Basic Information
(Nintendo Switch version)
Jotun: Valhalla Edition was released on April 27, 2018 and is a single-player game. It is an action and adventure game. The publisher is Thunder Lotus Games. The supported game modes are TV mode, tabletop mode, or handheld mode. The size of the game file is 3.8 GB. The supported languages are English, French, Italian, Japanese, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish.
Game content
Jotun is a hand-drawn action exploration game set in a Norse mythology setting. In Jotun, you play as Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself before the gods in order to enter Valhalla. Explore the vast areas of the Norse purgatory and find runes to unleash the jotuns, the giant Norse elementals. Fight them using only your massive two-handed axe, the blessing of the gods, and your abilities.
Features
- Experience beautiful hand-drawn animation.
- Fight five epic jotuns, giant Nordic elementals.
- Explore nine expansive and mysterious levels filled with Viking mythology.
- Summon the powers bestowed upon you by the Viking gods.
- Test your skills in Valhalla mode, where wilder versions of the mighty Jotuns await.
Reviews
The game puts you in the hefty role of Thora, a Viking woman who hasn’t been having the best of times lately. She’s recently died, you see, and naturally she’s a little cranky about the unpleasantness. Worse, because it was considered an inglorious death – a storm sank her ship and she drowned – she hasn’t yet had a chance to enter Valhalla, a paradise for heroes who die in battle.
Thora, however, still has hope. When she awakens in the Norse version of Purgatory called Ginnungagap (the Void), she finds that if she can pass through each of her realms and defeat the Jotuns found in each, she will impress the gods enough to gain access to Valhalla anyway. The goal, then, is to travel from Ginnungagap (which functions as the main world) to five different regions, each of which contains several stages. After finding and activating a rune placed in each of these stages, you then face off against the giant Jotun from that region in a boss battle. If you defeat them all, you’ll be on your way to Valhalla.
This structure results in a slightly disjointed experience, though not necessarily a bad one. The two stages in each region tend to be fairly sparse, and with a few exceptions, encounters with enemies are basically a rarity. So most of these stages are instead spent exploring the environment and searching for the rune you need to unlock the boss fight.
