Everhood: Eternity Version takes the cult hit indie recreation and brings it to PlayStation with some unique new battles to grasp. For these out of the loop, Everhood is an journey recreation with disarmingly fundamental presentation that shortly pulls the rug from beneath you, subverting your expectations with outrageous visible aptitude, improbable music, and an odd story.
Enjoying as a picket doll whose arm is stolen, your quest to get it again kicks off a recreation that goals to shock and shock at each flip. Half the sport includes musical battles towards enemies, putting you on a board and tasking you with dodging notes as they hurtle down every column in the direction of you. Afterward this idea evolves in some neat methods, however every combat is a singular problem that matches the character you are combating and the music that is taking part in — and there is barely a dud observe within the soundtrack.
Whereas the fight is described as rhythm-based, we might argue it is extra bullet hell. You are not matching the beat, you are avoiding an onslaught of on-beat assaults, both side-stepping or hopping over them. It will possibly get very powerful, and even on the best problem setting, it could nonetheless be a handful. We bumped into an unlucky bug that froze the sport fully, and with handbook saves solely, we misplaced chunk of progress — not enjoyable when the late-game fights get this tough.
Whereas the primary recreation has an understated retro look, the presentation explodes in a few of the battles. These are visually arresting scenes, however could be extraordinarily overwhelming, combining display screen shake, chromatic aberration, rotation, warping, color shifts, and extra. It is eye-melting stuff; there may be an choice within the settings to scale back the visible noise, although it does not do away with all the things.
The world you are exploring is a surreal however intriguing one, with loads of characters to satisfy. Sadly, whereas most of them are likeable, they’re principally underdeveloped, which makes some later revelations of the story ring considerably hole.
There’s rather a lot to love about Everhood, with its unorthodox however participating battles, weird world, and fascinating story. Whereas we did not gel with lots of the characters and located a few of its insane visuals slightly an excessive amount of, total we loved the journey.