Dungeons of Aether

Pretty fun little game, It gets hard but once you realize the poison gem and the mirror are busted you just win all the fights.

This game is really amusing. Beautiful characters, lore and is also entertaining as well.

Nice little "yahtzee" game

Dungeons of Aether is surprisingly more engaging than I had anticipated. Combat is not complicated but the nature of turn based selection gives way to a rather interesting and deeper strategy than expected. Do you claim the defense stones or prioritize speed knowing the ones you don't pick can end in enemy hands. There is as a result a large amount of time spent simply defending as attacking without sufficient defense can result in injury. Character design is what stood out the most. Each protagonist has their own special abilities and limitations. Regeneration, thievery, defense, and initiative are some of the differing aspects of each character. It makes the play style different for each new segment keeping the combat engaging for a bit longer. The equipment selection also provides a means to personalize each character. Using the bank you can outfit the same equipment on each character or try different builds. Though the pan and apron are universally useful as recovery devices. The story is largely predictable with characterization pointing to obvious outcomes. A hyper-eager hero, 3 other protagonists with their own agendas who are all guided by a mysterious old man who suggests they collect things. The rest is a near foregone conclusion. The execution however is still quite decent despite its predictable nature. That said, there is no new game mode. The game is as is, you can change the difficulty rating but the story had no hidden side quests or additional content so it can be finished in a dedicated day. It's a fun little romp into a quick adventure with unfortunately limited replay unless you seek achievements. Otherwise once you finish the story you really have no reason to return. The post credit cut scenes are nice touch. That said it took about 10 hours to complete at leisure. I may return for achievements when enough time passes but I have no immediate reason to play another session.

Un rpg muy divertido asi como exigente, en donde la suerte y la astucia son su principal condimento. -La mecanica base es muy original, al incio de la ronda se tiraran 6 dados y despues cada rival ira eligiendo uno alternandose, estos dados serviran para mejorar las estadisticas iniciales, y luego se pasa a la fase de ataque en donde tendremos que ver si es mejor hacer daño o cubrirnos (me recuerda un poco a yugi). Tambien disponemos de objetos y equipos que nos daran ventaja en diferentes situaciones, tales como dados adicionales, curarnos, o robar un dado del oponente. El juego transcurre en un mapa fijo donde tendremos que ir moviendonos por pequeñas "islas" y dependiendo de donde nos paremos activaremos diferentes eventos como batallas, o tiendas para abastecernos, hasta encontrar la salida y pasar a un nuevo mapa. La curva de dificultad esta bien cuidada, agregando desafíos nuevos a medida que avanzamos en el mapa y complicando un poco mas cada etapa, tomandome por sorpresa al encontrarme con nuevos enemigos que incluian efectos que me obligaban a pensar mas de la cuenta, y freir mi cerebro en el proceso (recuerden descansar bien y tomar aguita cada hora). -Los personajes estan bien, cumplen con ser arquetipos de un equipo rpg, pero me hubiera gustado ver un poco mas de interacciones entre ellos, aun así los dibujos son bonitos y coloridos, ademas de tener animaciones de combate muy copadas. Y tambien sirve como presentacion para los nuevos personajes que iran agregando a ROA2, Fleet y Slade estan en el roster y aun faltan los otros dos pero se ve que tardarán bastante en entrar al juego (ya pusieron al escualo asi que yo feliz :-3). La historia es clasica, protagonista super optimista, heroes que se llevan mal al principio pero despues bien, un villano que quiere destruir el mundo... nada ambicioso, pero me gustó bastante y es una aventura bien llevada de principio a fin, salvo por la parte del "diario" que es un poco lore y un poco infodumping (similar a lo que hacen los juegos de terror modernos), intenté conseguir todas las paginas que podía pero no sentí que valiera la pena ya que todo lo que se dice es lo que ya vemos en el juego. En fin, juego muy recomendado si disfrutan de los rgps y quieren probar mecanicas variadas o si juegan ROA y quieren concer un poco mas del lore de los furros etereos tambien, no duden en darle una vuelta.

