I wasn’t sure at first what I was getting myself into once I started playing Anodyne. However, after finishing my playthrough, its aesthetics and narrative outweighed whatever concerns I originally had prior. Anodyne is very Zelda-esque in terms of its top-down perspective, more in the lines of the Game Boy entries. You traverse through various areas while figuring out the mysteries behind the game’s world and story with the inventory at hand. The puzzles and bosses may not be as fleshed out but at the same time don’t hurt the game design either. The soundtrack on the other hand speaks for itself given of its haunting/eerie chiptune-like nature that helps elevate the already haunting/eerie nature of the game. Overall, if you love the Zelda series or any top-down classic/8-bit/16-bit/retro adventure game meshed with dark, subtle, and obscure aesthetics, Anodyne may be your type of game.
