AER: Memories of Old Image
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  • Summary: AER puts you in the shoes of Auk, a magical shape-shifting girl who can transform between human and bird.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. Nov 9, 2017
    80
    Featuring a stunning low-poly art style, a wonderfully well-integrated soundtrack, an ingeniously simple control scheme, an interesting transformation mechanic, and impressively designed temples, AER has a lot going for it. It’s unfortunate that the experience is as short as it is and there is no way to keep track of what’s been seen. A few more environmental puzzles and a simple journal would fix my only complaints about this exploration-heavy title.
  2. Nov 5, 2017
    77
    A beautiful game with great flying, only held back by confusing interiors and a short duration.
  3. Oct 26, 2017
    75
    AER memories of Old is a very good little poetic game which will hook you up with it's amazing graphical style and the ability to play as an eagle to improve the freedom feel of it all. Only the shortness of the adventure may stop you from buying this at full blown price.
  4. Oct 23, 2017
    70
    Aer Memories of Old is a beautiful game. A place to come back from time to time to enjoy a flight. Forgotten Key has created a complex tiny world explained well and full of little secrets but, at the end, it feels small and we want more and more.
  5. Oct 24, 2017
    70
    I very much enjoyed my time with AER Memories of Old. It’s not perfect; it’s a little on the short side, its puzzles are a bit lacklustre, and it has an overt religious message — although if anything, that it adds to the world that AER creates. It’s beautifully designed, and if you stop often enough to take in your surroundings, you’ll find a very strong, moving narrative. If nothing else, though, it’s just so much fun to fly around.
  6. Oct 25, 2017
    68
    It's missing a gripping story.
  7. Oct 23, 2017
    40
    AER is trying so hard to look like those beloved games from which it is being inspired, but fails to do so. The game is filled with bugs and does not tell us an interesting story all along. Even though some aerial moments are quite a delight, the total lack of wind is incomprehensible, as is the rest of the gameplay. Why would you want to play this? We are still looking for an answer.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 22
  2. Negative: 5 out of 22
  1. Dec 16, 2020
    10
    Well, what can I say... (played this game before on epic) An amazing game with amazing indie visuals, great cutsceneless storyline that willWell, what can I say... (played this game before on epic) An amazing game with amazing indie visuals, great cutsceneless storyline that will keep everyone satisfied, great mechanix, character designs, great soundtrack... i could keep on forever. The only bad thing is its a bit incomplete and the ending is weird, but thats pretty much it! There's not a game i would recommend more and I honestly think that if the game would be 60$ it would be still worth buying.
    I could go about this game forever, but you should see for yourself.

    ---{Graphics}---
    ☐ You forget what reality is
    ☑ Beautiful
    ☐ Good
    ☐ Decent
    ☐ Bad
    ☐ Don‘t look too long at it
    ☐ MS-DOS

    ---{Gameplay}---
    ☑ Very good
    ☐ Good
    ☐ It‘s just gameplay
    ☐ Mehh
    ☐ Watch a tree grow instead
    ☐ Just don't

    ---{Audio}---
    ☑ Eargasm
    ☐Very good
    ☐ Good
    ☐ Not too bad
    ☐ Bad
    ☐ I'm now deaf

    ---{Audience}---
    ☐ Kids
    ☐ Teens
    ☐ Adults
    ☑ All

    ---{PC Requirements}---
    ☐ Check if you can run Tetris
    ☐ Potato
    ☑ Decent
    ☐ Fast
    ☐ Rich boi
    ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

    ---{Difficulity}---
    ☐ Just press 'W'
    ☐ Easy
    ☑ Significant brain usage
    ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
    ☐ Difficult
    ☐ Dark Souls

    ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☑ Deserves more ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ Donate the money to children in Africa ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{?/10}--- ☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5 ☐6 ☐7 ☐8 ☐9 ☑10
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  2. Feb 12, 2023
    9
    90/100. (Recomendado / Recommended)

    Maravillosa aventura "Contemplativa" del actualmente difunto estudio Sueco Forgotten Key y distribuida
    90/100. (Recomendado / Recommended)

    Maravillosa aventura "Contemplativa" del actualmente difunto estudio Sueco Forgotten Key y distribuida por Daedalic Entertainment, sello de calidad artístico de primer nivel y una narrativa sesuda. El título nos invita a explorar, sin embargo, con excepción de algún animal y entornos vistosos, no ofrece ningún incentivo adicional más allá de descubrir el mapa.

    Wonderful "Contemplative" adventure from the currently defunct Swedish studio Forgotten Key and distributed by Daedalic Entertainment, a first-rate artistic seal of quality and a brainy narrative. The title invites us to explore, however, with the exception of some animals and colorful environments, it does not offer any additional incentive beyond discovering the map.
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  3. Oct 1, 2021
    8
    A simple but very cute game. You can walk through in two to three hours. It has a very interesting visual style - minimalistic, but veryA simple but very cute game. You can walk through in two to three hours. It has a very interesting visual style - minimalistic, but very beautiful. Riddles are simple, but interesting enough. Expand
  4. Oct 13, 2018
    7
    I got this in the humble bundle, and it's a nice little game. The colourful low-poly graphics are nice but could be better, the gameplay ofI got this in the humble bundle, and it's a nice little game. The colourful low-poly graphics are nice but could be better, the gameplay of the bird and most of the puzzles are nice, but could be better, the soundtrack is very relaxing and the story is sort of ok, despite having an underwhelming conclusion and not really being a main part of the game.

    AER is a small relaxing little game, but you should probably wait for a sale.
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  5. Feb 10, 2022
    7
    PROS:
    nice style of the game
    nice gameplay nice OST just needs a bit of chores enjoyable to fly around while listening to the OST
    PROS:
    nice style of the game

    nice gameplay

    nice OST just needs a bit of chores

    enjoyable to fly around while listening to the OST

    simple controls

    free roam good looking visual landscapes

    CONS:
    story too short/feels empty

    no sub-stories

    might get lost cause there's no indicator of where you should go next so you have to read every text on screen
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  6. May 22, 2021
    6
    Atmospheric, original, not particularly challenging, and relatively short if you pay attention to what your character is told. These could beAtmospheric, original, not particularly challenging, and relatively short if you pay attention to what your character is told. These could be pluses or minuses depending on how you feel about casual games but the abrupt non-ending (with no sequel and the developer has disbanded) is disappointing. Expand
  7. Oct 9, 2020
    1
    Most boring and ugly walking simulator i ever see.
    No guys. It's not design. You can't fool me. This is cost savings and nothing more. The
    Most boring and ugly walking simulator i ever see.
    No guys. It's not design. You can't fool me. This is cost savings and nothing more. The animation shows everything, it is done badly. Physics is buggy.
    Even blueprints in the unreal can give much more interesting control.
    The stories are completely uninteresting. In Doom 3, diaries are a thousand times more interesting to read than this rubbish.
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