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Astor: Blade of the Monolith is a solid entry into the ARPG genre with simple yet effective mechanics and combat that make it a recognizable and worthwhile experience.

En definitiva, y cerrando con este análisis de Astor: Blade of the Monolith. Os tengo que decir que como juego de acción en tercera persona con tintes roleros es una experiencia más que gratificante y bien acabada en muchos sentidos. Dejándose caer sobre una bien tratada narrativa. Un bien planteado sistema de combate. Y unos buenos matices roleros. Todo ello acompañado de un notorio trabajo en el apartado gráfico, sonoro, y artístico en general.

Overall, Astor: Blade of the Monolith is shaping up to be an absolutely amazing RPG, aside from that one major flaw with combat. If you can look past the issue at hand, there’s a magical world that’s just waiting to be explored and secrets to discover throughout its rich story, and let’s not forget the mountains of side quests just waiting to be conquered. There’s without a doubt great potential and with a few minor changes or some extra polish, this game can easily become a hidden gem.

Astor: Blade of the Monolith reflects one of the coolest aspects of video games as a medium with a deep history of iteration. You can take a familiar set of concepts, add new context, and come up with something that stands on its own rather than feeling like a ripoff. Astor does this with an impressive sense of knowledge and understanding of not only Zelda-style exploration, but character action-style combat. The latter is much more niche and specialized, therefore harder to pull off. It’s not quite a bullseye, but gets respectfully close and has me curious about further updates, as well as what this studio does next.

Astor: Blade of the Monolith is a great introduction to the Soulslike mechanics that dominate ARPGs right now. I can see it appealing to younger or novice gamers. It’s family-friendly, colorful, and pretty satisfying to play. More hardcore action fans will probably find it too familiar and not quite as polished as their favorites. Overall, Astor: Blade of the Monolith brings together a collection of tried-and-true mechanics in a pretty satisfying way.

Astor: Blade of the Monolith just doesn’t do enough to make it stand out as an unmissable experience. It’s a good game, sure, but with so many other hack-and-slashing adventures to embark on, it needed to do a bit more to stand out in the crowd.

Astor: Blade of the Monolith is an action game with a nice combat system, but unfortunately it tends to repeat game situations a little too often during the approximately 15 hours needed to reach the end credits.

Astor: Blade of the Monolith is a decent, old-school action RPG that is enjoyable but could have been more innovative.

Despite the uneven combat, Astor can be a fun time. Once you’ve got yourself a mount to make exploration faster and you’ve unlocked a good selection of weapons, finishers, and special attacks, it becomes a much more enjoyable affair than the opening hours would have you expect. Those who chase big damage numbers might also appreciate the combo counter, which adds an extra dimension to the combat. It’s not a bad game by any measure, but it doesn’t really do an awful lot to stand out from the crowd.

Astor: Blade of the Monolith isn't too different from its counterparts. It suffers from minor and rarely major glitches but is a fun, simple experience at its core.

Astor: Blade of the Monolith has a certain charm and fun element to it, but the game's simplistic combat and repetitive foes take away from the overall excitement.

Astor: Blade of the Monolith feels like a game that needed a few more months to cook. The gameplay is underdeveloped, there are multiple bugs, and and the plot really could’ve done with some punching up. While this adventure has potential for improvement, but it’s very difficult to find reasons to recommend it in its current state.