AereA

 PlayStation 4
User Score
4.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 7 out of 16
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  1. naterose1
    Jul 26, 2017
    0
    Don't buy. It's broken, glitched, and unplayable at a certain point (there's a 30 min boring dungeon crawl, at the end of which features a beta-acknowledged but unfixed bug that makes a boss virtually unkillable).
    There is a bug in 2 player mode where 1 character auto attacks and can't be stopped.
    There are pointless items and no way to tell what your items do, no way to manage the    Don't buy. It's broken, glitched, and unplayable at a certain point (there's a 30 min boring dungeon crawl, at the end of which features a beta-acknowledged but unfixed bug that makes a boss virtually unkillable).
    There is a bug in 2 player mode where 1 character auto attacks and can't be stopped.
    There are pointless items and no way to tell what your items do, no way to manage the inventory. The characters and powers are interchangeable, there is 1 tank and 3 range fighters who are essentially reskinned versions of the same combat type. There are glitches that force your character out of combat and into unpassable zones. There are side quest bugs which make you repeat quests, or don't acknowledge when you complete them. Walking around is slow, and boring. The world is bland. I got so frustrated with this game when I realized even kicking open treasure crates became tedious. (You have to hit them 3 times before they break, and they rarely drop useful items - health potions are rare, but you'll get plenty of status effect potions when you don't need them).
    I could go on and on about everything wrong with this game. Point is, I bought this thinking it would be a fun introductory dungeon crawler for my young son, and I was so disappointed. It broke my heart to see the fun sapped from the experience within minutes. I tried to tough this out, but after about 10 hours and getting to the aformentioned unkillable boss, gave up. I preordered this being pretty impressed with the aesthetic of the game, but after so many hours of being infuriated at having to reset the game due to stupid glitches which should have been fixed in a beta update, I decided I will never buy another SOEDESCO game again. I am an avid gamer, I've played PC, console, arcade, etc for 30 years. I have played great games. I have played terrible games. Trust me when I tell you, for the money, this was unequivocally the worst gaming experience of my life.    … Expand
  2. Chipzahoy
    Sep 12, 2019
    3
    The game looks aesthetically pleasing, and has good music. But nothing else about this game is good. The game is ridiculously easy as the enemies do not scale in difficulty. After beating the game, I used my level 1 character in one of the final dungeons and was 1 shot killing the enemies. Game has lots of glitches that years later are still not fixed. I played the entire game couchThe game looks aesthetically pleasing, and has good music. But nothing else about this game is good. The game is ridiculously easy as the enemies do not scale in difficulty. After beating the game, I used my level 1 character in one of the final dungeons and was 1 shot killing the enemies. Game has lots of glitches that years later are still not fixed. I played the entire game couch co-op. When player 1 wants to go into the menu, they will start auto attacking once they come out of the menu. The only way to stop it is to have player 2 go in/out of the menu. Other glitches involve getting stuck behind doors, same enemies that go from 1 hit kills to impossible to kill, lock doors not unlocking to halt your adventure and if you kill a boss TO quick the game won't recognize it and you will be stuck. Most of the dungeons are completely empty, especially the concert halls which take almost 40 minutes to run through and you might fight at most 5-6 rats. Puzzles are pathetic, move a box on top of a switch that is 2 feet away. The game definitely feel incomplete. An extremely boring, glitchy, and below average game. Got this on the PSN for $5.00 and still not worth it.… Expand

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46

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 6 out of 10
  1. DarkStation
    Sep 26, 2017
    40
    It is too bad that what was good about AereA did not ultimately find a better game in which to reside. It is a bad game, but it is one that does not feel like a soulless cash grab. On the other hand, it is also not a game that stumbles because it is overly ambitious or because it banks on one or two game mechanics that just don’t work. It is a game that sets a low bar for its gameplay and then fails to hurdle it. It is hard to tell what, exactly was the goal of developer Triangle Studios when they developed this game, which is far too simple and repetitive to compete with any action RPG produced in the past 20 years. What is easy to conclude, however, is that AereA is not good, and regardless of your interest level in action RPGs or classical music, you will likely not enjoy it.
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  2. Eurogamer Italy
    Aug 13, 2017
    40
    Quotation forthcoming.
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  3. SpazioGames
    Jul 26, 2017
    45
    Aerea is too simple and repetitive to be considered a good game. There aren't changes of the rhythm of the gameplay and the game lacks its own identity.
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