Automaton Heart

If you like exploring strange worlds in search of mysterious objects, this is the game for you! Much like its predecessor Automaton Lung, Automaton Heart is a mysterious and enigmatic game. The world is huge, the characters and monsters are strange, and there is very little in the way of guidance for what you ought to do or where you ought to go. However, just like the previous game, I am enamored with it! As a returning player, the upgrades to the visuals are huge! The character models, the menu art, the pre-rendered videos, and the UI are all working together to enhance the atmosphere of the game. While these are by no means the most amazing visuals I've ever seen, they're doing a good job selling me on the world. The texture work especially is a big step up from where it was before! Travelling the overworld is a real treat as a returning player, since you might recognize some of the locations from the previous game. The world itself, though usually empty and lonely, does have a little more population to it. You can find various NPCs to buy and sell things with. Besides them, there are some statue-like beings that offer hints as to what you should be aiming for next. I've managed to stumble across all sorts of interesting places and can't wait to see what else I can find as I continue to play.

Automaton Heart is a once in a lifetime game, there's not much else like it. The game features an esoteric, transhumanist vibe, coupled with low-poly models and environments, and low resolution textures that together remind me of the game GunZ: The Duel. The game expanded on the bones of the first iteration, Automaton Lung, in a perfect way, taking it from what I would describe as a 3D Yume Nikki with robots, to an exploration based ARPG with even more robots! The character designs for the playable three are amazing, with Uma and Alma being complete opposites of each other, which really shows in their inverted colors, and Misha feeling like a motherly caretaker. Sometimes the game provides a very eerie atmosphere, with the feeling of something strong lurking around a corner that will punish you for looking. The final boss(es) of the game were very fun, if a little tedious, and looked exactly like something that would give me nightmares as a child. I could gush on and on about this masterpiece of a game, but I will end my review here. It's amazing, do yourself a favor and play it. TLDR: 10/10, enemy cyborg yuri

Un univers à explorer sans map très claire et seulement quelques lignes de dialogues pour nous guider. Une super ambiance méditative et reposante J'ai pas vu le temps passer bravo

found myself getting lost in environment the game gave me IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE. it's such a nice atmosphere to just glide through with the hoverboard. but oh lord what i would do to make those tall red enemies stop shooting me constantly LOL. i remember getting Automaton Lung on the 3DS before the eShop closed down and this honestly feels like a perfect successor to the experience that game gave me. haven't finished the game yet but i doubt there will be anything that changes my mind! And having just finished I will add this edit: LOVED the ending. i don't even have any concise thoughts as of right now seeing as how it's 3 AM but it was definitely befitting of the game as a whole. thank you for this wonderful experience.

be careful with the jump booster, i had to restart the game twice (at the time of writing) due to dying with it and losing it forever (unless there's another one other than floor 16)

immer noch kein plan was diese spiele reihe ist, aber macht spaß

Was fun. Lots of cool places to explore and stuff to shoot. Took me 9 hours to complete.

A surreal jaunt into worlds familiar and unknown

An amazing addition to the Automaton series, while the original was good it was limited to the 3Ds hardware, however as this was for PC it was able to go further and introduce a whole other side to what an atomaton is. You must play this game.