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Allow me to introduce you to Future Knight, quite possibly the best looking PS5 and PS4 game I’ve ever seen. It’s due out next week, on 13th August.
Inspired by old LCD handhelds manufactured by Tiger Electronics (or even Nintendo’s own Game & Watch), this side-scrolling shooter has one of the most unique aesthetics I think I’ve ever seen.
The dev, Studio Koba, has really nailed the look of the pixels overlaid on printed backdrops, with the full campaign consisting of eight different biomes.
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It’s also batsh*t insane from a narrative perspective, so I’m going to let the official blurb do the heavy lifting here:
“It is May 23rd, 1993. The Lady of the Past, leader of the ‘Present’ pyramid scheme cult, has just washed her underwear and, incidentally, wiped the brains of all humanity. Only you, a robot built over 30 years from the remains of a 90s soap opera actor, can stop her. But you are not alone. You have Two More, a benign tumor – inexplicably powerful and with a life of its own – living inside you.”
So, yeah.
The aforementioned eight biomes occur over the eight hours prior to The Lady of the Past washing her underwear, and you must defeat denizens of baddies to fix the future. Or something.
As alluded to in the synopsis, gameplay is split between Future Knight, who’s more powerful in combat – and Two More, who’s capable of wall jumping and squeezing through tight spaces. You can toggle between the two at will.
I’ve never seen anything quite like this and I’m immediately enamoured with it. Will you be playing it on launch? Let me know below.