Solar Ash

released on Dec 02, 2021

Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters. The Void beckons…


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I had a lot of fun while I was able to play this game, unfortunately it crashed once and I can not get it to relaunch. Based on search results this is a fairly common issue and there's no way to fix it from what I could gather.

I like the monsters and movement

I enjoyed so many pieces of Solar Ash.

The movement feels great, it has an interesting premise, and everything about it looks beautiful. Hell, I spent almost half the game not realizing there was a boost button (no idea how I missed that in the tutorial) and it was still really fun just idly skating around, finding caches, and playing "Connect-the-Dots of the Colossus" every hour or so. But beyond that admittedly impressive surface lies a game that's disappointingly hollow.

There are brief excellent moments when you arrive at new locations or when you reach scenic overlooks and the camera pulls back to let you savor a gorgeous unworldly vista. Apart from those moments, however, Solar Ash does little to stand out of the crowd. It's never bad but it rarely excels either. My save file is just short of 6 hours playtime and that feels about how long I would want this game to be, given how shallow your interactions with the world are. The game does very little to iterate on it's initial traversal or combat, so I'm sure the last couples hours of this game could feel like a slog for some.

Solar Ash is good not great which is a bummer coming from Heart Machine. Announcing your studio with an exceptional, challenging, and down-right eerie isometric action-adventure only to make a pretty good 3D platformer is a letdown, and it leaves me hoping that Hyper Light Breaker is a return to form rather than a continuation of the trend.

Really great visual style, solid music, really fun and quick 3D platform-skater. Navigating the environments was fun, the boss fights were fun and occasionally challenging. The story is in-your-face but also not too overwritten like this sort of game can be. I hear what others are saying about jankiness with collision and such but that didn't happen often enough to sour the experience for me. Really good!

Despues de jugar un par de horas me pregunte porque el guion de este juego era tan mierda teniendo en cuenta la narrativa que tuvo hyper light driffter.
Despues de googlear un poco me vi que zoe quinn esta en los creditos.
Las palabras sobran.

it's xenogender journey starring shadow the hedgehog's rocket skates and an extremely hot giant goddess lady crushes you in the palm of her hand repeatedly, so. it's pretty good