Elohim Eternal: The Babel Code

I definitely respect that there is ambition on display here, but It doesn't stick the landing, at least not well enough to keep me playing. So the thing going on here that shapes the experience the most is that the game is using a style full of biblical terms and names, drawing its ideas heavily from Old testament names and the Mesopotamian mythology that those faiths have historical ties to. It's a neat ambition, and sounds interesting on paper, right up until you play this game and discover that it's more [i]distracting[/i] than [i]interesting[/i] in-context, trying to piece together what these words and names I barely know mean in the real world, and spend 30 minutes of my playtime slowly realizing that this game is full-on its own fantasy thing, and none of those half-remembered ideas are actually accurate. It is a weird double-standard that this annoys me when they do it with biblical themes but I love it with other mythologies, but it is absolutely a defining experience of playing this game. The actual turn-based combat system seems fine. It does use real-time button inputs, a-la paper mario and that sort of thing, which I always hate, but I know isn't a dealbreaker to a lot of other people like it is to me. It wasn't a negative for my short playtime, but it definitely didn't endear me to the game. I dunno, it might just be that this game is a uniquely bad fit for my tastes, even though I usually adore trawling through steam JRPGs, but I'm bouncing off it hard and fast. The fact that, before I click 'post review' here, this game has no negative reviews is making me second-guess myself a little, but I'm just not sticking with this one.

[h1]Spielbewertung von TrophyHunter[/h1] Dieses Spiel habe ich auf Anfrage über "Curator Connect" erhalten. Ich habe bereits einige RPG's gespielt, weshalb ich mir dieses Exemplar nicht entgehen lassen wollte. Ich bin wirklich positiv von dem Spiel überrascht worden, als ich es getestet habe. "Elohim Eternal: The Babel Code" ist ein faszinierendes und episch dimensioniertes RPG, das Spieler in eine umfangreiche Spielwelt eintauchen lässt. Die Welt des Spiels ist sehr groß und bietet eine Vielzahl von Gebieten, die erkundet werden können. Die Story von "Elohim Eternal: The Babel Code" ist umfangreich und komplex. Es gibt eine Vielzahl von Haupt- und Nebenmissionen, welche miteinander verstrickt sind. Die Spieler werden in eine Welt voller Geheimnisse, Intrigen und Verrat gezogen und müssen das Rätsel des Babel-Codes entschlüsseln, um die Wahrheit aufzudecken. Das Gameplay des Spiels entpuppt sich als eine ausgiebige Spielerfahrung, welche mit anspruchsvollen Kämpfen und Nebenaktivitäten, die Spieler fesselt. Vom Handel, über das Lösen von Rätseln und das Erforschen der Umgebung, gibt es unzählige Möglichkeiten, die Spielzeit zu genießen und den Charakter weiter zu entwickeln. Wenn wir gerade schon beim Thema Charakterentwicklung sind, möchte ich mal hier erwähnen, dass der Spieler die Möglichkeit hat, seinen Charakter individuell anzupassen und zu spezialisieren. Es gibt eine Vielzahl von Fähigkeiten, Talenten und Ausrüstungsoptionen, die es dem Spieler ermöglicht, seinen eigenen Spielstil zu entwickeln und sich in verschiedenen Aspekten des Spiels zu verbessern. Wie bei den meisten RPG's, ist auch hier die Grafik auf einen simplen Retro-Stile zurückzuführen. Die Umgebung der einzelnen Ebenen wurden schön gestaltet und bieten eine anschauliche Atmosphäre. Grundsätzlich erfordert das Spiel Geduld und Hingabe, um das volle Potenzial auszuschöpfen, weshalb man sehr viele Spielstunden in dem Game verbringen kann. Leider besitzt "Elohim Eternal: The Babel Code" keine Errungenschaften und kostet zur Zeit um die 10€. Ich persönlich finde, dass "Elohim Eternal: The Babel Code" ein umfangreiches und fesselndes RPG-Erlebnis bietet, in der sich der Spieler gut, durch eigene Entscheidungen, in die Storyline integrieren kann. Man kann es nicht anders sagen, dass es RPG-Enthusiasten stundenlang in seinen Bann ziehen kann. Und das sage ich nach 34 Stunden Spielzeit, obwohl RPG's nicht gerade mein lieblings Genre sind. Wie immer, macht euch am besten ein eigenes Bild. 👑 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43242924/]Weitere Spielbewertungen[/url] 👑

This game was amazing. Brought up all the feelings of being younger and playing snes games. The theme, story, and art are all fantastic but the music was by far the best I've heard in a long while. I cannot wait for the second in the series to follow up with that damn cliff hanger! George & your team deserve all the praise and an award for this. You made me post my first review since this platform has existed.

