Immortals of Aveum Review (Anime Jones)
All the fancy engine features in the world can't save mediocre art direction, laughable animations, and stuttery performance. I have a 7800X3D and a 4090, and yet the game still finds a way to frequently stutter.
But that's just the start of this game's problems. The dialogue writing is insipid and, aside from the Kirkan character, the voice acting is terrible. The pacing is awful too. In my 90 minutes, I was still completing dull, scripted tutorial sequences, and the game throws one unskippable cutscene after another at you, all of them as pointlessly drawn out as the last.
The action has potential to be decent, but the controls are wonky. There's a weird acceleration to your movement, and the jumping is floaty. There's no real dodge mechanic or anything to speak of, despite there being many attacks you'd very much like to dodge. There's very little feedback on whether you're hitting an enemy or not. It all feels very imprecise and unimpactful.
The developers were really trying for something big with this game, but nearly every aspect falls flat for me. The terrible performance is just the icing on the cake.