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Alwa's Awakening
Released On: Feb 2, 2017
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7.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
71
36% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
71
36% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
So that’s the importance of a retro game, and Alwa’s Awakening demonstrates it beautifully. With a few tweaks to make it a little more palatable to the modern gamer, Alwa’s Awakening captures the joy that can come from conquering a difficult experience. It doesn’t do anything new, but in bringing back the old, it shows how fun finding your own way can be.
Alwa's Awakening is a true, but beautiful, trip in the past. Everything is close to the old masterpieces of videogames, with only a few buttons that were able to do all the things a gamer needed.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
7.1
60% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
20% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
20% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
7.1
60% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
20% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
20% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Alwa’s Awakening es un juego completamente atemporal, que pudo haber salido en la época de la NES y funcionaría igual de bien. Un título que otorga, a grandes rasgos, un desafío interesante a la par de, valga la redundancia, desafiante a su modo.
Te lo recomendamos sí: Extrañas los juegos de antaño. Pero, dejando de lado eso, vale completamente la pena. No te lo recomiendo sí: Ya te dije que vale la pena, de verdad… a menos que no te gusten los juegos retro o Metroidvania.
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This adventure is a great choice if you enjoyed old-school games from the late 80s or early 90s. A game that feels like it's taken from another time, well-designed and really fun.
If you fancy a challenge and the price suits, you won't regret your purchase. Just don't expect your mind to be blown. [March 2017, p.83]
It will get repetitive; it is formulaic; and you’ll likely have to fumble with maps and keys. These are to be expected, if not enjoyable. But you’ll run into a newer, far more potent problem: it isn’t doing anything new.
Alwa’s Awakening may have some shortcomings, mainly the low enemy variety and relentless backtracking, but it is nevertheless a game with challenging and clever platforming that is an easy choice for anyone who is fond of platformers from the 8-bit era.
Ultimately, Alwa’s Awakening feels like the foundation to what might have been a rather more substantial revisit of the glorious 8-bit like so many before it. Though its varied locales and array of gems to find do at least give plenty of food for thought on how to achieve what may feel like a frustratingly impossible task, a lot of the finished product that comprises Alwa’s Awakening comes across as either undercooked or much too rose-tinted and reliant on nostalgia for the pure sake of it.
Alwa´s Awakening is one of the best tributes for the 8bit era I played.
Besides lovely art and music the game/level design is impressive. Usually the gameplay design is missing in smaler indie games but not here. Interesting powers that are used in often tricky puzzles.
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Su peculiar mezcla de estilos (Zelda II, Solstice y Metroid) lo hace destacar con un sabor propio que nos obliga a experimentar con nuestras habilidades como hubiéramos hecho antaño, con unos excelentes jefes finales y un desarrollo de la aventura que no nos dará la mano en ningún momento.
Si, es un título difícil y moriréis un montón de veces. Pero ahí esta la gracia y la magia del título, en devolvernos atrás en el tiempo cuando los juegos no eran pasilleros y no había un tutorial de una o dos horas que nos explicara como iba todo el asunto. Y consigue todo esto sin recurrir a trucos baratos como dificultad artificial o posiciones de enemigos tramposas.
Sin ser pefecto, sigue siendo una joyita con tanto alma y dedicación en cada uno de sus sprites que difícilmente creo que os decepcione, y seguramente para el próximo trabajo del estudio y siguiendo el buen hacer de este título, nos encontremos con algo de la liga de Shovel Knight, Megaman 9 o Maldita Castilla EX.
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Alwa's Awakening is a fun game with some interesting elements. The challenge is there and uses typical retro-gaming ways of doing it with precise jumps and very predictable enemies. I found the soundtrack not very creative and somewhat irritating after some time and had to turn the music volume down quite a bit. Overall a fairly decent game for the price.
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Pros.:
- Metroidvania.
- Some nice mechanics like bubble and block.
- Secrets.
Cons.:
- Dumb story.
- Dumb mechanics of dying touching the spikes. It should be either a hit or a variety of damage. Because some parts of the locations make the game absolutely unplayable. And very few players would grind these levels until the end.
- Poor health-weapon balance - too few.
- 3 HP without upgrades - it's a joke.
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Summary Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
Initial Release Date: Feb 2, 2017
Developer:
- Elden Pixels
Publisher: Elden Pixels
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