Some say that synthwave aesthetics are overplayed, however I’d argue that it’s among the finest tendencies to hit gaming. An entire new excuse to have catchy synth music, shiny complimentary colors, clearly outlined visuals and explosions of neon particles each 5 seconds. Upcoming arcrobatic speedrunning platformer Rifter takes all of that and provides grappling hooks to the combo, which seems like an excellent time to me, no less than.
I’ve been following Rifter’s growth for fairly a while now. Solo developer Maximilian ‘IMakeGames’ Csuk has been posting a gradual stream of tantalising animated gifs and short gameplay videos to Twitter for a while now, and has been engaged on the sport for 3 years in complete. Now the sport is listed on Steam and a trailer is reside, he’s proudly displaying it to the world, and rightfully so, as a result of it appears to be like and sounds pretty.
Citing Dustforce, Bionic Commando and Hotline Miami as inspirations, Rifter appears to be like fairly intimidating at first, with the participant zipping by means of the air at ridiculous speeds, seldom touching the bottom if all the things goes to plan. A spread of air-dashes (additionally used to assault enemies) and grappling hook tips are wanted to maintain your toes off the bottom and your momentum excessive. While the sport appears to be like geared in the direction of the speedrunning crowd, it guarantees 90 ranges and a number of endings, so until these ranges are individually tiny, it might have extra meat on its bones than you’d suppose.
Despite the velocity of the sport and the tiny measurement of your little character on-screen, there’s a formidable sense of weight and influence to your air-dash assaults, with collisions thumping off (or by means of) enemies, and leaving glowing cracks within the floor everytime you miss the mark. Aside from that huge stompy factor on the finish of the trailer, punching by means of enemies appears to be simply a part of the racing line, which is precisely what you need in a sport like this. I’m wanting ahead to seeing if it performs half nearly as good because it appears to be like later this summer time.
Rifter is due out someday this July. You can wishlist it over on Steam here.
