Our hero and Chani escape to a massive security bunker, and stay there for days before eventually deciding to leave their room and see who else might be in the bunker with them. In the opening act of the game, our protagonist goes to the city for a blind date with a girl he matched with on a mystery dating app – only for giant phantasmal walls to appear in the city and citizens across the globe to turn into infected beasts. The game excels at giving these characters personality, and making them feel likeable and relatable, but it’s the wider story beats where Eternights initially struggles.īeing inspired by the Persona series shouldn’t just mean that you’re an RPG with romancing characters – there’s a tone to the writing and pacing of Persona games where the characters’ circumstances develop slowly and realistically – Eternights races past that. There’s a really fun, casual sense of humour to these options, and while you usually only have two to choose from, at least one of them is always loaded with dead-pan sarcasm or disinterest that always added a fun punch to every conversation. The protagonist isn’t silent, and you’ve got frequent dialogue options you can choose from to give responses during dialogue. Chani is helping you set up a profile on a dating app to try and get some dates – something the two of them seem to have been struggling with for a while now. The stakes are low at the start of Eternights, but they couldn’t be higher for the protagonist and his pal Chani. Since its announcement, I’ve been excited to see how the promise of an action-adventure spin on the dating-sim stylings of Persona would come together, but my time with the opening hours of Eternights leaves me worried that it might not live up to those lofty aspirations. To no surprise, the game is heavily inspired by the increasingly popular Persona series, putting just as much emphasis on dating party members as it does on atmospheric dungeons and high-octane combat. Despite being an indie release from a fresh, fully-remote studio, Eternights is a game with all the visual flair and anime aesthetic of a veteran JRPG.
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