As a matter of fact, because they are that great, the rest of the game dims in comparison, and the imaginative level design might end up a bit on the repetitive side because not many new elements are being introduced on a regular basis. They involve multiple instances of creative camera work and continue to provoke your inner instincts and latent awareness about how you approach the games you play and how you look at the elements on screen. Each boss’s body type acts as a microcosm of platforming tests and challenges that you will have to figure out and and adapt to their varied approaches during the limited time you have on the backs of the 6-7 giants you will encounter throughout your journey. You have to grab the tail or back end of each boss depending on its shape or form, and drag your self as fast as you can until the head piece where the weak point lies to deliver the killing blow. Only this time the pattern is about reaching the boss’s weak point, and not avoiding getting hit until that weakness appears. They are not actually fights per se, but more like these Sonic Adventure game bosses where you have to repeat a certain pattern for three times and you win. I find it really amazing that it was able to stretch and strengthen this approach for four hours straight without the whole thing becoming stale, even during boss encounters. Solar Ash is simply an experience that is fun to play all the time, and relies completely on your instinctive understanding of the mechanics above anything else. You are always on the path, You don’t have to think about anything, and every enemy you meet can be used as a step to push forward or adjust the trajectory of your jumps and dashes using grapple hooks and instant teleportation. That’s what I think differentiates this game from the most. You are allowed to skate, dash, grapple, execute simple attacks, hold on to walls, grind on rails and teleport instantaneously to designated locations and enemies, but the difference is that all of this is designed to enable you to always be on the move in a continuous and seamless manner, without any reserves or second thoughts. The movements available might appear basic at first, but that’s not the whole case. What you see during the first hour is what you will be having during all four hours of your playthrough, with exceptions for the changing variety of the biomes and the unique boss encounters.
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For those who have no patience to witness all of what this game has to offer, you need not worry because every technique at your disposal is available from the beginning, and without any upgrade paths or costs. The mechanics also support of the philosophy of traversing through shattered dimensions. Therefore, we embark on an Odyssey through the interconnected remaining realms, and use every mean at our disposal in order to figure out the best way to fulfill our purpose, while learning about a meaningful message by the end of everything. Your mission is to look for and activate the “ Starseed“, a device so powerful and capable of reverting the worlds to their proper state, after reverting into shadows of what they once were. This is not exactly the case here as a mysterious black hole has consumed various worlds and incorporated many parts of what’s left of them to make it’s own unique biosphere. In general, the stories of these platformer games are almost always detached from what actually happens on screen, like you find them talking about some really big issues and worlds, but all you are doing in the literal sense is running and jumping around.
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Solar Ash is now available on PS5 (Tested), PS4 and PC. On the other hand, Solar Ash is mainly a game about traversal first, and fighting second, unlike it’s predecessor, Hyper Light Drifter, which was focused mainly on the energy sword and it’s upgrades and expansions. The game has a distinct art style that blends very well with the idea of a broken scattered world, and also fulfills its purpose in creating many challenging platforms for traversal with a great degree of verticality and vastness. Solar Ash is easily summed up if you think back to the memory of the Phalanx fight (The sky dragon colossus fight) in Shadow of the Colossus, and say: What if there was a whole game made about that particular fight? This is exactly what studio Heart Machine is trying to do with this new experience, by giving shape to this beautiful memory in amazing ways only achievable through the new generation hardware.
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