Aaru's Awakening
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Critic Reviews for Aaru's Awakening
Beautiful and creative, but controls and design issues often drag it from challenging to frustrating.
Despite some good ideas and a cool art style, Aaru's Awakening falls short of being a dream platformer.
If you can retrain your brain to these unorthodox controls, Aaru's Awakening offers some fun platforming moments
Lumenox states on Aaru's Awakening's Steam Store page that it's "a hand-drawn, fast-paced 2D action platformer." The issue here is that there isn't a whole lot of action to speak of, outside of the occasional enemy elimination through warping, and its trial-and-error nature causes it to be anything but fast paced.
Aaru's Awakening is a beautiful frolic into a world of nightmares and imbalance: championed by its hand-drawn art style, compulsive level of difficulty and thrilling sense of achievement.
I loved the art style of Aaru's Awakening, I loved the story premise it had, and I loved teleporting. I did not love the rest of the gameplay decisions along the way.
A fine game which presents a grueling challenge, Aaru's Awakening is perfect for the player who thinks 2D platform games today just aren't difficult enough.
