Hollow Knight: Silksong was announced more than five years ago, and it feels like we're not much closer to the hotly anticipated indie game's release. Fans have been clamouring for something, anything about this side-scrolling Metroidvania action title all these years, and while we've had one or two trailers and some other clues, Team Cherry remains tight lipped about exactly when it'll finally be ready. Our latest hint of movement is a new product page, this time on Xbox's store.
Outcast - A New Beginning Review: "Feels Quite Archaic For 2024"
14.03.2024 - 04:53 / screenrant.com / New Beginning
There’s something very warming about seeing a cult classic game finally get a revival. Whether it’s the third part of or Nightdive Studios’ perseverance to get classic FPS games back on the map, it’s nice to see game get a second wind, providing the end result works for fans. Enter from developer Appeal Studios and publisher THQ Nordic.
is the follow up to 1999’s, a game that claims to be the first proper 3D open world game, and was released a full two years before would popularise that format. After a middling remake in 2017, takes the form of a fully fledged sequel, returning the players to the role of Cutter Slade, a wise-mouthed former Navy SEAL transported to the alien world of Adelpha. However, the potential of this new beginning is hampered by design choices that make it feel rather old-fashioned.
One element that succeeds about is the design of the world itself. Although relatively small in scope, with an open world of seven towns, there’s a vibrancy that makes up for it. Adelpha and the culture of the Talan people who inhabit the planet are enjoyable to explore, with biomes of everything from jungles to sandy coasts through to icy mountains, all created effectively.
In particular, the vertical design of is very impressive. All too often open world environments are quite flat and lacking in the peaks and troughs that real spaces provide, but Adelpha excels here, with the player climbing up to villages at the top of rock pillars or clambering around treetops. It’s very different from the lifelessness of , for instance.
Players will see the benefit of upgrading their jump pack early, both for additional boosts but also for new abilities, to really emphasise the qualities of exploring the game world.
When it comes to overall design, those looking for a direct comparison to another piece of media would be best placed to think of – although of course would arrive a full decade after the original. This is not only because of ’s vibrant color scheme and varied alien species, but also because of the game’s thematic focus, of a primary species more at one with the natural world, the threat of human interference, and a clumsily-written messianic human hero coming to save the day.
Although the original may have been revolutionary for the time, unfortunately this doesn’t translate to the sequel. The structure of the game and the content of exactly what the player will spend their time doing feels quite archaic for 2024. Cutter must unite the seven villages and weaken the threat of a human invading force, but does so through ways that players will find from any open world game of the last fifteen years.
Missions generally fall into two camps, with the player either supporting the Talan with personal
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