There used to be something but now there’s nothing, other than endless dunes covering the ruins of a lost civilization. The only signs of life are a few shrubs and a dying tree growing above a shallow spring, the last holdouts of nature in a land that’s actively hostile to survival. The desert is home to nothing but ghosts and tumbleweeds, and somehow against all hope a single person who just may be able to stave off the creeping sand’s near-inevitable erasure of everything that had been there before. While the tiny spring can barely be considered an oasis it still provides a place to work from, and with the help of a friendly guiding spirit the young adventurer can start on bringing a little bit of life back to the dying land.
Into the Cube-Filled Void with Endlight Release - Hardcore Gamer
29.07.2023 - 04:55 / hardcoregamer.com / Hardcore
When it really comes down to it, how much more geometry is actually needed than the standard cube? Granted, pyramids have four faces of equilateral triangles but they don’t stack particularly well, as opposed the cube’s nice and regular six sides and ninety-degree angles everywhere. Throw a couple million cubes on the screen and you can do practically anything, although in the case of Endlight that can feel a bit overwhelming. Each level has a straightforward goal to fly through ten glowing gold square hoops, but the hundreds of thousands of cubes making up the mesmerizing level geometry all pulse and undulate in new patterns for each area.
Endlight is a pure abstract arcade game that in concept would have fit in with the gaming cabinets of the 80s if they wouldn’t spontaneously explode trying to render a single frame. You’re a cube flying forward but otherwise able to move freely, like Space Harrier except without a fixed camera. Each gold hoop you fly through gives a few seconds of invincibility while also adding a shield, up to ten total, and when you go through one it spins into the distance for a second chance to pick it up again. The second pickup slows you down for a bit, making it much easier to steer and pick up other hoops, so when coupled with the invincibility each pickup is a chance to ram through chunks of the level with temporary wild abandon. Flying clean or dirty is a choice, and frequently it’s the most fun to bash everything to smithereens even when that’s tough on the shield. Most levels have a ten-hoop goal, although some are more, and the first-person areas only need five to clear.
The level structure of Endlight looks simple at first glance but there’s actually a lot going on there. The game launched with one hundred levels total divided up into four “seasons” of twenty five levels apiece, and the seasons are sub-divided into sections as well. Each section is a collection of levels that ends in a first-person area where you can fly around freely, invulnerable to all damage and able to relax while taking in the scenery. Other bonus areas pop up unannounced with a bit of instructions or narrative, letting you drift gently forward and plow through the text. It creates a constant cycle of sustained intensity broken up by relaxation levels, making for a pattern that can easily see a full season cleared in a sitting. There is a major However!, though, in that each level can only be played once.
Once you clear a level, that’s it, it’s over. You can die a bunch of times, although if you die too much the level gets put to the back of the current section to avoid a frustrating cycle of failure, but once cleared there’s no going back. To make up for this the one hundred
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destructoid.com
16.08.2023 / 16:59
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Twin Peaks: Into the Night is the fan-made PS1-style game we never knew we needed
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