Each biome is different from the other with stark differences where you will encounter ruins, deserts and wastelands that might seem endless. There are six biomes you must conquer to finish the game and each gets harder than the previous one. These sequences reveal new details about Selene that makes dying repeatedly a rewarding experience. Each time she relives the crash, we get mysterious glimpses of her life, home and figures. While this may sound very frustrating from the sound of it, you also get to learn more about Selene with each death. With every death on this planet, Selene is transported back to the opening cut scene where she crash lands on the planet over and over again. However, in Returnal after each death, the world shifts into a randomly generated environment and Celeste discovers her corpses from previous cycles along the way. However, soon after your first death, you realise you’re caught in a loop, a concept very much reminiscent of Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow. You play as Selene, who crash lands on the planet of Atropos in search of answers and a mysterious signal she hopes to understand. Within the first hour of the game, I started to get shivers down my back that I normally don’t experience in games. Returnal successfully manages to capture that menacing feeling of something evil is about to happen. Returnal has the same eerie feeling I experienced when I first saw 80s sci-fi space horror films like Aliens.
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It wouldn’t be fair to classify Returnal as just another roguelike game as the game takes influences from not only games but popular science fiction movies by Ridley Scott.Īt first, when you start the game, you will instantly start comparing similarities with the movie Prometheus. Returnal is perhaps Sony’s first next-generation game that takes advantage of the new hardware, unlike any other game we’ve seen so far. Returnal is the latest exclusive title for the PlayStation 5 that is worth getting to experience what true next-gen feels like.ĭeveloped by Housemarque, Returnal takes obvious influences from previous titles by the developer such as Resogun but carves a unique identity in the roguelike genre.
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