Jackelyne can also use collected containers to slow time and give her more of it to get to the exit.Īs you progress through the game, levels begin to throw new obstacles and trials your way to mix things up. You can jump, wall jump, attack, and slide on top of the ability to teleport through tight areas and energy fields. Outside of that, this is your standard action platformer. What makes Aeon Drive special is its combination of two interesting ideas: Your dagger can teleport you short distances and you only have 30 seconds to finish each level. Like I said, this is a very simple story, but it gives Jackelyne purpose and drive, which caused me to see her through these missions. It is nice that Aeon Drive gives proper attention to its protagonist and even takes the time to develop her character and gives you reason to care about her. The banter between the two of them is really fun, although Jackelyne does start to repeat the same lines over and over again after a while. Jackelyne is a fun character, and her dagger has a great little personality as well. This is a simple and effective narrative to make sense of what is happening on screen. However, she crash-lands her spaceship into the middle of a bustling metropolis called Neo Barcelona. Equipped with her power sword, teleportation dagger, and unique skill to control time, Jackelyne has to find all the Drive Cores to fix her ship so she can go home, as well as save the city from an apparent impending doom. This was particularly frustrating as this specific mechanic was never introduced in the tutorial but was absolutely necessary in order to complete the final levels of the game.You play as Jackelyne, a young space ranger from another dimension, and she is desperately trying to get home. While many of them are great, one variety of those puzzles presented a huge headache, which were switch puzzles that required VERA to remain on the switch for a door to open - teleporting back to her would just reset the player. While most stages had alternate paths to keep this from getting egregiously bad, one stage in the final level was impossible until, after playing with the controls, the realization hit that there is an input that can recall VERA rather than just teleport to her. In later stages, VERA is used in more interesting ways such as solving door and switch puzzles. However, using VERA for horizontal and diagonal movement feels great and, after a few successful teleports, will naturally put players into a really satisfying flow state. Throwing VERA is also just as frustrating as it is satisfying, as there are moments when Jack must throw VERA directly above her in order to get through a laser wall, but there isn't enough hangtime after teleporting to comfortably avoid falling back down on said wall. Jack moves well for the most part, but definitely has some hiccups here and there, such as inconsistent detection which makes wall-jumping a gamble at times. Her most important tool is VERA herself, as Jack can throw her to different places and teleport to her, destroy enemies, and bypass certain obstacles like laser walls. There are also small dimensional drives scattered across each level that will extend the time by 5 seconds for every four that are collected, which can often make the difference between success and failure. First and foremost, Jack is agile and has a sword which lets her quickly dispatch robotic enemies, which are more of an obstacle than they are a threat. In gameplay, each stage has a 30 second timer in which to complete it and Jack has plenty of tools to help her do just that. Related: Guardians of Hyelore Review: Good In Short Bursts
To save the city, they need to retrieve all six, but they only have 30 seconds before they go critical luckily VERA can create a small time-pocket to extend that time. They get pulled into Earth's orbit and crash-land in the cyberpunk city of Neo Barcelona, which VERA quickly realizes is close to destruction thanks to a chain reaction being caused by unstable dimensional drives. Jack and her robot companion VERA escape their dimension in order to flee from a galactic war and arrive in "our" dimension.
Aeon Drive's story is more of a framing device than it is an actual narrative.
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