Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan

I love this game. It has so much heart in it, from the graphics to the (stellar!) story and dialogue. Good music, and again, just a stunning tale that was told. You can tell there was a lot of love poured into the combat animations, too. Super impressed and would love to see more from these devs/their corner of the world.

Some of the more critical details: Sometimes there were graphical artifacts, small gameplay issues, and performance would lower when having the game open for too long. Also keep in mind that the aesthetics and resolution are more reminiscent of 2000's PC games rather than modern graphics- you'll enjoy the game much more if you let it be itself and not expect it to look modern. For completionists, I believe some of the achievements are bugged; still, managed to get all but two (due to bugs).

Regardless, as said before, I found this game worth playing and I'm glad it gets to tell its story.

I desperately want this game to become a series. Kiro'o Games don't give up on this amazing concept!

It's undeniably rough, but if you stick with it this is an impressively ambitious game with a unique, creative combat system that's fun to play. I'm looking forward to more from this studio.

I rather enjoyed this game. It certainly has flaws, but nothing that's too irritating and certainly nothing game-breaking.
The game is like an anime. There's a deep story (which is sorta a more complex version of the first Black Panther movie) that questions morality and realizing there is never any easy or right answers. It has lots of action with a variety of power-ups and abilities. There's an interesting cast of characters, a ton of world-building and lore, and finally some truly fantastic cut scenes.
You play as Enzo, who utilizes Aurion powers that give you different attacks and stat boosts. Eventually you can learn to fuse them to create probably around 20 different powers/abilities. By the end of the game you become an unstoppable beast with dozens of powers at hand to obliterate all who stand in your way.
In addition, your wife, Erine can aid you in battle as well, whether to heal or attack.
I had a lot of fun with it, and the story really gripped me.
I really wish this were an anime.
And there's just short of a billion achievements for people in to that.

I enjoyed the story, the setting and the artwork. The combat and platforming was good. It is what a good Avatar the Last Airbender game could look like.

I encountered a few bugs which crashed my game or dropped the frame rate. However this was solved by reverting to an early save.

If you are playing with the mouse and keyboard, it can be a bit fidgety with the movement controls (e.g. lining up to interact with an item or NPC).

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Text Review:
-The game has great African inspired architecture and style with a nice asymmetrical feel and somehow some of their weirder designs don't feel out of place (Remember bird jetpacks) but visually there are some issues such as edgy sprites when viewed from afar, limited animations (Especially during cutscenes) and while the powers look good, sometimes they can look like overlays
-The music is good and unique with African instrumentation (It's rare that anything sounds too familiar but the something silly is happening track for levity is perhaps too silly and the main combat track has a repetitive quality in that sections play twice before moving on to the next and the whole thing loops noticeably at the end if the battle lasts that long but I didn't mind it too much as the game isn't that long)
-Good, methodical combat (Arguably repetitive but once again the short length meant it doesn't outstay its welcome and the Steam page claims there's more you can tease from the combat system if you're better than I am) but you can easily get stunned or fall victim to a damage cascade but that's the price you pay for a loose feel that's actually a positive rather than negative.
-You also don't have to grind and can unlock and level up a whole lot of legacies that offer 3 different mostly elemental attacks each which is a nice spice (If they are reskins to an extent)
-The non-combat elements (Puzzles, platforming etc.) are decent but not amazing... they offer a change of pace and this game has one of the harder moral decisions in a video game I've had to deal with in a while (Bohiri's family)
-Great world-building and mature story that doesn't just bend to sentimentality (The brisk pace, stilted feel and some heavy-handed writing may detract from the quality though but that is harsh)
-The English localization also has its issues which can detract as well
-Also, the game does have a general feeling of unrefinement

Practical Concerns:
-Great value (R1.77/ $0.17/ £0.13 per hour for me)
-Kind of big (13.08 Gb)
-Surprisingly hard to run on the warhorse

Solo Play Very Fun