Wéko The Mask Gatherer is such an awesome action game! A throwback to games like Ocarina of Time. It has no missable achievements. Try to save up to 3k souls early on. Completion takes around 15 hours.



Approximate amount of time to 100%: 15h
Estimated achievement difficulty: 6/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: Yes, this guide shows how to get a lot of the achievements
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: Not really, having 3k souls at one point can be a bit grindy, but if you wait on buying the higher-level upgrades, it is quite easily done
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty settings
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No
Wéko The Mask Gatherer is such an awesome game! It threw me right back into memory lane, back when I was a kid, playing games like Zelda: Ocarina of Time. In this game you play as Weko, you don’t know about your past, but people keep saying or questioning if they don’t know you already. However, something weird is going on in this world and you have to retrieve 7 masks that inflict the people who are under the influence of the mask to one of the 7 sins.
Before I started playing Wéko The Mask Gatherer, I was a bit scared because it has the “souls-like” tag on Steam. And I’m not a souls-like girl! However, the game still drew me in and I’m glad I dived in, as I had such a lovely time playing this game! For the most part, it isn’t that difficult, really think back to Ocarina of time and you know what kind of difficulty to expect from this game. (Sorry, I haven’t played any of the newer Zelda games after “Twilight Princess” so no idea how it is compared to those.)
What made me have such a wonderful time is that the main story was not complicated and I always knew which way to go. Furthermore, there were a lot of side quests as well that gave the world a feeling of being lived in. So many have their struggle and different quest types. I loved finding the animals in each city that were running around and needed to be caught. That part reminded me somewhat of Slime Rancher.
Another great thing is the amount of masks you’ll collect and special abilities. It is nice that the game changes the mechanics just a little in each new area and how you can make those abilities even stronger if you go out of your way a little and complete other objectives.
What I also loved is the amount of teleportation/save options this game gives you. There will always be a teleportation point nearby. Which makes running around and returning to earlier areas so nice and easy.
The only bad thing I can say about Wéko The Mask Gatherer is that it doesn’t have a pause button at the moment. While playing through the game I noticed it but it didn’t bother me. The fights weren’t long and it was quite easy to stay out of trouble while idling if you are mindful about it. However there is an arena challenge in the game, there I ran into problems with this. In there, it meant that if my phone rang or the doorbell or a cat jumped in front of my computer screen, I couldn’t pause so that meant I lost that run and had to start all over again. However, I’m glad to report that in a future patch, there will be a pause button added later on because of the switch port. (Which is also great news, as this game feels perfect for the switch!)
The achievements in Wéko The Mask Gatherer are great! None of them is missable which felt awesome. No worries about missing out on something! This helps so so much with just feeling free to jump into a game and enjoy the journey without having to worry about missables. There is an achievement for having 3k souls at one time. This can be done easily in the post-game with the arena but if you don’t want to grind, I recommend just waiting a bit with buying the higher-level health and stamina upgrades till you get this achievement.
The hardest achievement to unlock will be the one for completing the arena. I wrote in the overview above that completion takes around 15 hours. This is an estimation, some people who are good at blocking/rolling/dodging gameplay might have a breeze with this part and finish it in a shorter amount of time, but I suck at it and it took me 20h in total to complete this game. I think 7 of those were spent on that arena section and I came so close to rage quit. However, it was just the last achievement and I really wanted to 100% this gem. The tip I can give for this achievement is that the boomerang is your friend ^^.
I give Wéko The Mask Gatherer 4.5 out of 5 stars.
This review for Wéko The Mask Gatherer was written on 31 July 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 25 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.