Making video games is hard. It starts with an idea that emboldens its creators to push through the struggles of game development to reach the goal of getting that idea into gamers? hands. Personally, I?ve worked on game that didn?t come together until the final days. The team at Void Studios spent four years working on Eternity: The Last Unicorn and built something that can never be taken away.
Eternity: The Last Unicorn is a throwback to games of a bygone era. It?s a third-person action-RPG with a fixed camera. Think Onimusha meets Dark Souls, with the developers going so hard to feel retro they ran into problems that not even the Resident Evil games could fix. When you enter a new area that has a different camera angle, sometimes your controls will change with it, and it definitely takes some getting used to.
Elves And Valkyries And Vikings, Oh My!
Eternity builds its story around Norse mythology. The elf Aurehen is the main protagonist of the story as she is searching for a way to save the last unicorn who holds the power of immortality for the elves. Bior the viking is looking for his lost comrades and fears that he is the last of his group. The story is pretty light and there is no voice acting in the game besides some character and enemy grunts. All of the story is told through cutscenes with subtitles which was very jarring at first in 2019.
Being a big fan of classic action-RPG games such as Witcher and Mass Effect I was hoping for a deep RPG system with a story th...