The people of Heryon are fighting a losing battle against an alien group that originally came in peace. As if the war is bad enough, now there is a horrible disease, the Corrosion, that is turning the people into horrible creatures. Soldier Daryon and his sister Selene are now a quest to find the cure for the Corrosion before it kills anyone, including their mother.

Midgar Studio’s Edge of Eternity is a turn based RPG with strategy elements available on PS5, PS4, Xbox one, and soon to be on the Switch. You play as Daryon, a soldier who makes it his personal mission to cure the Corrosion after it killed a couple of his friends, and has now infected his mother. As Daryon and his comrades, you will be fighting monsters and giant robots that are being sent by the alien invaders in turn based combat. 

Edge of Eternity has a unique battle system that is a combination of turn-based fighting and strategy. You can move your characters around the battlefield to position them in the perfect spot to attack the enemy or avoid their magic attacks. You can also break an enemy and stop it from casting a spell with a simple attack. Some battles have a special objective such as “kill all enemies with one skill only”, if you complete the objective you can get cool stuff like crystals and experience!  

The scenery stays the same during battle and regular running around, which means you can interact with certain things on the field to help you in battle. This gives Edge of Eternity a cool interactive battlefield that is not seen in many other games. It also means that there may be random villagers hanging out while you fight that refuse to help out. The heathens.  

Not really into challenging games and prefer to just enjoy a fun story? Or maybe you want a serious challenge!  Edge of Eternity allows you to customize how easy or hard you want to make the game with things like being able to teleport to places, saving anywhere,  and even how difficult the battles are. I personally like easy games where I can enjoy a couple battles and a fun story and not rage quit and fling my controller at the TV!   

You can farm for items to craft and buy items as well, but leveling up items is done using crystals you buy, find, or receive from battles. You have to pick the route you want to level up, and you cannot start another route till you complete the one you started, so keep this in mind when leveling up. There are tons of side quests as well all throughout the game that will get you cool stuff and much needed money.

Edge of Eternity starts out fast then goes pretty slow then gets fast again! You get bombarded with the crazy war storyline, then you are thrown to the open world to explore and get to learn the battle system – a nice tutorial is included. You eventually get into the main story and even pick up some new party members.  

The only trouble I had with Edge of Eternity was the interactive battlefields. For boss fights especially, you are supposed to use the items and artillery that are around the field. This was a bit tricky to figure out. Even though there was a tutorial when you first start, I still had a couple issues figuring out how to use the weapon or item, and where exactly to position it.

The storyline is very sad (since it’s a war with a horrible disease involved) with bits of humor thrown in to make you feel a little better. Daryon starts out a bit negative and cranky which is annoying. Fortunately he and the other characters start to show development as the game goes on. And you get to ride around on huge creepy/adorable cat things to there’s that!

Overall, I found Midgar Studio’s Edge of Eternity to be a very different and divergent experience. The combination of strategy and turn-based combat with unique features that help you in battle, the use of crystals to improve stats and weapons, and the ability to adjust the difficulty to your liking is what makes the game so cool and interesting. I give it 4 and half outta 5 baby dragons. 

Edge of Eternity is out now today on Switch, PC, Xbox, and Playstation for digital download at $29.99. Physical copies for Playstation $39.99. For more info check out https://www.eoegame.com/. Stop the Corrosion!!