Have not tried challenge mode yet, so I'll update this review later when I get to that. Anyways:

Fun game! Absolutely in love with the visuals, artwork, character designs, and music. Story's pretty straightforward but it kept me engaged; the characters were very fun to me (I especially adore Fleet aaa she's awesome) and it had a satsifying conclusion including for the character arcs of the 4 main characters. I gel with the themes.

The main meat of the game is its unique turn based combat involving dice mixed in with the dungeon crawling. While picking dies can feel too random at first, the game does a good job of allowing you strategize with what skills and items you have to get the upper hand on the enemy regardless of what dies are available to you. It helps that each of the 4 playable characters have specific quirks and skills to them which allows for further thinking on how to optimize them without feeling too repetitive or monotonous (Slade is the most fun to play btw~)

The main issues of the game do lie primarily with the combat. While generally enjoyable, it can suffer from feeling too slow and repetitive depending on the enemy and what dies you receive, making rounds go too longer than necessary (the skeletons are particularly egregious about this). It gets a little worse with who you're playing as because some characters may beat the enemy more quick than the others, but the argument could be made that this relies too much on a player's playstyle and grasp of each character.

Overall, Dungeons of Aether I found really fun and would definitely recommend. It for sure made me want to check out more Aether content lol.

Reviewed on Mar 29, 2023


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11 months ago

you especially adore WHO