You didn’t know that Thor, Norse god of smacking things over the head with a mallet, was once a kid like you and me, did you? Well, Canadian developers Frima Studio are kicking your mythology professor directly in his tweed-attired booty by dropping the real history of the god that made it sort of okay for men to wear braids, as long as they couple it with a winged helmet.
Be advised: you will smack some noggin in Young Thor. In fact, you won’t do a hell of a lot else. You will also jump, to be fair. Mostly, though, you gotta kill stuff. Goblins, giants, some kinda weird, bird thingy, you gotta Hulk smash every scaly skinned bastard you see before he does the same to you. This sounds pretty hot, except when you learn that Young Thor only offers seven different kinds of enemies, and only about a dozen levels. It sounds even less hot when you realize that Thor’s abilities — the game has RPG-like leveling-up elements — are quickly outstripped by those of the enemies on later levels. This necessitates a lot of going back through early levels and grinding through the same bad guys over and over. Now me, I kinda like grinding. It gives me a sense of accomplishment. But it’s not for everybody.
