Love Eternal shines most in its pixel art, sound design, overall light horror mood, and clever platforming puzzles surrounding the gravity flipping mechanic. I was pretty bad at this game, so figure my 4-hour playtime is at the upper end of normal.

Feels wrong to criticize a precision platformer for being too hard, but I will say I never quite felt I got a handle of the character’s momentum when flipping, so I didn’t feel a big increase in skill as I progressed onto harder puzzles, just a lot of trial and error. The hitboxes for spikes also felt too large, all leaving some of the platforming feeling a little overtuned for my tastes.

It’s delightfully weird, and I’ll always give a thumbs up to an interesting precision platformer that saves my hands by keeping the runtime short.

Love Eternal shines most in its pixel art, sound design, overall light horror mood, and clever platforming puzzles surrounding the gravity flipping mechanic. I was pretty bad at this game, so figure my 4-hour playtime is at the upper end of normal. Feels wrong to criticize a precision platformer for being too hard, but I will say I never quite felt I got a handle of the character’s momentum when flipping, so I didn’t feel a big increase in skill as I progressed onto harder puzzles, just a lot of trial and error. The hitboxes for spikes also felt too large, all leaving some of the platforming feeling a little overtuned for my tastes. It’s delightfully weird, and I’ll always give a thumbs up to an interesting precision platformer that saves my hands by keeping the runtime short.