Regaining your soul

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Aeterna Noctis is a punishing game. An indie metroidvania, you will find yourself hacking and slashing through a diversity of nighttime citizenry to achieve your goal of reclaiming godhood. However, not every journey goes according to plan, and yous will definitely die a handful of times. When you do, you volition lose your accumulated feel — and in order to reclaim it, you have to find it again. Here's how to reclaim your soul in Aeterna Noctis.

When you die, an orb with wings will appear at the exact location of your death (and if yous brutal into a pit, the soul will appear at the terminal ledge yous stood on.) If an enemy killed you, the soul will tether to that enemy. This will persist in the overworld no affair how many times you die.

To regain your soul, simply brand your way dorsum to where you died and walk over the Soul Orb. This volition immediately restore any experience you had before your expiry. This makes a so-chosen "corpse run" of vital importance if you happen to die carrying a lot of experience points, equally you demand that experience to progress further in the game. However, if you cannot reach your Soul at all, either due to difficulty or simply forgetting how to reach it, you lot can always pay the Reaper at the town a hefty set of coins to become information technology back. You do lose all of your experience when you lot do this, however, so be conscientious.