The demo for Of Love and Eternity is a wonderful, eerie experience
Innocent Swedish girl gets completely destroyed by little angry man
It's not often that a game starts right after your character has just been murdered. In the demo for Of Love and Eternity, a "stylistic dark fantasy horror adventure" that appeared on Steam earlier this month, players see their character floating aimlessly in a cosmic void of nebulous gas giants and stars before waking up, screaming, in the desiccated the shell of their mortal shell. It's one heck of a first impression, the kind that's only enhanced by the obvious care put into its visuals and environment.
Created by São Paulo-based game developer Winston Powell, who goes by the name Acorn Bringer, Of Love and Eternity is a third-person action-horror game with a palpable melancholic atmosphere. Players assume the role of an undead knight who, after being killed by a tyrannical king and resurrected in a dungeon-like crypt in a purgatory forest, learns that his beloved is lost elsewhere in this realm. With nothing but a suit of armor and the burning azure light of his own soul to guide the way, the knight ventures into the dark wilderness of this world on a quest to reunite with her.
The demo spans the first act of the game and can be completed in about 15 to 20 minutes. I spent most of my time wandering the winding paths of a rainy, autumnal forest with only the flickering light in my character's chest and the occasional flashing flash of ominous red energy to signal my way forward.
