![]() But Returnal offers a bevy of other consumables, Artifacts that upgrade your suit, and a variety of guns and devices that impact every run. Picking up various kinds of Resin can heal or increase overall health. The most important attribute to monitor, however, is your Suit Integrity which functions as your HP or health bar. Your suit might repair itself when heavily damaged, but your melee damage output could take a 50 percent reduction. There are Optional Parasites that cling to Selene’s body, offering some kind of perk at the expense of a negative effect. But most items you pick up disappear upon your demise. Some upgrades are permanent as Selene harvests alien technology from the long-dead corpses of a sentient civilization, like a grappling hook or Atropian Blade melee weapon. This is a staple of the roguelike genre, but unlike games like Hades where you’ll construct a synergistic build using the Boons you discover along the way, Returnal is a bit more chaotic and left up to chance. Over time, you’ll recognize some patterns, but everything from the environments to the enemies and items you discover are procedurally generated at random. The planet also changes in every loop, adding a sense of mystery and intrigue. You are a weak human in a dangerous place, and every single demise is sudden and brutal enough that I found myself screaming in literal terror. Some of them even mutate and reanimate.Įven the weakest of enemies can take you out in one or two hits, so the anxious feeling of vulnerability and dread is on par with the likes of Dark Souls or Bloodborne. The mystery deepens when Selene encounters her own dead body. Except every time, she loops back in time to the crash and must explore the planet yet again. After a storm damages her ship, resulting in an emergency crash-landing, she awakens on the planet’s surface and begins exploring a dangerous forest where hostile alien life forms inevitably and brutally destroy her. ![]() ![]() In Returnal, you play as Selene Vassos, a space explorer with the ASTRA Corporation who investigates a mysterious signal on the off-limits planet of Atropos. ![]()
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