

Two of the elements that have an immediate impact the moment you start this game are naturally the visual art style and the music.

They are suddenly faced with a sick bird, and Aiko so desperate to find out why the bird is so sick, encourages her husband to open a portal for them to travel through to discover what is happening to their world. We watch as he joins his wife Aiko, a woman who is dearly in touch with the wildlife of their world and very much the focus on the Nameless Hero’s devotion and love. Inked: A Tale of Love places you the player, as the ‘Nameless Hero’, a Samurai Ronin type character who has reached the end of their fighting days, so much that the opening scene is this hero putting down his sword for the last time now that all the battles he faced are over. Those doodles would only live on the page, but what if those doodles were to come to life and tell an emotional story as well as fun puzzle solving experience? Well then you would have the delightful and rather lovely game in ‘Inked: A Tale of Love’.Īs I continue my journey into gaming on the Nintendo Switch, I have really started to rekindle my love of deceptively simple looking Indie titles, and this is certainly one I am adding to the “so pleased I have a Switch console’ list.

We have all at one time use a biro to doodle something when our mind wondered or work, school or just the phone call we are on happens to be a little on the dull side.
