The Legend of Ocarina

The Legend of Ocarina is a complete single-player action adventure in a hand-built green valley. The wind has stopped, the mill wheel is still and eight songs have been taken from the land. You play Rowan, a village youth with a sword, a shield and an old bell, on a road through eight chapters to the Silent Crown that holds the valley in silence. EIGHT CHAPTERS, EIGHT GUARDIANS Every road leads to a new region with its own colour, weather and music: Mosswake Grove, Windscar Heights, Ember Quarry, the Drowned Belfry, the Hushed Archive, Sunforge Sanctuary, Thornveil Citadel and the Heart of the Chime. Each chapter ends with a guardian: the Rootbound Stag, the Stormwing Roc, Kilnback, the Bellcrab, the Brass Scribe, the Helion Coil, the Veiled Marshal and, in three phases, the Still Regent. Each guardian has a weakness that only the right relic can open. FIVE RELIC TOOLS, TWO VERSES The Reverie Bell wakes sleeping seals and stuns what stands too close. The Wayfarer Bow hits distant targets with aim assist. Crackseeds blow open star-cracked seals and heavy armour. The Tidehook pulls Rowan to golden anchors and drags enemies off their feet. The Prism Shield blocks luminous bolts and guides a beam of light into lenses. Later the bell learns two verses, Hold and Reveal, that stop clockwork and expose what is hidden. 24 SEALS TO SOLVE Three seals guard every chapter. Ring chimes in order, move crates onto pressure plates, raise and lower the tide with a valve, hold a gear and hit its target before the window closes, carry light from a sunpool into a lens, reveal a hidden target and shoot it before it fades. One seal opens the deeper road, all three open the guardian's arena. COMBAT THAT READS A three-hit sword combo with a heavy follow-up, a shield that turns bolts, a roll with invincibility frames, a lock-on and a jump. Twelve enemy families, from thornlings and shellhoppers to briar archers, rust duelists and veil stalkers, each with a telegraphed wind-up. Springs refill your health, arrows, seeds and healing flasks and record a checkpoint. A VILLAGE WORTH RETURNING TO Hearthmere Haven grows as the songs come back. Return six keepsakes to Pip, Mira, Oren, Linn and Vale for six charms, buy the Dawnsteel Sword at the forge, and collect twelve heartglass fragments for more hearts. Finish the story and the valley stays open for everything you missed. MADE FOR THE COUCH AND THE DESK Full gamepad support with Xbox button prompts, keyboard and mouse with remappable keys, a 10-foot interface on Xbox, three save slots, automatic checkpoints and exportable saves. No online account, no purchases, no downloads: everything in the valley is built in code and ships in the package.