Certainly a bit of an oddity in the modern fighting game landscape. An RPG spinoff based on a fighting game's world (without featuring any playable characters from that fighting game) would be an odd spinoff if this was the 1990s. In these modern times, it's basically unheard of. At least, it is for anything that wasn't initially built as a mobile game. While we could certainly dwell on the game's existence in its own right, none of that really matters if the game isn't fun. So, is the game fun? Sure. I think the dice-centric combat is undoubtedly interesting, and it's pretty much the only real idea that the game posits. It certainly adds an interesting way of spicing up the moment-to-moment turn-based combat. However, sometimes, that causes fights to drag. I've had some individual battles last for minutes on end, and not even against particularly strong enemies. Still, I think the combat is unique enough that it's certainly at least worth playing the demo. You have eyes. You have ears. You can tell how the game looks and sounds. I really dig it personally. I will say, as someone who is a fan of the Rivals of Aether games, this is just not an interesting story at all. I like some of the characters (I am not immune to the coolness of a shark pirate), the characters do feel pretty paper thin. The plot just has nothing really all that exciting. Maybe it's because I didn't read the journal entries, but the plot is incredibly basic. I don't think the game even really deepens the world or characters of the fighting games either. That's kind of a shame, because that's the exact thing I would have wanted from a RPG spinoff of Rivals of Aether. It's not a very long game either, but honestly, I think it's exactly as long as it needs to be with a story this mediocre and gameplay this experimental. I haven't played through the challenge dungeons at the time of this review, but I might give them a shot. I just figured I'd play the game on the standard difficulty and offer my two cents All in all, this is a soft recommend. Probably a 6.5 out of 10, if you are a numbers guy. There's some fun combat and some nice presentation, but the story doesn't deliver on what I was hoping for, and the game isn't very long. It's hard to say if it's worth it to you. Mind you, I did get this for like, $6 USD on sale. For that price, I would say it's worth a look. And of course, there's always the demo as well.

Why didn't this game support Keyboard+Mouse to play? I don't know, it was strange, but it does support controller perfectly which is good. The gameplay itself is good, the harder difficulties suck though such as hard mode when you fight against bosses because they can adjust dice while you adjust your dice too instead of just locking in their choice which is unfair considering bosses can have higher stats, and challenge mode, just don't question it, it's hard mode but 5x more miserable. Do not play hard mode as your first blind playthrough, same with Advanced mode (you can, but it'll take way longer to beat the game because you wouldn't have learned much of the things around you), advanced and hard feel similar, couldn't tell the difference, just play on 'story' difficulty so that you won't have to deal with the unfairness. Bosses for example cannot recieve 2 damage at a time which is kinda bogus, that's why I prefer to use Fleet's #7 move (I call it her ultimate) which is when you damage the enemy and you get bonus dice for your next turn, all the other character's ultimates just do 2 damage at the cost of something. But if you're an absolute masochist, try challenge mode eventually, everything will be stacked against you (it's so hard I couldn't even find YouTube footage of anyone completing it). This is one of my favorite RPG's, I actually didn't expect it to be this good for what it is. And the soundtrack is great. I'm pretty sure you can run this on any hardware just like in ROA1 if I am not mistaken.

[i]Hola a todos vengo a comentar mi experiencia con este juego ! Bueno para los que no saben este juego es un Spin off de Rivals of Aether por lo tanto tienen un estilo de juego distinto entre ambos. A mi siempre me habia intrigado la historia de Rivals of Aether sobre la guerra, la destruccion total y porque un personaje viajaba en el tiempo y bla bla bla. A lo que quiero llegar con esto es que en este juego te cuentan un poco la historia de otros personajes que estan pasando por otros problemas mientras suceden los conflictos en la Nacion de Fuego, lo cual me parece maravilloso porque te permite conocer a los protas del juego y encariñarte con ellos. Los Protagonistas de este juego me gustaron todos, sinceramente me gustaria que los metieran a todos al Rivals of Aether 2 XD, pero eso ira sucediendo con el tiempo. El Gameplay me parece algo innovador porque yo no habia visto algo asi en tiempo en juegos Turn Based con Dados de por medio. Al Principio puede ser dificil pero cuando aprendes como se juega ya esta. El juego es corto en cuanto a Historia pero muy largo si las peleas se te estiran demasiado porque hay veces que no podes atacar entonces no te queda otra que defenderte y eso alarga un poco mas la pelea. Para mi todos los Personajes son fuertes pero si es cierto que algunos destacan mas sobre otros entre ellos Artemis y Slade que son Brutales. Yo creo que lo mejor de este juego mas alla del estilo de jugabilidad son los Diseños de Personajes y la Banda Sonora. La Banda sonora es maravillosa tiene tremendos temones este juego, por si quieren escuchar un ejemplo busquen este que es contra un Boss " Maelstrom Miner - Dungeons of Aether OST " Yo la pase bien, si jugaron al Rivals of Aether y luego juegan esto van a querer como yo y otras personas mas que jugaron este juego a que metan los personajes de aca al Rivals. Yo lo recomiendo mucho. Eso es todo por mi parte ! Saludos ![/i]