The fabric monsters inhabit small camps (and later, several sprawling factories) across the islands, and if they spot me they try to tangle me up with weird tendrils of cloth. When it comes to combat, it's all about soul-jumping, though. I could reduce an entire camp of cloth monsters to ash in seconds without ever slowing down If that's not enough, I can also summon a raft at a dozen different docks to explore the ocean around the islands, take in the views, and stop occasionally to dive for pearls or visit some of the tiny islands scattered off the coast. It can be blissfully peaceful or a frantic improvisational scramble to navigate mountains, valleys, and gorges.

The island quickly becomes a playground for acrobatic travel, and combining all of Tchia's traversal options and soul powers is the most fun I've had exploring an open world for ages. She has a glider, useful for leaping off cliffs and then popping her chute to serenely drift the last few feet to safety, and she can buttslide down mountainsides at terrific speeds. Clamber to the top of a tree, rock it back and forth, and she can use it as a catapult to launch through the air. She can climb almost anything, from sheer cliff walls to the sides of office buildings to vertical metal pipelines, as long as her stamina holds out. Tchia is a kinetic and capable traveler even when she's not using magic. Infiltration and exfiltration are a snap when you can possess almost everything you can see. But there were some small rocks on the ground, so I jumped into one and rolled back out through the gap. The crab, unfortunately, had skittered away and vanished, and I thought for a moment I was now trapped in this little cave.

Once inside I exited the crab and opened a hidden chest.

I suddenly remembered I had a crab in my backpack, so I plucked it out, soul-jumped into it, and scuttled sideways through the opening. At one point while exploring I found a small opening in the side of a cliff, too small to fit through even when crouching. Soul searchingĪnd it's not just useful for travel, collecting items, and avoiding a fall. No need to worry about a safe landing when I can essentially teleport to the ground. Just before I hit the ground I threw my soul into a rock sitting in the grass I was plunging toward. Once I was climbing a cliff, ran out of stamina, and fell. I've been a deer that can thunder across the island much faster than any human, I've been dogs (they're useful to possess when I need to dig something up) and chickens (I can lay an egg, turn back into myself, and pop the egg in my backpack), and even a cow-you can make them poop out explosive turds, good for blowing things up. I can chain my soul-jumps, going from racing through the offshore waves toward the beach as a dolphin, then ejecting myself from the water and possessing a passing seagull to take flight before my feet hit the sand. The more I do it the more fun it becomes.

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