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The Son – -apkrig

Games based purely on sneaking have their extraordinary charm. Whether it’s Hitman, Thief, Dishonored, or Metal Gear, a stealthy move through a complicated and well-thought-out location can be more satisfying than having the same location headlong. In the adventure El Hijo – A Wild West Tale, unlike the above, you do not even have such an option. You are a little boy who can only rely on his own ingenuity. Murder is out of the question.

God forgives I do not

Murder is out of the question, even though the bandits turn your life upside down. Your home will burn you down on coal and your beloved mother will leave you in the care of terrifying monks as you flee. She sets out into the world on her own, judging by her expression for revenge. But she underestimated the boy’s fearlessness. He does not intend to slave in the monastery and, full of determination, follows in the footsteps of his only (perhaps living) relative.

Thus begins an adventurous journey, on which you sometimes escape the relentless clutches of monks, other times the bloody fangs of stray coyotes, a sandstorm or whistling bullets from bandit rifles. At first, you depend only on crouching behind obstacles and a completely impenetrable shadow, which is your best friend in front of relentless eyes.

Later, however, you will get more fun toys, which will help you deal with even the most stubborn guards. At any time, you can view areas where enemies can easily see you. But at such a moment, you are unable to move, so you still have to guess how far those treacherous monks and bandits will see. Therefore, it cannot be said that this “cheating” makes El Hijo an absolutely simple game.

On the other hand, your enemies are not the smartest. They routinely repeat a single prescribed task, patrol one route, and are completely lost in the shadows. And while this may sound like a weakness of the greatest proportions, it is not a reproach. It is precisely on this principle that the whole game is based, so it is a clearly defined puzzle in each individual room full of enemies.

Unexpected Journey

El Hijo is actually a really challenging game where there is no room for the slightest hesitation. Quite often, there are more ways to overcome the next guard, and the further you are in the game, the more complicated the locations will be, but the more ways to solve them.

While in the first levels you have to make do with stones and a slingshot capable of distracting attention, later you set up noisy toys, disappear in a cloud of smoke from dusty flowers, stun cowboys with rockets or hide right in front of them under a huge sombrero.

On a dangerous journey, you will experience memorable moments, whether it is a risky chase on the roofs of wagons, adrenaline “races” in mining trucks, creeping fields among coyotes, or the already mentioned desert storm, which easily takes the boy off the cliff.

Thanks to the unusual stylization and clear western palette of colors, it is a pleasure to look at the whole experience. At first he freezes the missing dubbing, but once you get used to the silent, as a result quite cute story, you may like this style as much as we do.

Not all gold…

But the story is not why you would finish El Hijo. It is not imaginative at all and serves purely as a backdrop for a strictly creepy game. And this discipline, that is, sneaking, is stable most of the time. However, sometimes you come across areas that are too light, sometimes too difficult, which unfortunately gives room for frustration.

And when it comes to frustration, you can sometimes experience real hell with mouse control. Aiming with a slingshot and other objects is incomprehensibly inaccurate. The cursor randomly snaps to anything that just occurs to him and to achieve the desired effect under pressure, when you have barely two seconds to disappear from sight, is usually a superhuman act followed by a reversal. There are still many scattered checkpoints…

El Hijo – A Wild West Tale is still a good canapé with which you can drive away hunger for stealth games. The mechanisms work most of the time, but nothing will surprise you and it is very likely that you will not even remember the boy’s adventure in a few months. But at the moment, when you will smoke from the head while thinking about the next procedure of locations full of enemies, you will have fun.

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