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Returnal deluxe edition1/27/2024 ![]() ![]() It’s a PS5 exclusive, showing off the incredible technology built into the latest next-gen console hardware from Sony. Your character is a determined, driven female scientist-warrior, with a penchant for exploration and careful documentation of a hostile alien world: Ellen Ripley meets Jane Goodall. This is, after all, a classic bullet-hell experience. Combat encounters are fast and terrifying, with alien creatures dazzling the screen with lethal lightshows, your character dancing between their attacks, setting your TV on fire with what I can only describe as gorgeous but chaotic deliberation. This game feels like you’re in a ballet of chaos and beauty, in a world lovingly designed with layers of interest and intrigue mysteries are stacked within mysteries. What is this place? Why are there corpses and audio logs of herself from different times? Why does she keep returning to the crash site upon death? Why is there a 20th century country house in the middle of an alien planet? And why is everything trying to kill her? This is the mystery at the centre of Returnal.Īnd as someone who loves mysteries, particularly those set in space with elements of cosmic horror, this would all otherwise be perfect. The game begins where Selene’s ship has crashed and she finds the body of another scout – only it’s hers. Selene is seeking the source of a mysterious signal called “White Shadow”. You play Selene, a scout who crashes on a mysterious, hostile alien planet. This beautifully-crafted, bullet-hell, third-person sci-fi, action-horror adventure game from the masters at Housemarque is carefully crafted.
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