Over the course of my adventure through Aaru’s Awakening, I encountered boiling lava beasts and crackling mountains made of electric current, defeated gods of both Day and Night. That sounds like good stuff, except that in the process I perished well over 1,500 times, and roughly 700 of those could have been avoided were it not for Aaru’s often unfair-feeling gameplay and some unwieldy default controls. Despite well-crafted platforming puzzles and vibrantly designed world, I was ready to be finished with Aaru well before Aaru was finished with me.
Aaru’s Awakening is, at the very least, a beautiful game. Developer Lumenox has crafted a colorful world in an interesting hand-drawn style. Each stage is an elaborate fever dream come to life – beasts that live in daylight boil and melt under the heat of the sun, while the creatures of night are shadowy figures contrasted against a starry background. Each frame of gameplay could have been torn from an artist’s sketchpad, and I thought it a shame that the fast pace at which I was driven forward didn’t allow me to stop and admire the work that has clearly been poured into each environment.
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