Story starts out slow then builds up as you go, telling a epic tale of Enemy becoming friend and Betrayal of loved ones. Fair few Biblical references and other statements about faith. Nothing that in your face and make you regret playing well written game. Some of the characters start out as someone you don't like but start to grow on you slowly as characters growth expands through out the game. Each character brings its little quirky charm to the adventure. Combat is fun, Mix of shin megami tensei weakness as well classical turn based combat. Each foe has it weakness and exploiting it will give you bonus damage if you time the quick time event right. Heavenly or Godly bonus damage. Combat isn't too hard either, some fights do require some changing of abilities so everyone can damage the bosses. I didn't run into any bugs during my game play, which overall is good since nothing would stop your progression of story. Game also does have two modes select from story mode if you don't want any combat during your story and just enjoy the story or combat on and enjoy the story as well the combat. Overall this has been a fun experience playing Elohim Eternal The Babel Code. It's well worth your time, so give it a try and enjoy the story being told.

I need to preface this. I have not played more an hour in. That said, I want to say that despite being early into the game, I have found the lore and research used in the world building to be amazing. I see some Tolkien's take on Norse Dwarves but instead of Norse, focused on Judeo-Christian. Now, I have, comparatively, a fairly strong knowledge of this topic than your average lay-person with my religious studies in school. I have had religion in a classroom setting since I was in pre-school. I could relate to you the story of Ehud, my second favorite judge as he was the one no one saw coming...just because he was left-handed. The story of Judah's Daughter-in-law, who lost her first husband, was married to the next eldest who refused to have a child with her and also died, then was supposed to marry Shelah, the youngest son as was the law and tradition. Judah delayed this, not wanting another son to possibly die. So she tricked him as he was...um...shall we say seeking some physical release...by disguising herself as a lady who provided such services. Not having money, she convinced Judah to give her his seal. She was pregnant and, Judah, seeing a chance to keep the "black widow" away from his youngest, tried to bring "charges". I still smile trying to imaging the look on his face when she revealed that HE was the father by giving him his seal. I do not say this to "flex". I say this to demonstrate the GRAVITY of my next statement. This game is brilliant. The names are all WELL thought out. I have learned NEW names and terms and see interesting wordplay. Seriously. See a name? Look it up. IT IS LEGIT. To...not spoil TOO much...I want to share this fun thing I noticed. There are two races introduced early on. I will not spoil one but bring up the VERY first. The Idinites. When I played the prologue, I am ashamed to admit, I didn't really know how to pronounce it. I have the issue with words I do not hear pronounced. When I played THIS? I sounded it out, slowly. Trying to see after finding no info on Idin or Idinites because every other name seemed to pop up. Then, it hit me. Idin. EE-DIN. Eden. EDEN! Please buy this game.

A very story driven jrpg. I loved that there was just a small cast of characters so you could really get to know their stories throughout the game. The battle system was unique. I hope in the future that in addition to an extra attack, we can have combo attacks as well. And would love more slots to customize which divine skills you want. I liked that if you wanted to grind you could, and you could make monsters respawn. I still prefer invisible enemies but to each their own. If you don't want to grind, that's fine too. You'll make it through this game just as well. I would love to see more world travel in the future, not just getting from place to place via a map and having different relics or weapons for character customization (not just skills) would be awesome too. All in all, would recommend.

A clear labor of love with some creative bits that probably has an audience, but that I'm struggling to give a thumbs up to. There are two main points that leave me not really wanting to reopen the game after an hour and a half of playing. COMBAT: Clear effort went into making this different from the usual cookie-cutter RPG combat, and yet... it ends up feeling even more repetitive. After over an hour I literally have one command I can use (aside from consumable items) across 3 different characters: casting the same spell. (This is one of those situations where technically there are 7 spells, but they are all identical, just with different elements.) There's no attack command even -- which is actually interesting and neat, yet ironically results in combat feeling even more pre-ordained and choiceless. I haven't hit Divine Mageia yet but based on other reviews it doesn't sound like that system will actually add much variety. STORYTELLING: Again, lots of creativity here and definitely not generic. I do actually want to know more. But the pacing is very slow, with a lot of repetitive exchanges of e.g. NPCs re-enacting the same ethnic feud over and over and over. And because the world/theme are so creative, the game just throws you into a huge pile of unfamiliar terms and setting with very little to understand WHY any of this matters. It's easy enough to follow what's going on -- it just feels arbtirary and weird. As an example, here's an explanatory text that popped up a short while into the game: "Divine mageia is stored in krystallos that are refined. Once refined, these krystallos can be equipped in the channels of an Idinite's khoshen. A khoshen is the hollow recess of an Idinite's chest which, which full of refined krystallos, gives the Idinite their Kosmokrater-giver power." Some of the terms in this text had come up before but none have so far been fully explained. It's easy enough to figure out this means "you can equip spells" (although the ability to do so isn't actually unlocked yet). tl;dr -- very interesting concept and theme, but between the extremely one-dimensional combat, the high terminology learning load, and the slow pace of meaning and understanding, it just doesn't feel worth it to keep playing. If the dev puts something else out taking some lessons from EE, I would definitely give it a try.

