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Aeterna Noctis
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging 2D hand-drawn action platformer, a Metroidvania with thrilling combat that will keep you on the edge of your seat and heart-stopping platform sections that will put your skills to the test. Become the King of Darkness in an epic journey through 16 connected areas.
Details
- Released
- December 14, 2021
- Developer
- Aeternum Game Studios
- Publisher
- Aeternum Game Studios
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Aeterna Noctis is a beautiful and tough-as-nails Metroidvania-style platformer by Spanish developer Aeternum Game Studios. Featuring a sprawling and varied world, difficult platforming challenges, and gorgeous art direction, Aeterna Noctis will be just what fans of games like Hollow Knight and the 2D Castlevania entries have been looking for.
If a challenge is what you’re after, you’ll find it within Aeterna Noctis. There’s still plenty to appreciate and enjoy if that’s up your alley, but it doesn’t do enough to allow its concept to stand out from the competition.
Aeterna Noctis is a 2D-metroidvania game that tells the story of the King of Darkness and the Queen of Light.
Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy my time with Aeterna Noctis and don't see myself wanting to return to it. It’s worth mentioning that the Switch version feels unoptimized for the system. There’s constant loading between each screen transition that breaks up a lot of the pace of the game. If you’ve played any other Metroidvania, just think about hitting a load screen for every single screen transition and you can quickly realize why that can be a real downer. The visuals also feel like they have too much motion blur on them or some kind of video compression effect that just leads to a muddy…