・Battle against a large assortment of different enemies, giant monsters, and epic bosses! Choose the right hero to find the weaknesses of the creatures that stand in your way! ・Switch between your heroes and utilize the unique abilities of a warrior, archer and wizard to progress through the game. ・Play at your own pace - explore thoroughly and build your characters strengths, or use risky methods to slice your way up the tower furiously! ・Original character design by Ryusuke Mita, creator of world-famous manga Dragon Half! ・Relive the glory days of 8-bit action-adventure through beautifully detailed, authentic pixel art set in a dark, fantastic world! Astalon features the progressive exploration of an interconnected world with the swiftness and quick rhythm of a room-by-room action platformer. Discover the countless secrets of the Tower of Serpents! Strengthen your party and change their fate by embracing death. Follow a story about friendship and sacrifice, building up the courage to take down giants to protect the weak and powerless. Slay terrible monsters, discover powerful artifacts, and solve fiendish puzzles, reaching new heights in the tower with the aid of a Titan. But what fate lies in store for the heroes and their village?Īstalon: Tears Of The Earth is an action-platformer set in a dying world where life is cruel, but death can be a stepping stone to victory! Use the unique skills and weapons of Arias the fighter, Kyuli the rogue, and Algus the wizard, to surmount the mysterious tower and find the answers to their survival. In order to ensure their victory, one of them has made a secret pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus, allowing them to reincarnate until they have accomplished their mission. They soon find a dark, twisted tower that has risen from the depths of the planet and seemingly holds the key to their survival. Three heroic explorers wander the post-apocalyptic desert on a mission to save their village from despair. Some of them are only concealing stashes of orbs or optional enemies, but others are hiding keys or secret doors that must be found to advance.Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom! Keep an eye peeled for invisible switches and cracked stones. There are secret passages everywhere and they aren’t marked on the map. One of the best and most frustrating elements of this game is the hidden secrets. Fortunately, the map color codes rooms where you can swap out party members. While monsters respawn after your death-and every time you exit a room, for that matter-puzzles remain solved, bosses remain slain, and you keep any keys you picked up. Each character has different abilities that can counter specific obstacles, meaning you have to regularly switch between them to advance. As you explore and slay monsters, you gather the souls of the dead in the form of blue orbs, which you can trade with Epimetheus for permanent power-ups. Upgrades range from increased damage to health bonuses to the ability to automatically absorb orbs. The 8-bit soundtrack and sound effects that might as well have jumped directly out of an old-school arcade machine help create an atmosphere that’s equal parts nostalgic and unsettling.ĭying means putting the dungeon-crawling on pause for a bit while you renegotiate terms with the Titan of Death. The cast, with their huge eyes and stylized armor, wouldn’t look out of place in the original Puyo Puyo or even Madou Monogatari games. The character design draws heavily on 80s and 90s anime. It really feels like the Tower itself hates you. This contrasts sharply with the genuinely ominous environments and off-putting enemy designs that range from oversized insects to twisted cyclopes to rotting corpses. Rest sequences help to establish the bonds between the main cast just as the post-death upgrade conversations help to establish the friction between Algus and Epimetheus. Algus doesn’t let the grim fate awaiting him stop him from complaining to-and gossiping with-Epimetheus, the monstrous Titan of Death that will inevitably claim his soul. The game manages to create a truly creepy tone, but the writing is at once simple, deeply affecting, and surprisingly funny.
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