![]() ![]() For casual players it will eventually become a steep challenge as the difficulty does begin to skyrocket during the back half. It’s a game about running very fast and nailing every jump, slide, landing and teleport without missing a beat or putting a step wrong. But for those who feel the need to hoover up everything there’s enough of a reason to spend time exploring each stage.Īeon Drive is a good-looking, highly-addictive adventure that sets its stall out early and rarely deviates. Non-completionists probably won’t bother at all. You can adjust Jack’s hair and outfit colour (although she’s always red-themed in cutscenes), but other than that the collectibles are just something to aim for in each level. The top few spaces on the leaderboards are usually separated by milliseconds, but climbing them at all is a boost. As with any speed-run game, nailing a perfect run and shaving time off your previous score is a massive rush. And it’s not just a case of having to climb a leader board, either you must finish the level in 30 seconds or you’ll have to start it again.Īfter a while you get used to the dagger’s reach, and realise that you can also use it to teleport upwards, downwards or sideways to navigate the level faster. In some instances it does, as being a few finger-spans off can see you teleporting into walls, traps, laser grids or enemies. You’ll need to be close enough to your destination that the dagger can reach it, and precise enough that you won’t just teleport to your death.Īt first I struggled a little, and felt the dagger broke the flow of the levels. The dagger can be thrown in all directions, but has a limited range. There’s wall-jumping and sliding, of course, but that won’t get you past laser barriers and through tiny cracks in the walls. This one tool is the prime mechanic by which you’ll navigate New Barcelona. She’s armed with a sword for despatching foes, and a supercool dagger that creates a rift in dimensions and allows Jack to teleport to wherever she throws it. ![]() With enemies all around and deadly traps blocking your path, you’ll need to make use of Jack’s nimblenes and speed as well as her weaponry. This allows for a certain amount of dallying if you’re careful and precise enough, during which time you can dart around the rest of the level gathering up collectibles. Using them will increase the remaining time by 5 seconds. This time loop mechanic can only be manipulated by the cores she’s chasing down.Īeon Drive: An addictive speed-running platformer Aided by her trusty AI sidekick, Jack has just 30 seconds to get through each area and reach the teleporter at the end. It’s a lightning-fast platform game that demands sharp reflexes and heightened muscle-memory to overcome. To be fair to developers 2Awesome Studios, Aeon Drive is the kind of game that doesn’t require any context whatsoever. This is the context within which Aeon Drive justifies its speed-running shenanigans, and I’m 100% on board with it. With her ship in disrepair, Jack must now gather up all the errant drive cores scattered about the place before they explode and destroy half the planet. Daring space ranger Captain Jackelyne, or Jack, has crash-landed in the the cyberpunk megalopolis of New Barcelona. While the difficulty of this platformer might turn away some casual players, anyone willing to invest time into learning the tight mechanics and surprisingly responsive controls will have a chance at defeating any challenge they meet within Aeon Drive. It can sometimes feel overwhelming, near-impossible at times to complete a level, but the sense of reward that follows the completion of a stage is like no other. Armed only with incredible reflexes, a beautiful sword and an awesome dagger that allows you to teleport to its location, you’ll be tasked with guiding Jackelyn through a maze of hazards, in order to complete the level before the timer expires.Īeon Drive is a fast-paced action-platformer with a big emphasis on speed, and while there are plenty of time capsules that will grant you an extra 5 seconds, there is always another jump that needs to be perfectly timed or another enemy that needs to be taken out. ![]() 2Awesome Studio, along with developing a beautiful action-platformer, has created a speedrunner’s paradise. ![]()
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