Разработчик: Creaky Lantern Games
Описание
Help Ellica brave the crazed groundskeeper, an overzealous hall monitor and waves upon waves of wayward flying cats in the adventure of a lifetime… or maybe just the adventure of this week.
Aeternum is a side-scrolling "danmaku" (aka. bullet hell) SHMUP where you must guide the main character through waves of enemies firing masses of bullets at you, and face off against boss characters featuring intricately scripted patterns of bullets.
The game and aesthetics were heavily inspired by the likes of other shmups like Deathsmiles and the Touhou Project series, but with an all original cast, story and setting there's plenty of brand new SHMUP fun to enjoy.
Play Story Mode, where you help Ellica attempt to unravel the mystery of a rash of disappearances of students from Aeternum Academy, including her best friend Macy. Or, turn off the dialogue and just enjoy dodging bullets!
Once you've mastered that, take on Arrange mode for a more advanced scoring experience, or try Pacifist Mode where you can't even shoot back!
Aeternum features five stages, and 8 full boss fights, as well as five difficulty levels all the way from Easy up to Lunatic, which is definitely not for the inexperienced!
The Aeternum soundtrack features seventeen tracks of entirely new chip-pop synth music by long time video game remix scenester Jesse Bishop. Sure to get your heart pounding as you dodge!
Full OST download is included as free DLC with the game!
The Aeternum team is:
- Brooks Bishop: Design, development, programming, art and scripting.
- Nate Graves: Dialogue and scenario development
- Jesse Bishop: Music
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 (or later)
- Processor: 2.0 Ghz dual core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB video card (Shader Model 2.0 or higher)
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
- Additional Notes: Xbox 360 controller officially supported
Отзывы пользователей
I am 32 years old.
My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.
When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.
Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.
With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happineass of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.
After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.
Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.
Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.
Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.
Thank you.
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Recommended for game farming
Absolutely fantastic game. Good mechanics and enjoyable gameplay. I had this title on the Xbox Indie market back in the day and was happy to rebuy it.
Nice game with some trippy background transitions, the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission if you like chiptune.
Edit: This review used to link to the soundtrack on bandcamp, but it doesn't seem to be there anymore as of the time of update. Fortunately, the soundtrack is free through steam under the games dlc section.
I enjoy the soundtrack the most. The game itself, it is very well made. I'm not very good at danmaku/bullet hell games, but with the shield system, it's perfect!
I don't really have any major gripes with it, honestly. Other than it's still programmed for 360 buttons on the tutorial and text boxes, but that's honestly not a huge issue.
Pick up if you enjoy side-scrolling shootemups, wild happy music and magic storylines!!
If it doesn't have it, could use a co-op option!
An diamond in the rough, Aeternum is a western made shmup that could not borrow more from Touhou in style or design. You play a demon girl (And later a couple of other characters) flying through a school, blasting trash enemies, dodging huge piles of bullets with a tiny hitbox, and meeting a quirky anime girl, with whom communications immediately break down a fight starts. The bosses have timed and scored patterns with bonuses for clearing them successfully without getting hit, as well as time out options to support the game's pacifist mode, but the trippy visuals when they engage them is pure Touhou. Enemies drop power items that boost your power, which also doubles as your bombs, and of course there's a Touhou style autocollect line if you can advance far enough on the screen. Dangerous but rewarding.
This game doesn't really WANT to murder you though; bosses drop a full bomb's worth of power each pattern you clear. And if that's not enough, on Story mode you get nearly infinite retries so long as each death just throws you back in with much less power and you can keep coming back as long as your power doesn't hit zero; a boss would have to utterly destroy you for that to happen. Not to say it can't and won't, but the game makes the bosses work for it, yet it feels like the gamer dignity wounding charity it is. The story is charming enough and worth the trip.
For the veterans, an arcade mode drops the story chatter and the infinite respawn gimmick, as well as four difficulties to meet you wherever you like on skill level from a walk in the park to a walk through Detroit with the wrong gang colors while Pyramid Head, Nemesis, and the T-1000 are after you for your past, present, and future. Bullet patterns are elaborate, colorful, and spammy in a Touhou-esque manner. An extra boss, again Touhou-esque, concludes the story in a clever manner that leaves it satisfying and also whets my appetite for other games in this goofy universe.
There's a lot of competition in the indie shmup market these days, but Aeternum is worth your time if you have any love for a Touhou style bullet hell.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Creaky Lantern Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 24.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 100% положительных (8) |