Teslagrad 2 Evaluate (PS5) | Push Sq.

Teslagrad 2 is a sequel to the well-received PS4 title, Teslagrad, developed by Rain Video games. It’s a three to 5 hour Metroidvania-style 2D puzzle platformer wherein you play as a younger lady, Lumina. Whereas out coaching to turn out to be a teslamancer, she crashes her airship in Wyrmheim, stranding her on this treacherously overseas land to the north of her hometown, Teslagrad. Utilizing her varied electrifying and magnetic skills you will need to remedy puzzles, keep away from risks, and discover your environment to find a secure path to return residence.

Teslagrad 2’s puzzles focus closely on its terrific traversal with most of the unlockable skills enhancing your swift actions. You purchase each an electrical sprint and slide very early on, which makes for some extraordinarily satisfying moments when chained collectively nicely; sliding down a slope after which dashing via an electrical energy beam avoiding dying by a hair’s breadth is so thrilling. Mixed along with your magnetic capacity of attracting or repelling your self towards or away from platforms, you could have the instruments to construct up fairly the momentum to realize some impressively excessive or lengthy jumps.

As you progress and unlock extra weapons and skills, which have taken inspiration from Nordic mythology, the puzzles turn out to be more difficult, requiring extra exact jumps or extra correct timing to keep away from getting burnt to a crisp. That is to be anticipated however ought to you end up caught on a puzzle or not understanding the place to go to progress, there are not any hints or steerage supplied. We discovered ourselves on a number of events being utterly stumped by what seemed to be dead-end rooms solely to later determine our new capacity had a perform the sport didn’t even inform us about.

In between all of the platforming you’ll be confronted with a handful of difficult boss battles. These being too tough was a significant criticism of the unique sport and it appears that evidently suggestions has been taken on board. Earlier than coming into each boss space, you’re introduced with a brand new defend capacity, permitting you to take an additional hit earlier than dying. This has helped massively in balancing out the steep problem, though we nonetheless discovered a few encounters significantly unfair. We’re speaking about you, moose.

In the end, Teslagrad 2 is an agreeable successor with satisfying traversal and enjoyably difficult puzzles and boss fights. However with a brief runtime and an absence of hints and steerage it fails to actually enhance upon its predecessor. For those who loved Teslagrad and are in search of extra of the identical, this sequel will suffice.