The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Review

In the Age of Safekeeping is an adventurer who is known by all as a truly great adventurer, and a man with a heart of gold. You see, when he was a baby, he was found under an old tree in the arms of a man who had recently passed. He was taken in by the town orphanage and 20 years later has become the man that everyone can depend on. It isn’t until the king needs assistance investigating a strange ruin that our hero’s real journey begins. In The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales you will take on the role of Elliot and will be tasked with different quests as the game progresses. There’s one small catch to the progression of the game, and that is that you’ll have to journey through time to truly unravel the mysteries that appear before you. You will journey through a total of 4 different ages, and although the maps might look similar the caves, ruins, towns, and more are going to be very different. You’ll have to use your skills to navigate through each age to truly conquer each of them.

Graphically this is a 2.5D game, and I have to say that it looked amazing. I played it on the Switch 2 and I didn’t have any complaints when it came to performance. You’re going to be facing off against all different types of enemies, and there’s quite the roster of characters that you’ll be interacting with. I will tell you this, if the character you’re talking to has art associated with their dialogue, you know that they are going to be important to the story. 

You’re also going to have quite the arsenal of weapons at your disposal. As you progress through the game you’re going to gain the ability to use seven different weapons and some of these weapons are going to be needed to unlock new areas (ie. bombs, hammer, bow and arrow… just to name a few). There are also spells that you’ll unlock during the game that will help you out in different ways. Actually the spells have a base version and then they also have an advanced version that you can unlock through challenges. Those challenges will help you gain health shards, new spells, and advanced versions of spells.  

It's a game full of twists and turns, where what you think you know you might get wrong, and what you do in the game might have major ramifications later in the game. I’ve got to be honest, I thought I had beaten the game a couple times before the game actually ended. The combat is in real time so you’re going to have to act and react quickly. If you bring up the wheel(s) for weapons, spells, or potions the game will pause, so you can get a respite that way, and I will fully admit it’s saved my bacon a couple of boss fights where if I had to try to drink a healing potion while everything was still going on I would have died. This game took right at 30 hours for me to truly beat, and for those who want to “run it back” there is a New Game+ option that will pop you back in with where you had to end the game. This is a solid game, I mean really solid game. I loved the story, I loved the combat (for the most part there were a couple of bosses that made me want to pull my hair out), and I definitely loved the sense of accomplishment when the “true ending” was revealed.