This is a game with a unique movement system, in which you can zip to enemies, which lets you fly and later even teleport through obstacles. It is a very nice mechanics which makes the game feel fresh in the metroidvania genre. It is also an impressive effort for a mainly 2 people studio. It is a pity some aspects of it are quite rough, which in latter potions of the game made me irritated: - There is a lot of backtracking which is tedious because quick travel system is badly designed. This game has very little direction so essentially each time you get new movement upgrade you need to look for all places where it can open something. There are many such places, most will be secrets not new areas. This is not unusual for metroidvanias, but having such huge swaths of map far away from quick travel spots (which by the way are not all connected, only some of them!) is not. Some spots developers surely knew will be visited often are fare away from this system... - Fights are sometimes very random. Often there are many enemies and where they are located directs your movement. Some boss phases with side mobs become trivial if you were lucky with mob movements, but nearly impossible otherwise. They also drop health randomly which also leads to severe fluctuations in difficulty. - Movement sometimes is tiresome. One of the mechanics is planting flowers at walls to zip to them. Very often you need to be quite precise in throwing them to be able to jump from them to the ledge up, so I needed to try few times to get over basic ledges in places where you need travel through over and over again. Similarly, when you learn dash up, in later zones there are many ledges which require it. The problem is, dash up is on cooldown and takes long time to perform. Using simple jumps or zipping is much more smooth and feels better. Anyway, I complain a lot as I want to be specific, but the rough parts are not majority of this game. I still had lot of fun.
This game is not for everyone. You walk slow, you acutely feel your character is walking in an unwieldy cosmic suit. There are long discussions about scientific topics. And I love it. It is one of the most nerdy games I ever played it treats you like an intelligent person who likes to think about what they see. And it presents all of this while showing hauntingly beautiful landscapes of Regis III. You just see passion pouring out of this game. It is also a great companion to the original book "Invincible". The main mystery is lost if you already know the book, but I was having fun anyway.
