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Eternights (2023)

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In this gameplay video, Eternights can be rough at times, but reaching its great conclusion is still worth it.

Eternights, a hack-and-slash dating sim by Studio Sai, wears its Persona inspirations on its sleeve. When I played the game for the first time earlier this year at Summer Game Fest, I said its action combat felt flimsy and its characters seemed generic, though I was at least interested to see if those aspects would reach anything close to the depth of the games it draws from in the full release. Having now played the finished game, I’d say it doesn’t quite reach those same heights, but it’s clearly willing to take some big swings in the name of an emotional, incredibly effective climax. It’s just the minutiae that gets in its own damn way.

Set during a supernatural post-apocalypse, Eternights follows a group of teenagers trying to survive as the titular anti-aging drug turns its users into zombie-like creatures. Because your generic, unnamed, sad boy protagonist is very special, he is chosen by a god to act as her champion in the war that sparked this whole post-apocalypse. But that’s not why you’re here. You’re here to date the other survivors you meet who have also been gifted with superpowers. Credit where credit is due, Eternights has a pretty compelling cast of characters, even if the actual nuts and bolts of its writing isn’t much to write home about.

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Read more: https://kotaku.com/eternights-review-romance-options-dating-sim-studio-sai-1850818205

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