Aerannis

잠오는 듯한 주인공의 눈이 내눈을 닮아.. 끄고 한숨잤다

Literally the worst game I've ever played. 9/10 - IBN

I have put in 9 1/2 hours into this game and just wow. I didn't expect quite the high level of quality I got. So a quick breakdown of [h1] Positives [/h1] -A pretty deep well thought out story -Very high quality Pixel art -The game runs really well -Pretty imaginative and original boss designs with their own mechanics etc. -Surprisingly deep Stealth gameplay and mechanics -Pretty great soundtrack [h1] Negatives [/h1] -No cloud save (at least it's not listed) -The controls can sometimes be finicky especially when the game needs you to be in just the right spot for certain actions to automatically happen, Allowing a manual options to for example go into crawling position by holding a certain button could have helped this (but it's only in a few spots it becomes a problem) -It would be nice to have a visual display of the controls in the options menu to show the default bindings. [h1]Overall[/h1] Very much worth the price tag and much more. Quality and content wise you're getting a lot of value compared to what you'd expect for the really low price.

Aerannis is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This shovelware platformer has at least had some effort put into it, it's not just a copy+paste of a platformer template from GameMaker Studio or Construct 2, but all that means is a lot of work went into a poor game concept for an old, dead format, when they could have saved a lot of time and done what most amateur developers do and copy + paste a template. Anyway this one has a metroidvania style and some kind of cyberpunk/cthulu theme, but this is all lost in the craptastic technical execution. Controls are clunky and restrained, somewhat unresponsive feeling, so that's a killer even if you can look past the glaring technical defects. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Aerannis is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ THE SOUNDTRACK IS AMAZING. The game didn't give me the best first impression, you're thrown in a strange area with some chars talking nonsense, your jump is floaty, you can throw a candy with no obvious effect and there's a weird "gesture" button (that we learn later it's actually a grab) but the music alone was enough to keep me going. The controls are not bad on controller once you learn what they do, the floaty jump is not an issue, the only bad thing is the item selection, you have to open the item tab and change the weapon with the dpad but your character still moves while the tab is open making it horrible when you need to make a change mid-fight. Why not just cycle through the items with a press of the button? There's only 3 of them. There's also a bug related to the item selection, if you reached a checkpoint with one item selected, change it later and die, the game will show the last item you used as equipped, but it's actually the item you had equipped when you reached the checkpoint the first time. You'll have to change your item manually every time you respawn, i got a few game overs in stealth missions thanks to this bug. The gameplay is decent, the action plataforming and stealth both work but it's nothing amazing, what kept me going is the weird plot and the AMAZING soundtrack. The plot i'm not sure if it was good or a bunch of nonsense, but i do know i had a lot of fun watching it unfold.

Nice 16bit graphics, nice puzzles, interesting story inside...

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