History teaches us that the Aztec Empire faded into history leaving us in the dark about its culture and technology, but WHAT IF the empire never fell and continued to flourish into the future? And what was thought to be myths, were real? In Aztech Forgotten Gods we get a glimpse into that world! I want to thank the game’s developer Lienzo for the opportunity to review this!
The Story of Aztech Forgotten Gods follows an Aztec woman named Achtli who comes into possession of the Lightkeeper, an Aztech artifact and prosthetic arm that gives Achtli powers and connects her mind with a feathered serpent god called Tez. After activating the Lightkeeper and awakening Tez, Achtil unknowingly kickstarted potential apocalyptic events where giant monsters appear in the city and she must defeat them, all the while unlocking the truth about the mysterious “Institute” her mother works for, her own past and destiny, and Tez’s past as well.
Now onto the game itself! The game’s controls are not that difficult to master and with the help of tutorials you can learn them quickly. When it comes to the game’s soundtrack, it’s actually pretty good as there are some nice metal riffs in it at times. The art is amazing in this! I love how the characters look with Aztech fashion being blended with futuristic fashion and the Disneyesque appearance of the characters themselves.
actual screenshot from the in-game photo mode
The one thing I did not like about Aztech Forgotten Gods is the lack of voice acting as the game appears to be heavily cut scene and dialogue-driven story. What made this annoying was that the text dialogue occurs in the middle of combat, unless you’re a chameleon and have the ability to have one eye on the action while the other reads, it’s difficult to do both, and find myself ignoring what’s being “Said”, which is why I feel that this should have had voice acting.
As mentioned before this game appears more of a cutscene/dialogue-driven narrative where I feel I’m spending more time reading than playing as I sit through moments of written dialogue at one point, then I have to move to another point where there’s more dialogue to read. Don’t get me wrong, I like to read, but the amount of reading in this is a bit ridiculous.
Overall Aztech Forgotten Gods is a decent game, especially for an indie title. On my scale of 1-10 I give it a 6 as while the art and design of the game’s characters and enemies are amazing, the lack of voice acting with a novella’s worth of subtitles that even go on during combat takes some of the fun out of the experience.
Aztech Forgotten Gods release digitally on March 10th for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.
