Airoheart

Critic reviews

• RRPGFan

  Neal Chandran · Oct 25, 2022

  6.7

  Airoheart is a pale imitation of the game it strives to be and could have benefited from more polish and flair. Unfortunately, any glimmers of potential are buried under flawed design and general mediocrity. The biggest flaw is undoubtedly Airoheart’s lack of identity. In its effort to be Zelda, Airoheart never had a chance to be Airoheart.

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• XTXbox Tavern

  Jake Plant · Oct 17, 2022

  7.4

  Airoheart is one of the better Zelda-likes I have played and working my way through the game has been a trip down memory lane. It borrows so much from the Link to the Past formula, but also adds in plenty of its own ideas and mechanics.

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• GGameSpew

  Kim Snaith · Oct 13, 2022

  7.0

  Airoheart feels like the tougher, adult version. Enemies are more relentless, and you’re up against tougher adversaries more quickly. Even tiny enemies you’d assume to be harmless – like wasps, springing out from bushes you strike with your sword – can take a big chunk of your health from you.

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• PSPush Square

  Robert Ramsey · Oct 05, 2022

  5.0

  Airoheart's, er, heart is in the right place — and it is an okay Zelda clone overall — but the game's got noticeable flaws.

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• NNintendoLife

  Mitch Vogel · Sep 24, 2022

  5.0

  The music, meanwhile, is far less memorable, consisting of a series of generic and repetitive 16-bit chiptunes that are just kind of there. At the very least, this soundtrack doesn’t get in the way of one’s enjoyment of the gameplay, but it feels like there was a missed opportunity here to integrate audio that could elevate and help shape the overall experience to a greater degree.

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• TTheXboxHub

  Dave Ozzy · Oct 24, 2022

  6.0

  Die in a dungeon and the levels reset, putting the puzzles and enemies back where they were, so there’s punishment here too. You can feel bullied playing Airoheart. The bullying diminishes over time, but it hurts most when you’re finding your feet, giving Airoheart an odd backwards difficulty curve.

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