The Oldest Edda

The Oldest Edda is an interesting retro platformer inspired by Norse mythology. You play as Runar the bucktoothed who died in battle and has been chosen to be resurected in Niflheim, a world between life and death, to be send on a quest for Odin. The art style and voice acting is a bit goofy and the dev obviously went for the cartoony style. The biggest strength of the game is the huge variety of levels. Whether you are on a neckbraking course in a minecart, or tipping on mushrooms with reversed controls. That alone made me continue even after dying a hundred times. New mechanics are also introduced throughout the game. The bosses and the flappy bird inspired level showcase the biggest downside of the game. Its controls. They are clunky and oftentimes not as responsive as I wish they would be. Leading to a ton of frustrating deaths. Luckily, there is no real punishment for loosing all of your lives. You can just continue. Overall, I still think The Oldes Edda is a good game to kill a couple of hours. Especially, considering the low price.

The game is obviously made with love, in fact, is not a perfect game, but have dozens of differents mechanics, all levels have unique things, mechanics, details, dialogues, art is about make you have experience and feelings, and this hard game will do this, I can't wait for more games from this creator.

i canot believe this game is so good. mesmerizing graphics and atmosphere. very ADVENTURE feeling and creative. even the story is good! what an excellent surprise!!!! but sometimes very deeficult

I wish my friend would stop drunk buying me games but here we are. I do believe this game is good but I am on detox from autism. I am also playing on my laptop therefore I don't have the full keyboard nor controller therefore I can't pause the game since I am missing the enter key (not the one that I have of course). The game is about some viking guy but I am not sure since there were only two things in the Options menu which I used fully, that being the volume slider and changing the game to portuguese (Brazilian one). I am also pretty sure my friend who bought me this in one of his deliriums, dubbed the main character but I can't prove it. Maybe one day I am going to play and finish this game but I would like to play the Bad Rats first as the game is set in the same universe.