AeternoBlade

This game does not give off a great first impression, but it's actually a bit more complex and interesting than it at first may seem, both thematically and in terms of game play. I can see how this could be considered a niche title, since it's only somewhat a Metroidvania, and more of an action puzzle game. Basically, you play as a girl who can alter time with her constantly upgrading sword. This game makes a lot more sense if you consider the fact that was originally a DS game, which explains the overly simplistic combat and emphasis on completing each area section by section. Essentially, her town is burned down by a generic devil-looking villain and she has to seek revenge. That's pretty much it... or is it? The first playthrough of the game takes only about seven hours, as among the seven stages only about three of them take more than an hour to complete. The combat in this game is very simplistic. You can do sword swings and she has one Final Fantasy-style meteor attack. But there is a little bit more to it, at least in terms of tweaking your character. You collect yellow orbs that you can use to power her up like in Devil May Cry, and even though she doesn't level up, you…

This games gives a terrible first impression and honestly i would have dropped it after stage 1, but i wanted to give it a fair chance. It did get better and it was fun for a while, but near the end i felt like i was losing the motivation to keep playing. I was planning on beating it anyways since i'm close to the end, but after dying thanks to an oversight during a boss two times in a row i decided to drop it (i kill the boss, the game takes the control away from me not letting me move my character causing her to fall into some spikes and die while a cutscene plays). This was not the first time i was killed by an oversight, in stage 3 i got to a part where the game freezes and wants you to activate the time rewind, but i got to that part without MP so i couldn't activate it and since the game was frozen i couldn't get my MP back either so i decided to press reset, and then the reset BROKE the cutscene that played before the freeze and i had to close the game and do the whole section again. That aside the game is okay, it's not very pretty, the gamplay is decent, the music is not bad, but the story is awful, a bunch of things that happen can be easily stopped with time manipula…

AeternoBlade, developed and published by Corecell Technology Co., Ltd, is an ambitious action-platformer that attempts to blend fast-paced combat, light puzzle-solving, and a unique time manipulation mechanic into one cohesive adventure. It follows the story of Freyja, a warrior whose village is annihilated by a demonic warlord. Consumed by grief and vengeance, she gains possession of the AeternoBlade, a mysterious weapon capable of bending time. Armed with this power, she sets out to rewrite the past and change her fate. It’s a premise rich with potential, offering a mix of fantasy storytelling and the moral tension of altering destiny. While AeternoBlade doesn’t always live up to its grand ambition, it delivers a distinctive experience that combines retro sensibilities with intriguing mechanics. The first thing that stands out about AeternoBlade is its structure. It’s presented as a 2.5D side-scrolling adventure, taking cues from Metroidvania design but leaning more toward linear progression. Players explore a variety of environments—from ruined temples to shadowy forests and ancient fortresses—fighting enemies, collecting relics, and unlocking new abilities along the way. The c…

My motivation to beat this game dwindles the further I get into it... I'm not joking when I say that this game's best quality is that the opening cutscene has a similar artstyle to Drakengard... Other than that, the story, which isn't all too bad, is just uninteresting as it doesn't really progress at all after the 4th stage of the game... until you reach the final stage... at the very end of it.... I've ran through countless softlocks and frustrating bugs in every single stage of the game... And I felt like I kept encountering more the further that I progressed through the game. Gameplay wise, It's alright... cool time rewinding mechanic, but the game can be very frustrating... especially when a flying enemy decides to fly outside of the screen that it cannot return to, making you have to restart an entire forced encounter from enemy 1... Or getting hit under and/or outside of the map, instantly killing you, which also causes you to restart an entire forced encounter... It happens frequently and for me, MULTIPLE times in EVERY SINGLE STAGE. This game is not worth your money and going on the vengeful quest to defeat Beladim was DEFINITELY NOT worth my TIME. If you still want t…

i7-4770K GTX-1080 1440p 60+ fps Looks like a port, because it is a port. Graphics are really stiff, but that's nothing compared to the bad game. It needs grinding to upgrade stats and acquire moves which I just cheated the points because there's no way I would think wasting my time is actually fun. It's a bad game because there are a lot of moves to acquire, but there's only two that carried me through the game; which again, thankfully I didn't wasted time grinding for the points. Also, the game doesn't lead the player on where to go next. Potentially, the player would go through the map hunting for the next story trigger.

A fun game with a very interesting twist near the end of the game