AeternoBlade may not move the genre forward in any way, but it's a fun little game for action enthusiasts. It has a deep combat system, just the right amount of RPG elements, and an engaging enough narrative to keep things moving. But it also could have been so much more, and for that reason, I wouldn't put it in the "must have" pantheon of Metroidvanias.
Joshua from SwitchEra.net writes: "If you asked me to describe, in one sentence, what AeternoBlade is all about, nothing about the gameplay would ever stand out. All I could say is, “It’s a game about a girl who wants revenge and has a blade that can wind back time.” Even then, that’s a fairly wordy sentence."
WTMG's Leo Faria: "It looks so dated and it plays so much like a game from nearly two decades ago that it doesn't provide people with a sense of nostalgia, but more like a sense of being really old right off the start."
Neocrisis - We had a chance to get a interview about AeternoBlade1.
