Sadly, he doesn’t speak the same language as me.

It’s the little Zelda-like fox who could,Tunic!

And that, dear readers, is its wonderfully craftedinstruction booklet.

A cartoony drawing of Horace The Endless Bear, in a Santa hat and snuggled by/atop a fireplace, regarding three Christmas stockings hung above it. Each contains something from a different game that came out this year

Importantly, though, it’s not as ridiculously hard asElden Ringand its oeuvre of Soulslikes.

I mean, how can it, when you’re accompanied by such a chill,dreamy soundtrack?

Or, more accurately, it was when I actually found the bloody pages.

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Eventually, though, I reached a conundrum that I simply couldnt crack.

I was still fairly new to RPS back in March, and vid bud Liam was very new.

Im not great with new people, but I knew he was also playing Tunic for a video.

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Armed with that knowledge, I started firing questions into his virtual inbox.

Solving those puzzles might sound arduous, and honestly, they often were.

We had no idea what we were doing, but figuring it out together was an absolute treat.

A fox looks up at a fiery lupine statue in Tunic

Liam:I maintain that this is the best 2D Zelda game Nintendo never made.