"Why end someone's misery when you can pull them out of it?"

That is a line I did not expect to experience in what I believed was a simple free runner devloped to test their 3D chops before they moved on to Hyper Light Breaker. I could not have been more wrong.

Solar Ash presents itself as a surreal platformer that hosts excellent movement, a beautiful presentation and pretty compelling motivation. To save everyone. A task that is revealed to be impossible and the real solution to the damage...is just to move on.

The movement is just fantastic. skating across clouds on railings and up bosses. It looks great and feels even better. The soundtrack compliments everything perfectly and it all just comes together in a really wonderful way.

I will admit early on I saw the game and it's repetitive structure as more style over substance. But with every region that I entered and the more dialogue that I heard, the more I fell in love.

Solar Ash is a true Heart Machine classic.