![]() In later stages, you’ll be darting towards green globules of slime, using them as a launchpad to reach the next area, or unlocking the flame skill that moves cuts diagonally through the screen, smashing up glass walls along the way.īoss battles in the game all feel pretty intuitive too, and though they’re far from easy, they aren’t hair-pulling to the extent of abdicating from your superhero responsibilities and pick up a game of chess instead. Source: Screen captureĭashing across the screen is the most fulfilling. With that in mind, she’s not a Peter Parker-type hero as she’ll eventually slide down the walls. She’s like a toddler that’s caked in, well, cake, as she sticks to everything. The way Josie sticks to the walls takes a bit of getting used to as it’s mildly distracting. If you get stuck, give the Zen Mode a go, and it’ll build your confidence up to play with the S Class heroes.īut Sunblaze isn’t that brutal, it’s pretty fair, and despite the chirpy soundtrack that is best played while sipping some fruit-infused green tea (don’t get me started), it has a wicked, self-knowing sense of humour – especially in the dialogue sequences. My approach was cack-handed.īest of all, each chapter displays how many times you died. What’s the opposite of finesse? Guileless, inadequate, incompetent… let’s go with cack-handed. There are only six chapters in the game, but there’s more than enough stages within each one You’d be naive in thinking that would continue for a brutal platformer like this, but this is the type of game that has you barricading the doors, removing all distractions and perfecting your timing to smash each level with finesse. ![]() Everything was quaint, in its proper place and far from chaotic. ![]() The first time I booted up Sunblaze, y’know, inserted the disks and typed Load “”, the option didn’t occur to me. Zen Mode is a very flattering way to say ‘for pussies’. Wha.?! It’s already a testing game, but if you eat this sort of game for breakfast, the added challenge might be for you. Keep collecting them, and they unlock challenges. In addition to tinkering with these Tetris blocks of death, there are optional datacubes to collect. You’ll have to dash across one side of the screen, trigger a block to fall, dart back to the place you were at before (now sinking), then jump onto the platform you pulled down. There isn’t any visible timer pushing you forward, staring down from the top of the screen like a disappointed parent. After a couple of silly mistakes and some explosive clouds of blood, it became apparent how critical timing is. The first couple of stages in Sunblaze, elegantly fused as the room digitally refreshes itself without delay, were easy peasy. After falling to my death numerous time, I surmised these might be there to assist me with my rock climbing aspirations. On the first inspection, these looked like blades would protrude out, so I avoided them. She also has a wall-climbing ability as standard, but it’s vital to grab on to the groove embedded in the walls. Then we have the precision timing that was last seen in Sockventure, only Josie isn’t so floaty and manoeuvres around the screen as one would expect of an assumed teenage superhero.īesides a dashing costume that may or may not disguise her identity, Josie can dart across the screen in a sporadic dash effect. ![]() We have the gratuitous Super Meat Boy claret engulfing the screen each time she lands on a spike or has something weighty crush her into homemade jam. The design is similar to a lot of the titles we see. Cue some ever-evolving rooms (read: stages), and Josie steadily unlocks her potential of getting her own movie, lunchbox and action figure set. ![]() Sunblaze, by Games From Earth and Bonus Stage Publishing, is a platform puzzler – the puzzle element is ‘how do I get to the goal without dying?’. It aims to destroy Josie, while she has other plans: …to become a superhero! (and escape the endless pain that the room inflicts). Unfortunately, someone left 2001: A Space Odyssey on the telly overnight, and not the training room’s AI has evolved and taken over the controls. Disney Dreamlight Valley Early Access Preview ![]()
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