Posted on: July 10, 2023
PookaMustard
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Neat little metroidvania
Alwa's Awakening is pretty good as just a little, NES-inspired metroidvania game. The controls are simple and tight, swing with the staff to hit enemies, use spells you find in the game's world to help you get to inaccessible areas. Really, the only problem at this point is that the main character, Zoe, doesn't run that fast. The plot is also simple: Vicar took over the land of Alwa, stole its holy artifacts and handed them over to the Protectors. Nearly 200 years later, Zoe gets summoned into the land to defeat the bad guys. This is not the game if you want deep lore, backstory, character development and the likes, but pretty neat due to its NES-like brevity. The horizontal middle of the map is Alwa's plains, while everything above and below are dungeons, which are progressively more difficult than the last. You'll be able to traverse most of them without problem, but some rooms use killer spikes which can send you back to the nearest checkpoint - not much of a big problem... until you show up to the final dungeon, which is mercilessly brutal and a major difficulty spike. The map is pretty huge when combined with Zoe's slow walking speed, so there are warps in most locations, and even then, expect to walk a bit if you have a specific room in mind. The slow travel is mostly why I took a star off. Oh, not only is the music catchy and actually made in FamiTracker (which is a program that produces NES sounds and music), but also it's available as a NES ROM, for free, from Elden Pixel's website. What a banger. Finally, the game has a few secrets to investigate! They include cryptic hints, hidden rooms, items that (seemingly) do nothing, and mysterious stuff. They don't actually add to the gameplay, but it's fun to learn about or do the tremendous task of making sense out of them. Check your GOG library, chances are you already got the game for free. If you haven't, the game goes on sale for very cheap and worth a try if you're into NES-style metroidvanias.
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