Fading Echo is a simple but charming adventure, elevated by its excellent Brazilian Portuguese voice acting, fun elemental mechanics, and appealing visuals. While navigation can be frustrating due to repetitive environments and a lack of clear guidance, it's still an enjoyable experience that succeeds in what it sets out to do.

While Fading Echo appears like yet another action platformer, it quickly sets itself apart with its element manipulation features and intense gameplay mechanics. It’s fun to play, the comic book styles cutscenes are cool, and the abstract visual design will quickly grab your attention. It also helps that the game is very creative and it continues to throw things at the wall to see what sticks. If you’re into action platformers, this is certainly right up your alley. I felt that the game manages to introduce new audiences to this genre quite well, even if the combat does feel repetitive at times. The story is easy to ignore, and you can just focus on eliminating enemies and solving puzzles. Those are the true strengths of the game, and the title certainly knows that. Overall, Fading Echo managed to scratch the 3D platformer itch, with some amazing elemental powers and lots of intense moments.

The only criticism we would level at the game in this regard is that it is very easy to lose one's bearings in certain sections. There is no in-game map, nor any on-screen indicator showing the path to follow. We certainly wouldn't penalize this design choice out of hand—quite the opposite. The issue is that some environments look very similar to one another, and the path ahead is sometimes extremely well hidden. Triggering specific dialogue sequences helps signal when you are on the right track, but at times, getting lost takes nothing more than a momentary lapse in attention.