Everhood: Eternity Version Overview (PS4)

Everhood: Eternity Version takes the cult hit indie sport and brings it to PlayStation with some unique new battles to grasp. For these out of the loop, Everhood is an journey sport with disarmingly primary presentation that rapidly pulls the rug from underneath you, subverting your expectations with outrageous visible aptitude, incredible music, and a wierd story.

Taking part in as a wood doll whose arm is stolen, your quest to get it again kicks off a sport that goals to shock and shock at each flip. Half the sport includes musical battles in opposition to 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 battle is a novel problem that matches the character you are preventing and the music that is taking part in — and there is barely a dud monitor 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 may get very robust, and even on the simplest issue setting, it might probably nonetheless be a handful. We bumped into an unlucky bug that froze the sport utterly, and with guide saves solely, we misplaced an excellent chunk of progress — not enjoyable when the late-game fights get this tough.

Whereas the primary sport has an understated retro look, the presentation explodes in among 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’s an possibility within the settings to cut back the visible noise, although it would not eliminate every thing.

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