Aura: Fate of the Ages

The graphics are looking quite dated, now, but the game contains some nice puzzles, the music is good and the story entertaining. I found many of the the puzzles very hard. There is little or no help and no way to pin notebook pages to keep them in view, which is really needed. I used a walkthrough and many of the connections it suggests you need to make are **very** subtle and I missed a lot of them. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the game and recommend it.

Неплохой квест, цепляющий своей музыкой и атмосферой. Да и есть в этих старых играх - mystoподобных и phoenix vr - какая-то своя душа, к которой хочется прикоснуться еще спустя столько лет. И это чтото уже давно прошедшее, чего больше никогда не выйдет... Как бы то ни было, в стиме только первая часть серии, второй в стиме нет, а третьей нет в принципе - поэтому после прохождения ощущение незавершенности все равно останется. Без прохождения играется не очень, как и все подобные игры, поэтому спокойно проходится за пару дождливых вечеров с чаем и руководством под рукой. Однозначно стоит приобрести и пройти

Aura has some interesting puzzles to solve, though that's about where this game's appeal ends. I bought this game eons ago during a sale and it's been sitting in my Steam library untouched ever since. As part of my 2023 resolution to play more and buy less, I thought I would finally give Aura: Fate of the Ages a go. [b]NOTE:[/b] I'm not going to unfairly grade a 20-year-old game on its graphics quality. However, through the various cut scenes in the game, both the animation of the characters and the dialogue are horrendous, even for the era. The writing could have and should have been better. I think the game would have been MORE interesting had they taken the characters out and left more mystery to the world and the environment. The discovery of symbolism and patterns alongside other elements is pretty decent from a puzzle perspective, but the intermingling of sub-par storytelling and lackluster performances make this a difficult game to recommend. Given there's no option to rate the game as "mixed", I'm giving Aura a thumbs-up based on the puzzles. But it's barely there given the deafening cry of a shoddy story layered on top.

Really frustrating. My rating 1/10 not recommended.

Can no longer launch game. Tried to go back to this, since I was feeling in a puzzle-mood, but after a fresh install after years, trying to launch it had it stuck in a booting loop. Very sad.

Amazing game with very interesting puzzles. The graphics & movement are way old fashioned. I experienced some trouble in moving around as some options would only be available/clickable, only if the cursor was on a specific place within surroundings, but that makes perfect sense if you consider the fact, that the game is quite old.. The puzzles are a bit difficult, certainly not suitable for everyone. I am an adventure game lover and some of them squeezed my brain for weeks. Again, considering its release time, it has a lot of cool-weird machines and fantastic mechanisms. I definitely recommend it, if someone likes adventure games and don't mind playing games from different era (with whatever that comes with)