Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness

Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness

released on Sep 02, 2022

Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness

released on Sep 02, 2022

A 3D action-RPG based on the popular manga Made in Abyss.


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Took me 65 hours to beat.

I think it was overall really cool to get to explore and move around the Abyss and interact with the characters. The atmosphere in the areas is very nice accompanied with a great soundtrack that truly captures the feel of the abyss.

Gameplay-wise few of the areas are quite tedious and are extremely difficult to get through. Not to mention that you have to go through them multiple times.

The spawn rates of the enemies won't help this either. Whenever you try to climb a wall, a bunch of butterflies start spawning. Taking out those critters really wears down your weapons and stamina.

The weapons in this game have durability which means that if you are in a fight and you are out of weapons, you have no choice but to give up.

Also if you run out of hunger and don't have any food left, it means you cannot climb walls and you are pretty much screwed. If that's the case you can either load a save file or give up cave raiding with the risk of losing all your equipment.

You have to plan each delving carefully.

You will die a lot in this game. Some of the enemies will absolutely destroy you and some can push you to your death. Few of the enemies will kill you instantly making you pull your hair out.

They really tried to capture the lethal nature of the Abyss and succeeded in doing so.

The graphics aren't really anything to write home about. They get the job done, and they work.

This game is a little bit buggy. Once I was forced to wait for an enemy's body to despawn because I was stuck in a T pose inside the body after defeating it. Another time I was killed and fell on top of a mineable object and didn't die, so I was forced to load my save.

There's a short story mode with the main characters of the original story which I wished would have been longer. Then there's the "Deen in Abyss" mode where you get to customize your own character and will be able to delve to the bottom of the 5th layer of the Abyss and obtain a white whistle.

I think it was an absolute blast to be able to interact with the familiar characters and see the Abyss with my own eyes, which is the selling point of this game to be honest.

There are few post-game quests and a boss.

I think you should play this game if you're a fan of the Made In Abyss manga and/or anime.

MiA world is oppressive and extremely dangerous even for experienced people, the game being extremely clunky and not very intuitive somehow manages to portray that really well.
I'm also very nostalgic over licensed games that adapt a bit of the original story of an anime and add original stuff to make it longer.

This game's enjoyment for me ramped up as I got better equipment, so the slow and monotonous beginning was infuriating, constantly having to complete quests and grinding exp. But as soon as I made it through Blighttown, I mean the third layer, I found myself understanding and enjoying the game more. Its story is whatever, cool that it was overseen by the manga's author but the original story is leagues better by every merit.

such a disappointing experience. slogged through the hand holding tutorial hoping they would then let us actually play the game and explore the world but nope... thrown back into another mission based game.

Even though many of the design decisions left me scratching my head, ultimately my takeaway is that Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness is a satisfying experience for fans of survival style video games.

https://thethirstymage.com/2022/09/11/made-in-abyss-binary-star-falling-into-darkness-review/

Meh game, manga is peak though, Tsukushi Ahihito the goat fr fr.