Check out these other reviews
| Don’t miss anything and follow us on Google News! |
As of today, I think I can say that Eternal Game Studios It is synonymous with quality. The Spanish studio seems increasingly committed to its releases, whether due to the constant presence of its teams on the networks, as well as the quality of communication they have with the community and the way they take note of the problems or suggestions they have.
Many of those who read these lines will correctly associate the studio’s name with the Aeterna Noctis saga, a metroidvania that took the genre by storm with impressive quality and freshness. in its release, something he later achieved with Summun Aeterna, although perhaps to a lesser extent and which laid the foundations for Aeterna Lucis, a launch in full development and which was put on low heat to complete the work that brings us together today: Eden Genesis.
This episode changes the aesthetics of the studio’s previous games and moves us away from epic fantasy to take us into a totally cyberpunk environment where we will take control of Leah Anderson, a cyborg hacker whose brain modifications cause her to contract a mental illness known as synthetic neurodegeneration or SND for its acronym in English, an illness that seems to extend more or less to all humans in this world.
While the outlook looks bleak for Leah, Free Your Mind offers her a solution that includes transplanting consciousness into a virtual environmentbut for this, the protagonist must pass a series of tests which, as you can imagine, are not simple at all.
I hope you rested your hands because in this futuristic world, we will need our maximum skill with our fingers and the sharpest reflexes to survive. Come with me to discover the world of Eden Genesis.
Subscribe to the GX channel on YouTube
Technical section
If you have already enjoyed other games from the studio, perhaps you will not be so surprised by the animation style of the characters and backgrounds, hand-drawn, although I am already used to the work of the artists in this aspect, I must admit that continues to pleasantly surprise me.
The cyberpunk aesthetic itself makes The sets are visually very attractive with lush colors that constantly contrast between the darkness and the neon lights that seem to be part of every corner of this future world depicted in dreamlike HD.
The title has a really interesting soundtrack that mixes traditional symphonic melodies and operates with much more techno sounds at a general level, a mix that may seem a bit crazy but that works perfectly to accompany the frenzy of the game levels.
This analysis, the difference in other data, is carried out on a PC and on your computers, one is an i9 with 16 GB of RAM and another an i5 with 8 GB of RAM and in both cases the fluid, essential element for this generation, is total , for what You don’t need a NASA-grade processor to be able to run the title.
The sounds are very well done, what surprised me quite a bit were the voices. The actresses and dubbing actors did a very good job in this case, but I am struck by the fact that there is no dubbed dialogue in english taking into account the nationality of the studio, although the game is localized in our language in its interface and subtitles
Gameplay
The game doesn’t stray from what modern metroidvania standards dictate, but it does so well and smoothly.
Basically, Eden Genesis offers us a somewhat unusual route in which we must pass through different doors to access events of varying difficulty. Some of these cases They will reward speed and constant movement by phase, while others focus on combat, although they don’t leave out platforming skills either.
Our protagonists can shoot on certain occasions, climb walls, ceilings, perform dashes in the air that will always remind me a lot of Mega Man, and many other acrobatics that will increasing as the story progresses of the title and who will try, sometimes successfully and sometimes less successfully, to reduce the difficulty of these tests.
The result of these evaluations, as expected, will depend on the performance of the player who will be rated with letters ranging from D to S+, being the highest category. Complete the tests with a grade of A Now, it provides the items needed to advance through the different sectors that the game offers, each requiring a certain amount of items to overcome certain barriers.
In addition to the platform and action phases, throughout the adventure we will encounter some terminals that can be hacked. These situations shoot mini games which are solved by pressing the buttons that appear on the screen, although I warn you to have a lot of patience because the difficulty of these games is really high and you just have to 3 attempts at once before having to start all over again from the beginning.
A map shows the route and the main places of interest as well as the elements needed to access a new sector of the scene, which in the story is a virtual replica of the real world.
Duration
We are facing a vast game, not only because of the scope of the main story, which in itself is far from short, but also because of the number of times we will have to retry the tests to reach the maximum score or, at least, the minimum to be able to advance to another part of the map.
At the same time, the game offers side missions such as obtaining artificial intelligence parts which are shaped like purple Super Nintendo cartridges and which further extend the gaming experience.
conclusion
Even though there is still half to go until the end of 2024, I have no doubt that Eden Genesis will be consecrated as one of the best metroidvanias of the year and it is a must-have title for all fans of the genre. That said, if you are not a fan of this type of game, the title is not the best entry point given the difficulty it presents and that the repeated attempts to overcome the marks to advance in the story can become repetitive and even become tedious at times.
Gabriel Ignacio Fuentes
Good
- The graphics section is still great
- An example of what a metoidvania can be
The bad
- Can get repetitive at some point
- The absence of voice in Spanish
👋 Follow us on:
Stay up to date with all the latest Xbox and Microsoft news on our social channels.
Table of Contents
