Walking simulator wizard Connor Sherlock has launched a brand new assortment of his splendid strolls, visiting 5 forbidden locations for 5 {dollars}. I am keen on exploring his worlds, crossing huge lurid landscapes and poking at fragments of civilisations as my ears fill along with his synth soundtracks wailing and warbling like 70s sci-fi and horror films. Good, yeah? Good.
Zones, as this newest assortment is known as, visits a rocky alien world of cyan and magneta which lights up because the solar rises, a dusky purple woodland affected by henges, a golden plain with unusual buildings and huge citrine crystals drifting via the sky, Earth-ish steppe with ruined scraps of civilisation and clouds boiling overhead, and a darkish and unsightly purple world. That’s all of the varieties of world within the identified universe, I consider.
These are huge locations and our solely path is wherever we’re headed, whichever distant landmark we’re trekking to, whichever hill we want to see behind, no matter is hiding within the fog or darkness, wherever our fingers occur to take us as we simply get pleasure from being there.
They all strike completely different tones however all make me really feel a way of wondrous insignificance, of being so small in a universe so unknowable and uncaring. The little we’re and know can be gone, and that’s liberating. Even the doomiest of his worlds make me curious to discover earlier than an assumed horrible finish as a result of hell, what else can we do?
I do get pleasure from how Sherlock tailors motion to every world. We can transfer with an unholy pace in Witch Of Agnesi, dashing throughout meadows and leaping up via the forest’s branches. It feels mistaken to be that highly effective; no matter we’re and what we are able to do makes me uncomfortable. Lovely. I ran and jumped and felt unhealthy for a very long time there. We get to leap excessive over a low-gravity world elsewhere within the assortment however this has a specific wrongness.
Also wonderful: the sunrises and rolling climate in some locations. Some good reveals and shifts dovetail properly with the music.
Ah, I like his stuff, y’know? Good. Good issues. I like them. And particularly as collections which current a variety of various locations, completely different sounds, completely different moods.
Zones is yours in the event you pay at the least $5 on Itch.io. It’ll solely be accessible till May 19th. Sherlock made its 5 worlds for the ‘Walking Simulator A Month Club’ that’s his Patreon, and after this they’ll return behind that Patreon paywall. Right now he’s searching for somewhat further money for Feral Vector, the wonderful video games occasion in Yorkshire, see.
Sherlock’s Walking Simulator A Month Club Vol. 1 is half-price proper now too. I gushed about that earlier this year, and it’s nonetheless good. It is also $5 on Itch.
Disclosure: Feral Vector is organsied by some buddies of mine. It’s an actual good occasion tbh. Where else has a LARP about post-Apocalyptic recreation improvement?
