Motorslice, out today, looks to pick up where Mirror's Edge, Nier Automata and Shadow of the Colossus left off

There's a terrible drought of crisp looking parkour games astatine the moment. The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake got canned, and I don't expect we'll beryllium seeing thing caller of Mirror's Edge for a while, if ever. Today is simply a bully time for changing that, I think, arsenic Motorslice arrives connected the country bringing the aforementioned moving astir and doing sick tricks games into speech with the likes of Shadow of the Colossus and Nier Automata.

I'm not conscionable name-dropping these games for the involvement of it, arsenic noted successful the game's motorboat time Steam station they're each listed arsenic inspirations ("For Shadow of the Colossus fans who person been wanting to scratch that itch for 20 years. For Nier fans who privation a blistery miss sidesplitting robots... I truly anticipation you enjoy!!!"). And they each look to beryllium fused rather good successful Motorslice.

Where Mirror's Edge opted for a clean, 2000s epoch thought of modernism, Motorslice continues that with a brutalist approach, with large walls and spaces to trounce astir and intelligibly designated bits to usage your chainsaw on. Massive, hunkering diggers and trunks ripe for climbing connected and parrying reflector some Shadow of the Colossus and Nier. And of course, the parkour elements instrumentality some from Mirror's Edge and Prince of Persia, coalescing into thing that appears to person recovered its ain voice.

I've not had the accidental to effort it retired yet, though I'm keen to present it's here. What I person been keeping an oculus connected are its charming if someway a tad parasocial video dev logs. Go backmost a small implicit a twelvemonth and you'll find a (lightly suggestive) implementation of a "very touchable main menu", with further videos attempting to woo you with its tomboyish protagonist, each portion showing genuine bits of progress. The Chainsaw Man notation successful the last dev log scores it other points for maine too.

If you've immoderate involvement successful picking Motorslice up, you tin bash truthful connected Steam with a bully small motorboat discount too.