As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond. At your disposal is the mythical Blade of Ahrah, capable of turning its wielder into an unstoppable force of nature, and the blade’s diminutive guardian, Fidget.

Battle dozens of enemies at once with an easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master combat system, take on a variety of quests from friendly villagers, discover ancient secrets and powerful upgrades hidden throughout the massive, open world, and uncover the story of an ancient civilization on the brink of extinction as you fight to uncover your own past.

And most of all, Dust is a visual masterpiece, visit the all hand painted world and prepare to be impressed by the overall performance of this game. Not only the visuals are something to keep your eye on, it also has a very deep storyline and a fun way to fight.

When the story starts, you wake up to be introduced to your sword, Ahrah and shortly after to Fidget, your aid and guide in this story. It becomes clear you need to find out who you are and you are thrown into the game right away, head east to the next city and hope they know who you are.

Once you reach the city, it is clear there are not only platforming elements in this game, but also items that need to be bought or found, quests that need your attention and so much more. It feels like they made a 2D side-scrolling role-playing game at times, it is that deep into the lore of the RPG genre.

What I really loved, automatic acceptance of quests, it is a little of a gripe of mine in the RPG genre, when you need to agree to a quest. Dust does this just the way I like it, talk to them, automatically accept whichever task they ask of you. Whether you need to cross to the east and give things to someone or just making sure someone is alright, it is all there.

Fighting is fun too, the official promo said the battle system was hard to master, which is true. It does take a while to really get used to the enemies. Getting the timing right to stun a giant or be able to fly around or just to avoid an exploding bomb, it does not just come naturally, practice makes perfect and prevents you from dying quickly.

Save points all over the place will make sure you regularly save, again this is done automatically, which is really the way it should be done. Some even remend your missing health. This might make things a little easy at times, especially when you go defeat the first few enemies in a zone and then head back to reload, but that is the way it is.

Dust provides a serious bang for the buck and even a physical limited run release was made. I loved the game very much and I can recommend it to anyone.