Written By: Patrick Orquia
Title: Eternal Edge
Developer: Righteous Weasel Games
Publisher: Righteous Weasel Games
Genre: activity adventure
Number of Players: 4
Release Date: 12 Apr 2018
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Price: $20.00
Eternal Edge is an activity adventure game rattling similar to the Legend of Zelda games, peculiarly the most recent Breath of the Wild inwards price of the opened upwards basis gameplay. No, this game is nowhere close equally polished equally Nintendo’s 2017 Game of the Year powerhouse. Perhaps calling this game “similar” to Breath of the Wild is simply overselling it. Maybe it’s to a greater extent than similar to the rattling foremost similar Zelda game, solely similar a shot it has 3D graphics in addition to a much wider open-world map.
The game is close Cross, a immature fighter nether the tutelage of the eponymous Edge, an older, wiser, much to a greater extent than capable fighter. Spoiler alert, Edge dies at the foremost of the game, but non earlier telling the immature Cross to follow his path to greatness. Cross, vowing to create so, embarks on an epic bespeak along amongst his iii trusted warrior friends to costless iv chained-up fortresses to weaken the eventual finally foe of the game, the Skeleton King aka the Lord of the Dead. It’s upwards to you, the player, to guide Cross in addition to his friends across the broad basis of Little Kingdom, fighting foes in addition to levelling upwards in addition to customizing your grapheme amongst a broad multifariousness of weapons, gears, in addition to magical spells.
The premise of the game is a chip cliché, but it is inwards the visuals complemented rattling good yesteryear its gameplay where this game actually shines. The game utilizes a retro-styled pixelized fine art style. Such is unremarkably seen inwards indie games these days, but this fourth dimension around, it’s inwards 3D. The fine art manner really pops in addition to looks actually amazing. It looks similar playing amongst cutesy pocket-size toys, but they are fighting roughshod enemies, approximately would gladly one-shot kill Cross if he’s dumb plenty to create out them underleveled. Yep, this game may hold off adorable AF, but it is nevertheless an activity adventure game through in addition to through, in addition to yous volition either kill the enemies or live killed.
Various monsters are scattered along the vast opened upwards field, in addition to if yous desire to own got a fighting conduct chances conquering the fortresses in addition to the mini-dungeons, yous own got to grind your agency to the top. These monsters drib diverse loots, such equally weapons in addition to gears, in addition to of course, quills, the game’s coins. You volition besides run into treasure boxes that incorporate fifty-fifty to a greater extent than equipment in addition to money, in addition to fifty-fifty magical spells. So aside from the usual melee weapons, yous tin besides create out the baddies from afar using these spells. It’s upwards to yous how yous desire to fight, the game volition allow yous to customize your grapheme depending on your preference. Weapons in addition to spells tin live mapped to buttons of your ain choosing, hence it’s actually upwards to yous on how to brand the game equally convenient for yous equally possible.
Your grapheme “level up” yesteryear getting improve equipment than what yous currently own got (yes, similar to BotW). You besides acquire spells in addition to other skills that yous tin acquire from treasure boxes or monster drops, hence grinding is actually the principal chore on this game. You tin besides purchase equipment in addition to consumable items at sellers close relieve points, hence yous improve pass those hard-earned cash to gear upwards for your adjacent fight.
So, plenty of the skillful stuff. Let’s beak close the bad.
As skillful equally this game looks, it besides suffers from approximately rattling serious flaws. The biggest 1 are the rattling long loading times, peculiarly during the starting upwards of the game. It could accept upwards to iii minutes simply to charge the game. That would live fine, if the game would no longer own got long charge times piece at play. But no, loading times would simply popular upwards fifty-fifty piece yous are simply traversing the map, resulting to approximately major framerate drops. And if yous are grinding, yous improve promise non to die, because reloading the game later on yous conk besides takes a long time. Even exiting dungeons besides effect to long charge fourth dimension that would in all likelihood brand yous regret fifty-fifty going inwards them at all. And to add together to a greater extent than insult to injury, the game lack autosaving on the overworld, hence if yous die, yous non solely own got to hold off for a long time, yous besides lose a lot of progress. You tin relieve on specified relieve points, fortunately, but solely there. So if yous are unsure if yous volition last fighting to a greater extent than enemies later on miraculously surviving a mini-dungeon, yous improve walk a chip dorsum in addition to relieve first, lest yous lose all those sweet, sugariness loots.
Overall, Eternal Edge is a game that looks actually skillful on the outside, but has approximately rattling serious problems inside. I promise that the developers free a patch to address the long charge times in addition to framerate drops. Until then, I can’t actually recommend this game, equally the bad outweighs the skillful oftentimes inwards the game. But, if yous nevertheless desire to endeavor it, non minding the flaws at all, hence this game volition sure as shooting live such a skillful 1 to play. If yous are a fan of Zelda in addition to other activity adventure/RPG games, minus the long charge times, this 1 is for you.
REPLAY VALUE: medium
PROS
- Excellent 8-bit retro pixelized 3D fine art style, grapheme design, marking design, in addition to overall aesthetic
- The 8-bit chiptune soundtrack sounds quite good
- Has high multifariousness of weapons, gears, in addition to magical spell to customize your grapheme with
- Big, open-world map that has a broad assortment of environment, characters to interact with, in addition to monsters to battle with
- Local co-op play is supported
- Switch video clip recording is supported, surprisingly
CONS
- Very long loading times, peculiarly when yous foremost kick upwards the game (could accept upwards to iii minutes to load)
- Frequent loading piece on the field
- Lots of framerate drops
- You tin solely relieve at specific relieve points in addition to later on specific scenarios, in that place is no autosaving piece walking on the field
- Some rattling high levelled monsters tin live seen fifty-fifty at the starting areas of the map, which could hinder progress in addition to volition forcefulness yous to grind a lot
- The background music abruptly ends from fourth dimension to time
RATING: 3/5 rough-around-the-edges
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