The opinion of
India
When we tell you that 2021 ends on the evening of December 31, it’s not for nothing: during the last month of the year, games are still coming out, sometimes with excellent surprises. For my part, my surprise of December – and undoubtedly of the year – is Solar Ash, a new game from the studio Heart Machine, which gave us the very good 2D action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter in 2016. But with this new game, the team completely changes register and demonstrates a frankly impressive artistic and “mechanical” mastery. Exit 2D, here everything is in 3D, with certain levels that you can explore upside down thanks to gravity, like Super Mario Galaxy. The player embodies a Void Runner, a strange being who must face big monsters to save his world, and who slides on the ground (like “Shadow” in Sonic) thanks to a pair of boots that are much too cool. Solar Ash shows a pretty crazy consistency once controller in hand. Its movement system is a real pleasure to use, with a level design that gives the pleasure of being intelligently declined during the six hours of play. The phases of the platforms are lively, varied, sometimes impressive – on the backs of the famous big monsters – , not to mention the visuals, very successful. A game that deserves your full attention.