Publisher Annapurna Interactive
The first thought that crosses our mind as the credits roll on Heart Machine’s ambitious actionplatformer: we can’t wait for the speedruns. That’s no surprise for a game that has, as the developer put it to us, “two buttons for go”. At its best, it feels like Jet Set Radio meets Shadow Of The Colossus for the AGDQ generation. It’s a game about moving fast and looking good while doing so – without letting the small matter of the end of the world get in the way. And in practised hands, for the most part, it manages to achieve both.