Love Eternal

Genre: Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

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Love Eternal is a challenging Platformer released in 2026 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The game places you in the role of Maya, a young white-haired girl wearing a red dress who finds herself in a strange and massive castle filled with dangerous traps, which she must escape using her ability to swap gravity.

The presentation here is deceptively good. It makes use of 2D pixel art that can looks simple in places, but has some really wonderful, fluid animation, and occasionally reveals intricate and creative designs. This is joined by a minimalist soundscape I wouldn’t call a soundtrack that underlines the creepy tone that flows throughout the game, with some elements that border on horror. The moment you see Maya’s father’s disembodied head grow long, thin spider legs before apologizing and excusing himself, you definitely get a real feel for the flavor of creepy this game is going for, and it definitely builds up curiosity about what exactly is going on here.

The gameplay is simple in its foundations: Maya can jump and can “flip” gravity upside-down. She has to set her feet on solid ground before she can flip gravity again, or touch a floating red gem to refresh this ability. In addition to this, she can flip switches, go through doors, and interact with select parts of the environment. And that’s about it.

With these simple mechanics, Love Eternal presents players with absolutely fiendish level design that pushes your platforming skills and your timing to the limit. One element of this that I think some players will love and many will absolutely hate is just how tricky it is to get the timing down right on mid-air gravity flips, as your momentum will continue to carry you in the direction you were going for a moment before the new source of gravity pulls you in the opposite direction, and this means that often you’ll have to flip gravity well before you need to actually change direction, and eventually the game will make you chain together these anticipatory gravity flips one after another, sometimes shaking up just how long you need to time out your gravity flip from one to the next.

For the sort of player who craves this sort of challenge, Love Eternal will surely be sublime, and its fiendishly-crafted level design will be seen as a massive asset rather than a liability. However, I believe most players will find themselves growing a dislike for pretty quickly, once it becomes clear that this game has every intention of demanding utter perfection from players that most will find more of an ordeal than a delight.

tl;dr – Love Eternal is a challenging Platformer where players take the role of a young girl trapped in a massive trap-filled castle and must use her gravity-flipping abilities to escape. This game has some absolutely fiendish level design and demanding gameplay that challenge-seekers will thrill in and everyone else will find too frustrating to struggle through. And while this game’s creepy presentation will fascinate and entice players, I don’t think it’s enough to push most players to stick with it through the grueling gameplay. Still, if you’re the right kind of masochistic player, I think you’ll absolutely love this.

Grade: B-

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