But she loses the highest one you’ve purchased to an arbitrary game mechanic after beating each Remnant. This lets you purchase new shield cores, which let Rei take one more hit. You’ll find red bits of plasma around the areas, as well as in boxes and crystals. There are a couple of things similar to progression, though.
But there aren’t many of them, making Solar Ash‘s progression feel a bit staid. She doesn’t learn more moves or anything, so new gameplay elements are purely environmental. Rei is pretty much the same in the beginning as she is at the end. What feels a bit weird is that Solar Ash doesn’t have upgrades. She can also grapple to specific needles with grapple points affixed to them, but she can’t grapple to normal needles. Rei has an ability that lets her slow down time and grapple to an enemy. It’s a lot like Shadow of the Colossus, but much simpler and less intimidating. The third section has all of the black goop on them turn red, so if you fall off of their white armor pieces, Rei will respawn on the ground and you’ll have to start that weak point section again. That is, except for the fact that Remnants have three weak points, requiring you to basically go through three sections where you skate along their body to hit all the needles and defeat them. Once you do, Rei attaches to them and has to basically do the same thing she did with the anomalies. Once you hit the first needle, a time limit kicks in and you need to hit the next before this ends, otherwise the needle will vanish and any black goop attached will turn red, damaging Rei and forcing her to respawn.įor Remnants, they’re giant beasts walking around and you need to find the first needle.
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Anomalies are stuck in place, so it’s often a bit of a simple puzzle to find out how to best hit all the needles. You still need to hit a lot of things, but that’s because the anomalies and Remnants all require Rei to hit needles in order to fight them. And The Pathless let you look around the world to easily spot points of interest in the distance, while Solar Ash mostly requires you to wander until you find things, at least until you get the Voidrunner suit that lets Rei scan for stashes. There’s often not a whole lot to see, even if the world design is quite good. But while The Pathless had tons of different puzzles and goodies to seek out while exploring the areas, Solar Ash just has the Voidrunner stashes and side stories. You enter, find the conduit, scan for the anomalies, knock ’em out, and then take on the boss. This allows the conduit to power the Starseed.ĭue to the above, each area can be repetitious. Then you return to the area’s conduit (which Rei can freely warp too once she locates it) and reactivate the AI assisting her now that its signal isn’t being blocked.
Once they’re all disposed of, a Remnant - a giant monster - must be fought. Each of Solar Ash‘s six areas (one tutorial, and five that are full-length) allows you to scan for these anomalies, so you just need to approach and destroy them. Specifically, Rei has to destroy anomalies. It’s up to Rei to find out what’s going on and do her best to save her people from oblivion.
But the other Voidrunners have gone silent, and the Starseed hasn’t been activated. When her home world is threatened with destruction by the Ultravoid, she and her fellow Voidrunners go to place conduits on a nearby planet to activate a device known as the Starseed to keep the Ultravoid from leading their people to ruin. Rei is a Voidrunner a member of a group that dives into and explores voids. Solar Ash is the story of the unfortunately named Rei, which will no doubt generate some Star Wars jokes. But it’s still a compelling experience with an intriguing narrative and some worthwhile sights to see. Some HLD fans will no doubt be disappointed by this, and the game could certainly have used a bit more depth and variety. Instead of focusing on action, the game is all about platforming, exploration, and dashing forward at high speeds. But that’s mostly where the similarities end. It’s got the same developer, it’s set in the same universe, and the main character also has an energy sword. It’s easy to assume that Solar Ash is a sequel to Hyper Light Drifter.
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