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Saros delivers Returnal 2 in all but name

Housemarque's Returnal remains one of the best PS5 games. Built to kill, raised to die, and fine-tuned to annoy the shit out me while dragging me back in for yet another go at  2AM.  Not-a-sequel Saros ropes in my one of my favourite actors Rahul Kohli into the mix with proper shields, greater weapons freedom, Indian-styled visuals, and borrowing  Xenon 2: Megablast's palette and violence.  Saros is set on Carcosa, a shape-shifting, hostile alien planet. It changes on every death, where a total eclipse changes everything (very Pitch Black!). The video shows the first biome, hopefully the others shift up the palette more than Returnal did.  Along his journey he finds Nitya Chandran (Shunori Ramanthan), adding some depth to the Returnal-mayhem. The stunning environment Arjun explores is that of a lost ancient civilization fueled by the twisted enlightenment of the eclipse.  Saros lands in March 2026, check out the PlayStation blog post for more details on w...

Hands on with "Where is my Heart?"

Not got the time to review this new PSN mini for PSP and PS3 just yet, so consider this a quick hands-on to say how madly enticing it is. The Danish developed game throws three funny little critters together, slightly reminiscent of that quirky pair in the Spectrum game Head over Heels.



 They have to work together to collect the hearts on each level to feed their tree. The trouble is, these levels aren't just any levels, each one is broken up into comic-book pane windows, but then shuffled out of order. So stepping from the bottom left pane could see you appear in the top middle one, plummeting to your doom in the process.


Working out the order of the panes isn't too tough, but figuring out how to catch the hearts is, in some levels your creatures can stack up to reach them or transform into other animals with particular powers, including the ability to shuffle the panes around.


Figuring all this out is maddeningly fun, but the game's eight bit-aesthetic, gentle charm and subtle tones keep you from getting too wound up. Hopefully the challenge will continue to vary and bring up new ways to play in the later levels.

Currently playing on my Vita/PS3/PS4/PS5


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