How do you observe up a beloved one-off – retaining what made it particular, however increasing its world and concepts meaningfully? Coloration Grey has managed a very deft stability right here – that is successfully the sport you realize, however a setting you actually, actually don’t. Removed from persevering with the place we left off, Rise picks up complete centuries after the occasions of the primary recreation, on this world’s equal of the Nineteen Seventies. For followers of Case, it implies that, even you probably have all of the backstory, you’re simply as misplaced within the context of this world, providing you with the joys of placing all of the items again collectively as soon as once more.
This can be a world the place the very actual Idol of the primary recreation has not solely develop into a delusion, however been bodily damaged into items – and we uncover what occurs when folks start placing them again collectively once more. To provide away any extra would spoil the surprises, nevertheless it’s secure to say that whereas it offers in related themes to the primary recreation, it is a very totally different story.
On first look, you may assume that it is a very related recreation, nevertheless. The fundamental system stays – every degree provides you a take a look at a really particular (virtually all the time violent) second in time, and affords the choice to click on on the folks and objects in that second, selecting up clues.