunbeam in the center, but logically can only be in sunny territories. Let's try to look at a shadow area more closely, the sunbeam jumps to the next sinning soup and changed the perspective complete. Here more fine adjustment would definitely have been needed.

Fun on several platforms

As already said, the interaction of the two characters in Zorya is essential. Conveniently, the game offers some features that support that. It's enough if a person has the title, a friend can easily get online or just in local splits screen mode. A crossSplay function even connects PC and switch players with each other. Despite some weaknesses, Zorya convinces us: The Celestial Sisters with well-implemented features, a cute story and a chic look.

My opinion

Vonrebecca Herrmann Author

A beautiful puzzle adventure for relaxed couch co-op even

I am a big fan of mysterious games. That's why I could not take it to test Zorya. I was somewhat confused in the beginning because I had expected that one plays the two goddesses as persons and not a person as a sun is standing in the sky. But that was a good thing! It has supplied a new gaming experience for me, where I did not really want to stop playing. From a certain point, the puzzles were also very tricky. Nevertheless, I rarely had the feeling of really tightening. Frustrated just came up when I had to start the long chapters for repeated times from the beginning. Especially stupid naturally, if the reason for failure was in the spongy control and not on its own errors.

Zorya: The Celestial Sisters has been available since 8 February 2022 for the PC and for the Nintendo Switch. As so often lately you can not buy the socket for the PC via Steam, but only via Epic Games Store. Versions for the PlayStation and Xbox consoles are at least not yet announced.

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