Solar Ash
SOLAR ASH
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There's a moment, near the end of myrecent hands-off preview of Solar Ash, where an inky black monster clambers over the moon and utterly fills the screen. Our protagonist, a Voidrunner named Rei, dashes over the shells that make up its hide, skating between weak spots like the boss was a level itself.
It’s at this point that Heart Machine founder Alx Preston says, “This is the smallest boss by an order of magnitude.”
SolarAshshares plenty with Preston’s previous work, the beautiful and singular HyperLightDrifter. Both feature dream-like pastel worlds, a haunting Disasterpeace soundtrack, and a fashion sense that heavily favours masks. But over the course of our demo, it became clear that SolarAsh is a vastly more ambitious project than its predecessor.