The Rivals of Aether 2 demo was made available online back on October 14 for a full week. This is being done in preparation of the full release on October 23, 2024 — tomorrow.
Needless to say, Rivals of Aether has turned out to be one of the more successful platformer brawlers that was seemingly inspired by the Super Smash Bros. series. In fact, the Super Smash Land “demake” acts as sort of a spiritual predecessor to the Rivals of Aether series, especially considering how Vaporeon from that fan game seemingly inspired Orcane.
Though the demo was only available for a brief period of time, Smash commentator Coney spent some time trying to understand which characters felt strong. It’s still early to determine a definitive tier list right now, but Coney has a few ideas on how the characters might be placed.
According to Coney, Zetterburn and Wrastor (the lion and bird) are potential candidates for best in the game right now. This is said to be an unordered tier list, so their power levels apparently feel roughly the same.
On the other hand, Loxodont and Forsburn (the elephant and hyena) are said to be noticeably worse than the rest of the roster, but Coney asserts that the game still feels relatively balanced so even these two still feel “good” in their own ways.
Of course, it should be mentioned that Coney was unsure about Orcane and Kragg’s exact positions. Needless to say, one of these characters could turn out to be even better than the best, or worse than the worst.
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