Aeternum Vale

I’d say it’s definitely not for everyone. It has this retro feeling of deliberately not wanting to hold your hand. You have to figure things out for yourself. No waypoint markers etc, just the game world, it’s inhabitants, and you the Player trying to make sense of it. It is also a bit unfair at times and will probably make some casuals quite salty on some precision platforming. Personally, I love all this and I’m...

8 found this helpful, 2022-10-08

I have a hard time recommending the game in it's current state, the combat is janky, there's gamebreaking bugs, soft locks, and the placement of save points far and away from each other is just frustrating with the aforementioned combat and bugs.

6 found this helpful, 2022-10-08

There's really nothing going for this game. It feels like a devs first project (which it likely is). Basic platforms, block pushing puzzles. Screens are generic and completely uninteresting to me.

4 found this helpful, 2024-07-14

The art and music are so beautiful, and along with the atmosphere, it gives me a Studio Ghibli kind of feel. The storytelling is wonderful and poignant. There is a deep sense of meaning to it. It is well thought out. It’s not a straightforward map of a linear platformer game; it makes you go around the area to figure out how to progress. You have to obtain skills to further access other areas and must figure out the...