![]() There is nothing here you won’t have seen before, but we didn’t mind as much as we thought we would. Some of these allow him to traverse to new areas of London and advance the plot while others give him new attack powers to protect himself. Along the way, he befriends ghosts who will give him new abilities. Scrooge jumps around the city on platforms, swinging his cane to damage both ghosts and the foot soldiers of the Malthus family who have been sent to squash unrest in the streets. It is up to Scrooge to stop him, with a little help from his ghost pals.Įbenezer and The Invisible World is as close to the Metroidvania formula as you can get without putting your character in a power suit on Planet Zebes and giving them a whip. Instead of discovering the joys of Christmas and humanity, Malthus was instead offered a glimpse of a device he would one day develop that would allow him to rid London of the undesirable commoners. Caspar Malthus, the head of a long line of wealthy industrialists with a deep-seated hatred for the poor and working class, was previously visited by the same Ghosts who changed Scrooge for the better. The plot unfolds on Christmas Eve, as should be expected considering the source material. It is a fun play on the original story we know so well and it immediately drew us in. His encounter with the Ghosts of Christmas left him able to see the souls of those who could not cast off their chains of misery and cruelty as he has, leaving him the only one capable of aiding them on their quest for peace. Set several years after the events of Dickens’ novel, Ebenezer and The Invisible World sees the miser-turned-saint as something of a bridge between the spirit and the material worlds. Ebenezer and the Invisible World makes the bold proposition that Scrooge would become a ghost-thrashing, high-jumping champion of the common people and we're here for it. The focus is firmly on how he becomes a changed man and not what he actually does with his newfound joy and Christmas spirit. ![]() Of the hundreds of versions of A Christmas Carol that we’re all bombarded with in the lead-up to the Holidays, very few give any thought to what comes after Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)
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