With the 5th Anniversary even now closed out, I wanted to take a moment to share some random shots and comments on the various activities.
I didn’t spend as much time in the game doing things as I feel like I should have, but also, it was a bit chaotic, which kind of feels like a regular problem for some of these events. I did not realize until last minute that the portals took you to the special gallery areas. I think for the most part, I managed to catch everything at least once. There were the two wireframe galleries, a sort of fancy dancing area on top of the Office zone, a giant video screen viewing area, and regular events in the Aviary itself.
Probably the most interesting but was the two gallery areas. One in Isle of Dawn and one in the Forest. You explored through each zone viewing commentary and images. The neat part was that both had a modified display so everything was a sort of wireframe look.
There was a special cape you could buy that would allow you to return to these zones later. I considered it but decided not to get the cape.
The Isle of Dawn zone was a sort of, history of ThatGameCompany and the lead up of decisions to creating Sky: Children of the Light.
The Forest zone was the same idea, except it was a behind-the-scenes look at the history of Sky.
The Dance zone was neat but I don’t socialize enough to have really taken advantage of the area. This was where the vendor for the limited cosmetics was located though so I went there pretty regularly. The cosmetics were, ok, I doubt I use most of them. The nest decor was the better stuff overall, there was a cool Disco Ball thing for some heart currency.
The cooler thing from the Dance zone was that they had all of the previous special capes available for use so anyone could access the various special zones. I got to visit a few areas for the first and maybe only time. I did not revisit the Aurora Concert using the Aurora Wings nor did I visit the Nine Colored Deer.
I did visit the others. First was the Little Prince Moon. This season happened before I played Sky at all, and had some nice looking items I missed. This includes a cape that would allow you to visit a small area inspired by the story. It’s a small planet, like in the story, which has a small biplane. Several Sky Kids can sit on the plane and eventually, it launches and flies around past various other views and things to see.
The second, and one I might eventually buy except I don’t own a Switch, is the Nintendo Area. Accessible via a warp pipe prop. The neat part of this zone is that it is locked to a 2D view, like a Mario game. The zone actually serves as a home hub with portals to each of the places in Sky similar to Home and Aviary. There is also a little underground area that is designed like a mini Mario level with moving platforms and coin blocks that spit fireworks and butterflies.
Back on other actual anniversary activities, one was a schedule of videos from the designers in a large viewing area. I kind of watched a few of these but personally, I feel just watching a YouTube video would be a better format for this.
Lastly there were a bunch of activities in Home, some group games, occasionally giant Oreo dogs would take over, and a fireworks display.
