There’s very much a feeling of near-hopelessness pervading Returnal being trapped on an alien world where the friendliest entity you can hope to encounter is your ship’s computer. Returnal ’ s set-up does feel a lot like a Metroid game, with much of the same feeling of isolation and discovery from exploration. You may have found yourself reading that paragraph and wondering if you had accidentally stumbled onto a review for Metroid Prime 2. ![]() After escaping the wreckage, she finds herself alone on an isolated planet filled with the ruins of a now deceased race, with her only company being a bunch of deformed dark tentacle monsters, some rusty auto turrets, and the bed in her own ship. Upon entering the planet's atmosphere, her spaceship is struck by lightning, and she winds up faceplanting her newly flambee’d ship into an uncharted alien planet. ![]() The premise follows a spacefaring woman who winds up tracking a distress signal to an alien planet. although hopefully not too common that EA starts to take notice. Thankfully, Returnal has no such concepts, and instead remains a fully enclosed, tightly knit adventure game that does pave the way for big budget roguelites to become more common. Truthfully, I can’t imagine why it seems like a game based around replayability and randomness would be a prime opportunity to insert microtransactions and lootboxes. Returnal is something of an anomaly amongst other AAA games, as big budget roguelites aren’t exactly common. At an eyebrow raising $70, is it worth a purchase? Could it even be good enough to stand up alone as a solid reason to buy a PS5? Returnal is now available to everyone, or at least everyone fortunate enough to acquire a PS5 while the pandemic makes a mockery of supply-side economics. With it, the opening salvo in the ninth generation of console wars has been fired. The first entirely new major AAA next gen console exclusive has finally landed. By Paul Broussard, posted on / 4,358 Views
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