Everhood: Eternity Version Assessment (PS4)

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, incredible music, and a wierd story.

Enjoying as a wood 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 entails musical battles in opposition to enemies, putting you on a board and tasking you with dodging notes as they hurtle down every column in 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 enjoying — and there is barely a dud observe within the soundtrack.

Whereas the fight is described as rhythm-based, we would 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 robust, and even on the simplest problem setting, it could possibly nonetheless be a handful. We bumped into an unlucky bug that froze the sport utterly, and with guide saves solely, we misplaced chunk of progress — not enjoyable when the late-game fights get this difficult.

Whereas the principle 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 shake, chromatic aberration, rotation, warping, color shifts, and extra. It is eye-melting stuff; there’s an possibility within the settings to cut back the visible noise, although it does not do away with the whole lot.

The world you are exploring is a surreal however intriguing one, with loads of characters to fulfill. Sadly, whereas most of them are likeable, they’re principally underdeveloped, which makes some later revelations of the story ring considerably hole.

There’s lots to love about Everhood, with its unorthodox however partaking battles, weird world, and attention-grabbing story. Whereas we did not gel with most of the characters and located a few of its insane visuals a bit of an excessive amount of, total we loved the journey.