From The Hip Men are on a roll when it comes covering independent titles. Today Greg and Lee bring us a great playthrough of Aaru’s Awakening. Aaru’s Awakening is a hand-drawn, fast-paced action platformer. The game puts players in charge of Aaru, a mythical creature with two unique abilities teleportation and charging. He uses these abilities as he travels through the dangerous world of Lumenox to defeat an evil entity.
These two abilities are at the heart of every level design throughout the game, to make for a challenging and fluid experience. The levels require players to make split second decisions whilst completing fast-paced puzzles.
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