Blue fire takes place in the Lost land of Panumbra. The land was formed by six Gods who each mastered one element. They took an oath to protect the land from harms way. However one god, the strongest one,
liked the idea of power and got obsessed with it. Blinded by strength the god turned againts the others and was soon consumed by darkness,creating a thing known as the black shadow which threatened to destroy the world.
A war broke between the the five gods alongside the humans againts the Black shadow and it's shadow creatures that lasted thousands of years. All hope was lost, so the gods used up all of their power to form a floating
castle that would be hidden by the Shadow and protected by the gods with the power of blue fire. What left of humanity was also transfered in the castle. To show their gratitude, the humans created temples
in order to honor the gods. When the gods Age, the gave birth to a Queen. Her task was to use the Blue fire of the castle to hide it from the shadows. Three knights were also chosen, in order to guard her.
Everything seems to be going good, however, the shadows eventualy reached the castle. Penumbra began to be consumed and the darkness and soon it corrupted the knight and the queen. The queen ordered her knights to venture inside
the castle and slay the gods while she resides in th temple of gods. The knight did so and the gods of Fire, Ice and Wind had fallen. The remaining two, were still safe in their temples however the shadows
made it in their temple. In order to save the world, someone has to take down the knights and the queen. After all this, Penumbra was seemed to be doomed. However it manage to survive due to the remaining
knights who were guarding the gods. Till this day they still venture around fighting shadows while waiting for the next hero to rise.
This part of the story is given through direct dialogue with the NPCs and through the small book given with the physical release of the game. This is where the player comes in and gets to control Umbra.
A mysterius duel blade wielding warrior who seemed to be a creation of a scientist called Ikiros, who experimented on fusing blue fire with the darkness. The experiments were going for a while with plenty of failures.
This is known through the scientist notes,that can be found lying around in the first room, and by the numerous of bodies found lying around near the laboratory. Needless to mention they look like Umbra.
While venturing around, he meets Von, the knight who was guarding the fire. He explains the knight task, to free the world, and take on the void challenges in order to gain more power and
prove his skills. While moving around one of the gods, sensed the light energy emerging through Umbra, and used some of his remaining power to request his help. His temple is under attack from shadows and he is
in desperate need of help. The knight reaches the temple and fights his way to the gods resting place. Umbra fights of Gruh the temple's infected guardian and frees the god, who upon thanking him asks
the knight to help his friend within the water temple. The knight accepts his request and moves towards the Abandoned paths in order to find the water temple. After manuvering around the temple and
fight off various shadows, he reaches the infected guardian Croh. The guardian falls and the god got spared, however, he knows the fate of his fallen allies and so he requests that the knight should fight
the three Knights of the Queen. Unlike the last two temples, the Knights although they re residing within temples, they do not require the player to platform around in order to find their chamber. Instead in order to enter the temple,
the knight has to unlock the door. Von aproaches the knight yet again, and he explains how in order to open the ice temple or the wind temple, he has to do certain rituals. In order to reach the wind guardian
the knight has to find the doors with the switch behind them in order to light up four green flames. Two of them can be found in the Arcane tunnels, one in the abandoned path and 1 in the fire fall river. The Water temple
required the 4 soul vessels to be completed in order to open. These can be found in the fire keep, near the beggining, the second in the Abadoned path, the 3rd in Temple gardens and the last in the firefall river.
Interacting with the soul vessels will turn the game to black and white, with a certain sumber of souls spawning within the area. Once the player traces the spirit's path the vessel is filled. After succesfully doing so
Von appears again and hands the knight the fire Key in order to reach the last of the Queens Lords. Umbra defeats the knight and heads to the queen, as her gate is now accessible. The two
fight and Umbra 's alongside Panumbra's fate are on steak.
