Her run animation appears to be missing a couple of crucial frames. You can choose different color schemes for Jack but I wasn’t particularly drawn to any of them. Granted, the backgrounds will change every couple zones, but the foreground elements are basically the same. Different levels are essentially palette swaps of the same city environment. I would not call myself a fan of game’s aesthetic. Thankfully, once I quelled that part of myself, the game went by rather quickly. I’m sure there are people who will enjoy clambering all over each stage, but I’m just not that guy. I did, however, find myself enjoying Aeon Drive once I suppressed my urge to get 100% completion. This is not typically the kind of game I enjoy Mighty Switch Force (and its sequel) is the singular exception. Most stages have at least one bonus item to find and grab (gems, hot dogs), but they're entirely optional and usually off the beaten path. Jackie will also get sent back to the beginning if she’s hit by an enemy or environmental hazard, which means that getting certain bonus items becomes an exercise in tedium, which I did not enjoy. Once it clicked, I was fine, but it probably took the majority of the first ten stages before I really felt comfortable with this mechanic. I found that teleporting correctly has something of a learning curve-you’ll quickly be asked to throw the knife very accurately in between spiked floors or through narrow shafts. This allows her to bypass various deadly obstacles, find bonus items, and just plain move through each stage quicker. She’s equipped with a knife-like object that can be thrown and stuck to platforms in any direction, then a quick tap of the A button will teleport Jackie to the knife’s location. Running, jumping, sliding, and attacking all feel great, but it’s Jackie’s teleportation ability that gives this game a little extra oomph.
Thankfully, each stage is littered with little batteries to pick up and collecting five will let Jackie add five precious seconds to the timer.Īny platformer that deals with speed running must have rock-solid controls, and I’m pleased to say that Aeon Dive largely meets that demand. For reasons I was never clear on, she only has 30 seconds per stage to do this or else her ship’s AI will Groundhog Day her back to the start of the stage. The threadbare story sees our heroine, Jackelyne (usually shortened to “Jack,” which I found distracting) crashing her spaceship into the futuristic city of Neo Barcelona and racing through stages in an effort to find energy cores for her busted ship. Aeon Drive takes the opposite tack-while precision platforming does come into play, you're trying to plow through each of the game’s 100 stages in about 30 seconds, give or take. This is different from something like Super Meat Boy or Celeste, where precision is the most important factor-not necessarily speed. Aeon Drive is a fast-paced platformer where your primary goal is to get from the start of every short stage to the end in the fastest possible time. After offering developer and porting services to many indie teams for a few years, 2Awesome Studio is back with their second game - Aeon Drive, a sequel to Dimension Drive, set to release in 2021.If you’re the kind of gamer who goes bananas for speed running, have I got the game for you. In 2015, Dimension Drive, the duo's first console release, was successfully funded in Kickstarter by almost 1200 backers.
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While working full time jobs at the European Space Agency as engineers, they started dreaming about developing videogames in their spare time. David Jimenez and Alejandro Santiago met back in 2006 in the Netherlands, despite being both originally from Barcelona. Genres:ĢAwesome Studio is an independent game development studio and indie publisher with the mission to add awesomeness to reality by developing video games with new and innovative mechanics. Jackelyne, with her sword, her teleportation dagger and her unique skill to control time has to retrieve faulty pieces of dimension-bending machinery in order to preserve the space-time of the universe. Aeon Drive is a speedrun action platformer set in Cyberpunk Barcelona.
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