"Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up." --Leonardo Da Vinci
Title Screen
Cloudtrail Island is a relaxing game of exploration created by a small team of people known as Wing It Games.
You play as Wendy, a young lady who, it seems, is moving to
Cloudtrail Island from Obscondia. The world of Cloudtrail is a
world of disconnected floating islands that require some form of
flight to travel between them. Wendy does this using a glider, and
there are also these large almost blimp like airships that travel
between the islands.
I really love the
concept of this game, the disconnected sky islands, with the air
travel and a view of endless blue skies. When I was younger, I
played a game called Skies of Arcadia that filled me with such a
sense of wonder. It had a similar concept, you had an airship and you
traveled between floating islands that were different towns and
cultural representations. There was a lot more to it, but the idea of
living in the skies is similar.
Ah, the age old fetch quests! Bring it on!
The controls for
this game are not stellar. The movements feel floaty, you get caught
on the terrain when walking sometimes (especially bridges) and Wendy
will jump into the hair when she hits a bump. To use the glider,
you hit space twice, but in the platforming sections Wendy would whip
out her glider when I was just trying to jump, which caused issues
and got a little frustrating. The gliding was considerably smoother and I had fewer issues.
The graphics style
of the game is really cute and the music is nice as well. I didn’t
seem to run into a lot of characters, but it might have been a result
of the day/night cycle and I just wasn’t getting there at the right
time to see them. The characters that I ran into seemed charming, if
a bit generic. Also, I wish there was a house for me. I kept trying
to go into houses but couldn’t find one that I could enter. I feel
like the game was trying to go for a relaxing Animal Crossing vibe,
but I felt like it needed more to get there, and a house would have
added to that.
There is a large
variety of items to collect in the game, and you would use them for
fetch quests I imagine. There was a shop set up on the main islands,
and he said he was a shop but I didn't get any options to buy or sell so it
seemed pointless.
Flying is admittedly fun, though.
Overall, there is a
decent amount of space to explore, the graphics are cute, and it is
fun to soar around through the air. I love the idea of this game, and
I feel like with some extra work and tweaking to the design and
execution, it could really be a fantastic game to spend time in. As
it is right now, it’s still worth a play to experience soaring
through the air and to have a relaxing jaunt around the islands. You can
download the game for free from Itch.io HERE.
There was a
surprising lack of fencing for living so high in the air. I would be
concerned about losing my children or pets off of the edge. Do you
think you would enjoy living in the sky on a floating island? Would
you want to live in a community like the Cloudtrail Island, or off on
your own little hunk of floating rock? Let me know what you think in
the comments and I will see you all next time. Until then, friends,
happy gaming!
I'm worried about this cow. Are they okay?
