Gamertell Review: Eternal Eden for PC

As wonderful as the 3D, expansive and elite RPGs are, there’s something special about a classic JRPG. The midi music and the sprite based characters and environments remind you of a simpler time, when you’d wait years for a game, because there weren’t 50 similar ones also available, and when you’d get it, you’d play it for months.

Eternal Eden is an original game inspired by and based on those classic JRPGs. If you have fond memories of sitting in front of your SNES playing Final Fantasy II or Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, it may leave you feeling nostalgic.

Eternal Eden starts with a young boy named Noah finding himself in a dilapidated tower. Monsters are hiding in plumes of smoke, and a mysterious voice is talking to Noah, urging him forward. Once he reaches the end, the voice tells him he’s gone through the challenges better this time, and maybe he can be redeemed. He encounters the Serpent of Persuasion, a snake sinners must face and defeat. The snake defeats him.

Noah then wakes from the encounter in his own bed, though he retains a ring he found during the dream…