There hasn't been a recent review for this game, so I thought I'd add my own after just now beating it, clocking in at a smidge over 11 hours of playtime. Do note that I am an incredibly fast reader and a JRPG veteran so the playtime of around 15 hours or so documented by other users is very accurate as well depending on your reading speed and how much time you take exploring and tinkering with the game's systems. So speaking of the game's systems, we'll start there. Battles I feel ARE the weakest link of this game, with them being fairly rote turn-based fare that ultimately found me spamming the same skills and using generally the same setup and strategy throughout. The extra timed button press after hitting an enemy weakness was interesting but undercooked; the press never varies or changes in any way, not even with status effects affecting the timing or anything like that. The inspiration is clearly something like Legend of Dragoon for this, but LoD had increasingly complex button chains with almost rhythmic timing and this fails to deliver on meaningfully enhancing the combat experience. Divine mageia (sort of like limit breaks but a bit different) had some interesting concepts but so long as you basically kept the heal on all three characters and the purple shield destroyer on at least one you could make it through the game with minimal difficulty. This isn't inherently a bad thing, as I don't believe games need to be hard to be fun, but for an entry with a lot of promise in every other area I did find myself wishing the actual combat had been given as much attention. I essentially spent most of my time using the big nuke divine skill and healing up afterward with another character. Despite that, I did find that there was a lot of flexibility with how you wanted to set up your characters (I had one as the standard magic user, one as the big divine skill nuker, and another with insane speed on permanent support duty), so I'm hopeful that future entries give the combat a bit more thorough tweaking. It was fun to PLAY with, but I felt like hardly any of it MATTERED, if that makes sense. Now, onto the parts where I think the game really excelled: music and story. The music is surprisingly well-crafted and really sets the atmosphere well. There's a solid amount of tracks for a 10-15 hour game and none of them I felt were recycled ad nauseum. The only one that got a bit stale was the basic battle theme, but I find that true for almost any JRPG if they use the same track for battles for the entire time (Battle for Survival from Digital Devil Saga 2 is about the only exception I've ever heard in my 20+ years of JRPG play). Boss battles did actually have their own separate tracks, 2-3 of them I want to say, and they were wonderfully done too. Character and monster art were solid for an indie title, and I liked that none of the monster designs were reused - every dungeon had completely brand new monster art and that was rad as hell. The main character also goes through a few changes throughout the story and that is actually reflected in his character portrait too. Now, onto the big meat of why you should play this game - the story. I know all of the other reviews mentioned this as well, but it's clear the dev has a very ambitious tale he wants to tell, and I think he did a fantastic job of setting it up with this first entry. Some parts are rough - the plot moves almost TOO briskly in spots and I think some of the more shocking moments don't really have time to sink in - but there's a very engaging mystery set up with a separate dimension where gods seemingly dwell and the factions in the game trying to either reach it or not reach it (there's a reason the game's subtitle references the Tower of Babel, ha). The Christianity influence is present here, but it was also present in Xenogears and in other JRPGs, so I don't think it's anything fans of the genre will find preachy or oppressive. We're used to having to kick God's butt in some way or another, after all. Of the three main characters, I will say that the only one who felt truly compelling to me was Beyoz, but the other two are perfectly fine in their own right and don't actively detract from the story. The main character, Joshwa, does start out fairly unlikable but this is undoubtedly by design, as he undergoes quite a bit of progression throughout the story as his worldviews are constantly challenged. Ruthia starts out as a strong character but I felt by the end of the journey she was a bit too plagued by self-doubt and worry - this isn't an impossible or out-of-nowhere change, given the circumstances, but it felt like a backslide to what was a strong female entry in a fairly male-dominated game. Again, none of the characters outwardly spoiled the story experience, these are just my personal thoughts. Probably my biggest complaint about the story is that...it's a cliffhanger ending. I try not to say things like this in reviews, but I only think it's fair for those coming in to be aware - this seems like a very ambitious project, and the way the first game ends is clearly intended to set up things for a sequel. This can make a lot of questions feel unanswered and frankly, some of the character arcs to feel unfinished, especially since we know the second game doesn't take place in the same realm. I can only hope a lot of these questions are solved in the sequel, since my initial reaction upon beating the first game was "...that's it? I feel like I barely know ANYTHING still". That's not a bad thing, since it means the game successfully piqued my interest, but dangling threads tend to unravel things if there are too many of them, if you know what I mean. Overall, I'd recommend this game, especially if you can get it on a solid sale, maybe bundled with the sequel like I did (I think I paid $12 for both games, not bad at all). There's definitely rough spots, but if you want to play something that really attempts to create the feeling of a huge story with a heavy religious and futuristic scope like Xenogears, this game is definitely worth a playthrough.

Woooooo! Just finished the game and it was a very enjoyable experience! The level of detail put into the world and historia is really impressive and the storyline is captivating and addicting. Gameplay is great as far as RPG Maker game goes-it feels fresh and it's intuitive but never too difficult or pointless. So fun to play a really well developed game by independent developers! Definitely reccomended!