Aluna: Sentinel of the Shards - Review

Gaming Nexus the action RPG checked out Aluna: Sentinel of the Shards:

Aluna: Sentinel of Shards

Our heroine is Aluna, a young woman whose conquistador father saves the Earth Goddess Pachamama. In return they have a daughter together, and now Aluna is being sent back to her roots to help aid her mother in a time of turmoil. Aluna finds herself running through jungles, caves filled with ghost pirates, seaside docks, and volcano temples to collect shards to bring power back to her mother Pachamama (who can’t be bothered to wear anything other than vines.) All the staples of the genre are represented; looting, leveling, piles of baddies to mow down with a magic spell. Aluna doesn’t bring anything distinctive, but it doesn’t do a disservice to the genre either.

The story is simple one; find the stolen and missing shards, heal the earth mother Pachamama, who also happens to be to your actual mother, and defeat the ultimate evil, that sort of mess. The story isn’t gripping, but the cutscenes are. Every now and then you get to watch a cutscene played out in the style of a comic. They look great, and it's a letdown that the developers didn’t include more of them, instead choosing to go with in game engine cutscenes.

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Simply put, Aluna: Sentinel of the Shards is your typical action adventure RPG. Zones are fun and unique enough to satisfy. But the frame rate dips so low at times that it’s easy to become frustrated. There’s nothing eccentric here, and that’s ok. Not every game about saving the world has to be, I guess.

Rating: 7.4/10 Above Average