Sundered: Eldritch Edition

Sundered: Eldritch Edition is a high-quality atmospheric game with grind elements, drawing its inspiration from the works of G.F. Lovecraft. Intrigue arises from the first minutes of launch, but after ten minutes it seems that nothing interesting will happen, and this is where something happens that will make you nervous. At first glance, primitive metroidvania seems trivial to the point of disgrace, but after some time the realization comes that no one will let you sit in peace.

The storyline begins with the unsuccessful journey of the main character, the dark-skinned wanderer Ash: as they say, she walked, walked and came. More precisely, I found myself in an exciting and creepy parallel world. Ash, without really understanding the area, finds a magic crystal, which convinces her that from now on it is better for them to travel together, it will be safer for the girl, and in the end, she will be able to return home if she gains strength and passes the most difficult bloody tests.

It should be noted that the developers did their best with the graphics: pleasing to the eye, hand-drawn, brilliantly executed animation of the fictional world from the “maestro of horror.” Most of the places, except the very first, in this adventure look repulsive: a feeling of fear and helplessness accompanies gamers all the time. Various tasks await the player along the route “to nowhere,” from fights with monsters to collecting artifacts that increase the character’s characteristics. By the way, Sundreder has one distinctive feature: with the death of the hero and the beginning of a new episode, the locations change their appearance.