Eternights

It’s amazing to see such a passionate debut title from Studio Sai. Eternights elegantly blends in addicting and engaging action combat with dating mechanics while providing beautiful visuals and excellent voice acting. I can’t wait to see what’s next from this small team of developers.

Mixing Persona with real-time combat, Eternights delivers a robust package with charming characters, intimate romance, quirky writing, vibrant visuals, and an engaging gameplay loop. Despite it's flaws, Eternights makes a valiant effort in being one of the many games you will enjoy this year, and is a must play for RPG fans.

Eternights may not be a game-changer for the genre, but it still offers a solid experience, thanks to a strong cast of characters and an engaging gameplay, especially in its dating sim aspect. It caters to a very specific audience and will likely thrive within its niche; however, if you have even a remote interest in this genre, we recommend giving it a chance: you won't regret it.

Eternights is a true labor of love from a small team of developers that set out to create something for themselves. It just so happens that it’s also one of my favorite games of 2023. If you can look past the juvenile character moments and flimsy early plot devices, you’re in for an awesome experience that delivers quality action combat, hilarious character skits, and a very strong final Act. It’s an experience I won’t soon forget and one that doesn’t demand too much from players to play till the credits. The wait for this release was genuinely worth it, and I’m happy to see this ambitious project come together so brilliantly.

Eternights' great success is that it manages to be more than the sum of its parts. The witty writing papers over the shakier aspects of the storytelling, the slight combat is used sparingly enough that its flaws rarely frustrate, and above all, it's got an undeniable charm despite its rough edges. We're swiping right on this one.

Part of my interest in independent titles involves viewing the art form without the overwhelming gloss. Eternights has that gloss, which is an accomplishment in its own right, but when you peel that away, you just find something that seems a bit bland and lifeless. Certainly, not a night you’ll remember. You’d probably be better off just keeping your hand.

As dating-centered RPGs go, we know a spot, and it's not here. [Issue#390, p.136]

Been looking for a game like this for years. One of the funniest games I’ve played as well as great gameplay. Can not wait for the sequel. 10/10.

I like Eternights, fun story, nice art style, mechanics interacting with your companions is interesting. What I don't like is the combat, its too simple and the perfect dodge window is some of the highest order of bul1sht3ry I've ever encountered sometimes the dodge simply won't trigger, other times you'll still get hit even when you know you hit the dodge button in perfect timing. The window itself for a perfect dodge is also extremely small.. maybe 0.2 seconds, and thats on "Normal" difficulty, and a lot of the time enemies will just whack you with an insta-move that you can supposedly dodge but that window is so narrow you'll only hit it through a fluke, not skill or measured movements. The game also commits a cardinal sin - interrupting any momentum you're building with tutorial windows and QTE's. A good game then, especially for one thats a first foray from the developers but even for a first try how they thought breaking momentum with tutorial windows mid-fight and QTE's was alright I'll never know and fk the god damn "bike" minigame, if anything causes you to rage quit eternights and never return, it will be the bike minigame.

Garip bir jrpg deneyimiydi. Oyun bir persona çakması, romance sistemi daha iyi olabilirdi, combatı bir tık zayıf, ortalama üstü bir oyun.

Sería injusto comparar este juego con Persona 5. Sería muy injusto decir que tiene una historia mucho peor que la de P5, personajes más simples que los de P5, y una jugabilidad a años-luz de lo que se puede disfrutar en la Obra Maestra de Atlus. Sería muy injusto, sí, así que solo diré que es algo aburrido, y que si no le pongo menos nota es gracias a su humor. Me he reído mucho.

The game has a lot of the core features down solid. The story itself is both interesting enough and the characters are enjoyable enough to want to complete. That being said, I could not. It is interesting that even all this time after the original digital release they couldn't fix the game enough. I might have been able to smash my head against the problem long enough to get through it, but then the rest is just so underwhelming. The fight portion of the game is easily the worse part of the game. There's a lot of fun RPG elements held back by some of the worst visuals in any game released in a long time, and just the usual pushing the same buttons you get with action RPGs. The game is also incomprehensibly dark. Perhaps this is to hide the poorly designed 3D models in game, but it hinders the game as a whole when you can't see anything happening. I can see this is an indie developer which is honestly the real reason I rated a game I wont even complete higher than a 1. Looking forward to seeing more from the developer though, and despite my issues with the game I look forward to seeing what the developer can do in the future and hoping they mad enough to improve on those core principals.