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Metroidvania Uruc is like Rain World but the slugcat gets a shotgun and pilots a mechSluggier than thou
Sluggier than thou
Image credit:Stefan Haasbroek
Image credit:Stefan Haasbroek
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Other features look very familiar. Your character rolls and tumbles in a similar way to the slugcat, it clambers up and down poles placed in the levels, it plops into water and swims with the same sense of weight. The few examples of dialogue in the trailer also lend a similarly cryptic atmosphere when set against Videocult’s strange land, and even the symbol painted on a panel in the background of one shot brings to mind themeaningful glyphsscattered around Rain World, such as those used on its “karma gates”.
All that said, it shouldn’t be surprising that a developer has taken such thorough inspiration from the catslug. Rain World, for all its quirks and idiosyncrasies, displays a courage unlike many other games. It simulates a world that is unforgiving and beautiful, in which the player often merely feels like a visitor. If someone wants to pump more of that heady toxin into the game-o-sphere, who can blame them? I get the feeling Rain World’s influence is going to be felt in more games to come, albeit perhaps more quietly than this. You can sense the shadow of its design philosophy in the upcomingForever Winter, for example, another mech-fuelled megawar in which you are merely a passing roach.
