The unique PixelJunk Monsters feels just like the product of a really completely different time in gaming. A easy, nearly Flash-esque tower protection sport, it nonetheless went on to grew to become one of many first digitally distributed success tales on Sony’s (on the time) leading edge PlayStation 3. Over 5 years later it got here to PC, and whereas moderately effectively acquired, it by no means made a lot of a splash.
Q-Games’ PixelJunk Monsters 2 could also be boilerplate tower protection at its coronary heart, too, however a shifted perspective and a few spectacular leverage of contemporary graphics tech provides the just-announced sequel a contemporary and undeniably cute claymation-like look.
One factor that trendy sport graphics have introduced us lately are some really tactile wanting supplies. Glossy, glazed clay items, tough dust paths, fuzzy felt, craggy rocks and extra, all outlined a lot by how gentle performs off their surfaces. By trying to imitate stop-motion animation, tilt-shifted digicam and all, the world of PixelJunk Monsters 2 appears to be like stable in a method so few video games do, with each character and monster wanting like they’re hand-made out of the identical supplies as their world.
Nothing about PixelJunk Monsters 2 is particularly groundbreaking when it comes to gameplay ideas, admittedly. There have been no scarcity of tower protection video games performed from a single unit’s perspective now, and even just a few reversals of the style akin to the Anomaly series, however the sport’s artwork model goes a really lengthy strategy to maintain my curiosity. The addition of four-player co-op helps too, particularly given the over-the-shoulder perspective.
PixelJunk Monsters 2 isn’t too far off, and can be launching for a number of platforms (together with ours) on May 25th, priced at $15. The sport is being printed by more and more prolific-on-PC outfit Spike Chunsoft.
