Now that 2020 is here we're having a little look ahead at some of the year's new games that have us intrigued.
I finally got round to playing Axiom Verge over the Christmas break, and it was such a pleasant surprise. This is a game which at first, like many other Metroidvanias, feels like a direct and blatant homage to Super Metroid, but piece by piece, pulls away and becomes its own thing.
What I loved most was the tone, and how things gradually unravelled. It was somehow more alien than Metroid; it was much dirtier and darker, more mysterious and disgusting. There are gross, pulsating walls made of bright pink flesh, huge caverns piled with greyed out corpses, and bizarre structures hanging above vast plains like Christmas tree decorations, all displayed in 16-bit splendor.
from Eurogamer.net
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