Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan

This game is awesome. There is more to it than I thought, and I'm enjoying the learning curve so far. Music and art is really nice. Combat is fun. An underappreciated hidden gem on Steam.

I enjoyed the story, the setting and the artwork. The combat and platforming was good. It is what a good Avatar the Last Airbender game could look like. I encountered a few bugs which crashed my game or dropped the frame rate. However this was solved by reverting to an early save. If you are playing with the mouse and keyboard, it can be a bit fidgety with the movement controls (e.g. lining up to interact with an item or NPC).

I rather enjoyed this game. It certainly has flaws, but nothing that's too irritating and certainly nothing game-breaking. The game is like an anime. There's a deep story (which is sorta a more complex version of the first Black Panther movie) that questions morality and realizing there is never any easy or right answers. It has lots of action with a variety of power-ups and abilities. There's an interesting cast of characters, a ton of world-building and lore, and finally some truly fantastic cut scenes. You play as Enzo, who utilizes Aurion powers that give you different attacks and stat boosts. Eventually you can learn to fuse them to create probably around 20 different powers/abilities. By the end of the game you become an unstoppable beast with dozens of powers at hand to obliterate all who stand in your way. In addition, your wife, Erine can aid you in battle as well, whether to heal or attack. I had a lot of fun with it, and the story really gripped me. I really wish this were an anime. And there's just short of a billion achievements for people in to that.

I love this game. It has so much heart in it, from the graphics to the (stellar!) story and dialogue. Good music, and again, just a stunning tale that was told. You can tell there was a lot of love poured into the combat animations, too. Super impressed and would love to see more from these devs/their corner of the world. Some of the more critical details: Sometimes there were graphical artifacts, small gameplay issues, and performance would lower when having the game open for too long. Also keep in mind that the aesthetics and resolution are more reminiscent of 2000's PC games rather than modern graphics- you'll enjoy the game much more if you let it be itself and not expect it to look modern. For completionists, I believe some of the achievements are bugged; still, managed to get all but two (due to bugs). Regardless, as said before, I found this game worth playing and I'm glad it gets to tell its story.

Un des jeux les plus riches sur lequel j'ai posé mes yeux, rarement une thématique (La guerre), n'a été abordée avec autant de recul et de sagesse dans un jeu vidéo. L'absence totale de manichéisme au profit d'une réflexion profonde sur la nature de l'âme humaine est très rare sur un tel support. Une oeuvre intelligente et magnifiquement illustrée visuellement, bravo.

The game felt great overall but gets held back by some glitches and crashes. The music and story are amazing and it is always great to see an African fantasy setting in games. For the gameplay it felt serviceable. At first I tried playing the game like a Beat Em Up/ Character Action game and looked for heavy combos. But the game felt more like an RPG where you use skills, hit enemy weaknesses, and do basic crowd control. It felt stale at the beginning but once you get to the part where you can fuse your Legacies, that's when the gameplay and the story started to get interesting. The best strategy was to just charge your AP and spam special moves. This made the battles where you fight lots of enemies fun but the boss battles were more lacking. I ended up cheesing the final boss by just hitting him on wakeup with Pirogue Strike. The one negative point that holds the game back is just the bugs and crashing that happens while you play. If change audio like unplugging your headphones, all the audio except the music will stop playing forcing you to close the game it fix it. Sometimes the game will slow down to like 5fps and potentially crash. It happens if there are alot of enemies or when changing areas. In the first of the final battles where you fight the onslaught of enemies my game would either slow down or crash. It took me like 4 tries before I was able to get past that first area. Luckily the game has an good autosave but it is still annoying. The game also has some random glitches, most of them minor but the one I remember is in the underwater section in Jenere Lituba. When you beat the 3 mermaids, the game teleports you into the spinning axe, where you can't move/heal and end up dying. I was only able to get past it after mashing the pause button and finally getting out the way. These issues don't make the game unplayable but definitely lower the quality of the game. I liked that the story showcased African culture while tackling past and contemporary issues within a fantasy setting. I also like how the final battle wasn't a massive spectacle but fit into the setting of a much bigger conflict. While the game is great and above average on its own, the bugs can make it feel below average at times. Its a bit hard to recommend but if you want to play a African fantasy game its a solid option.

Want a shonen anime inspired game where people use head mounted bird jetpacks? Then check out this Cheapness affordable gaming review of Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan [Episode 89] https://youtu.be/0ICCI4yPZus Text Review: -The game has great African inspired architecture and style with a nice asymmetrical feel and somehow some of their weirder designs don't feel out of place (Remember bird jetpacks) but visually there are some issues such as edgy sprites when viewed from afar, limited animations (Especially during cutscenes) and while the powers look good, sometimes they can look like overlays -The music is good and unique with African instrumentation (It's rare that anything sounds too familiar but the something silly is happening track for levity is perhaps too silly and the main combat track has a repetitive quality in that sections play twice before moving on to the next and the whole thing loops noticeably at the end if the battle lasts that long but I didn't mind it too much as the game isn't that long) -Good, methodical combat (Arguably repetitive but once again the short length meant it doesn't outstay its welcome and the Steam page claims there's more you can tease from the combat system if you're better than I am) but you can easily get stunned or fall victim to a damage cascade but that's the price you pay for a loose feel that's actually a positive rather than negative. -You also don't have to grind and can unlock and level up a whole lot of legacies that offer 3 different mostly elemental attacks each which is a nice spice (If they are reskins to an extent) -The non-combat elements (Puzzles, platforming etc.) are decent but not amazing... they offer a change of pace and this game has one of the harder moral decisions in a video game I've had to deal with in a while (Bohiri's family) -Great world-building and mature story that doesn't just bend to sentimentality (The brisk pace, stilted feel and some heavy-handed writing may detract from the quality though but that is harsh) -The English localization also has its issues which can detract as well -Also, the game does have a general feeling of unrefinement Practical Concerns: -Great value (R1.77/ $0.17/ £0.13 per hour for me) -Kind of big (13.08 Gb) -Surprisingly hard to run on the warhorse