Morphite, a stylish sci-fi shooter with platforming and exploration elements, will enter the PS4's orbit on the 7th September. The game's definitely got a whiff of No Man's Sky about it, and it looks like it could tell an interesting story.
The press release reads: "Voyage to the furthest corners of the galaxy as Myrah Kale, a young woman whose life takes a turn when a routine mission develops into an epic interstellar journey to find a mythical substance called Morphite. On her adventure, explore hand-crafted and procedurally-generated planets teeming with alien life." See what we mean?
Give the trailer a watch and let us know if you're up for more sci-fi adventures in the comments section below.
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Not a fan of the visual style. I really dig flat-shaded polygons since I grew up in the days of the 32X, Dire Straits' Money for Nothing video, Namco's System 21 Arcade Board, the SEGA Model 1 + 2 Boards, Interstate '76, the Super FX chip, etc. I'm just nostalgic for it and I think it still looks really avant-garde and surreal when it's executed well by indies nowadays (look at something like Racing Apex for example).
But when you DON'T embrace the sharpness, the harshness - which they're not here, it doesn't have enough contrast to really make those edges pop... it just doesn't look very good, does it? It looks oddly "soft" for assets so faceted. It also doesn't help when you're sporting such a gross "70's pulp sci-fi novella cover" color scheme (I was not a fan of No Man's Sky or Headlander's aesthetic either, largely because of the color palette being comprised entirely of "sickly"/garish/desaturated versions of normally vibrant colors)
Game itself looks pretty okay. I've liked some of Crescent Moon's stuff in the past (Neon Shadow on Steam is a great throwback shooter for anyone who grew up playing stuff like the N64 version of Quake 2), and I want to support devs that are trying to transition away from mobile developer to make games for actual platforms if they have cool game designs. But man, these visuals just don't do it for me. Just looks bland.
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