Umbra is souless being born from the combination of darkness and fire. This allows him to have powers and skills beyond the average human. Needless to say he gets plenty of extraodinary set of powers. The knight
moves around with L3, and jumps with X. The more a player holds X the higher the leap, and when proceed with the story he gains the ability to double jumb by repressing with X. If the player explores areas he can also
gain triple jump with yet another press of the X. Square is used for mellee attacks through his blades. Triangle is used for magic cast and circle for barrier. Perfect timing circle, parries the enemy allowing
for more damage to be dealt on the next strike. R2 is the ability of Umbra to Dash. Equiped with the right Spirit allows for double dash .Similar to jumping depending on how long the player holds down R2 the longer the dash,
and with a spirit equiped it can dash even further. L1 is the sprint ability and L2 is the enemy Lock. Holding down square after an attack whilst on land will charge a spinning attack, that can be released with the
second square. This ability does alot of damage but also raises Umbra higher. There's even two Spirits that increase the height given from spinning.Jumping on a wall will allow Umbra to wall run and even use the
walls to bounce from one side to another in order to climp up. The Up arrow will heal the knight. Healling items can be gathered by breaking pots and crates. Umbra carries three however, with the help of NPC quests hecan get up to 10.
The down arrow will activate camera mode and the left and right are used for emoting. Left is for quick access, which will use the emote use last.The right arrow will open the emte menu and the player can choose which
one they want to use. When Umbra dies, his soul containing all his money will remain in the area where he has fallen and the player has to go all the way back to where he was in order to collect them.
Collecting a soul will give back the currency the player had. Some areas have statues in honor of the queen. Umbra can interact with them in order to
rest and refil his life and healling items. When resting on a statue the player can save their progress, increase their mana, equip spirits to their spirit slots and fast travel to other statues.
If a player dies, they ll be spawn back to the last statue they ve rested.
The game's post game content can be found in the void challenges and from the side quests. The side quest are given to the player through interactions with other NPCs. The quests are mainly in the form of fetch something to
the certain NPC. Keep in mind some of the quests will have Umbra retrieve something, bring it back to the NPC and then revisit then in order for the task to be completed and for the itmes to be received. The side quesst mainly reward
the players with collectable items such as swords, tunics and spirits. Each of them have have a unique story, some very comedic while others too dark . The player can accept as many side quests as they wish and they can complete it
whenever they can.
There are 16 void challenges where the player has to use his skills and parkour abilities to move around in an area filled with spikes saws and an everending fall awaiting in case of a failure. In these areas the player has to
go from the starting point all the way to the finishing part. While manuvering around the player also has to collect 30 orbs and reach the top and interact with the statue in order to complete it. Completing a void task give the
player an extra heart point and when all of them are done, the hero will receive a silver tunic. The orbs gathered during each of the voids can be spent in ordder to purchase a new spirit slot for the charms. The NPC interested in them is the wizard.
The game has four types of collectables:
Overall this is a fun and challenging game.The game can 100% complete within 20 hours and the player can receive the platinum trophy and satisfaction on defeating the game. The level design of the game is amazing filled with plenty of parkour
challenges and amazing details.
Details can be found in the very first map, and more specifically the doors. Altough they re not accesible all of the doors but one have a description of what is behhind them, giving the player an idea of how the structure of the castle is.
The enemy variety for it's size is decent and their attacking patterns unique to their type. Further more each area has a Golden Duck easter egg. In platforming games, it is often that skillful players find ways to find locations that normal
people wouldn't look. In recent days, the developers spent time on their game and try to find these locations themselves and often leave a small gift. In games like Super Mario, the players receive a mountain of coins, in the doom Games (2021 & Eternal)
the player will find pixelised frames from the original games, in blue fire however the developes simpy put Golden ducks of various sizes. Some ducks have hitboxes while others Umbra simply goes through them. It is a challenge among the players to
find as many as they can. Some of the locations are, inside the library where the player first meets the spellcaster. Another one floating on the river behind the trees in forgotten paths. An enormous one is hidden inside the tunnels within
the first temple. Two medium size ones can be found in the temple of water,and the other one on top of the church in the Temple Gradens. The temples are fun to explore and have an amazing design making use of the entire of Umbra's manuvering
abilities, while the boss battles challenge the player in different ways where they have to combine platforming with and strategy .
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