Bionic Bay from Psychoflow Studio, Mureena Oy and Kepler Interactive is a 2D puzzle platformer. We’ve seen quite a few video games over time that match this description so what does this one do in another way that units it aside from the remainder?
To seek out out, let’s break it down, lets?
Bionic Bay
In Bionic Bay, gamers will tackle the position of a scientist who miraculously survives an experiment gone awry. Proper initially of the sport, a bunch of scientists are conducting some assessments on what seems like an enormous egg when all of the sudden lightning bursts forth from it and it basically fries everybody to dying immediately, besides on your playable character. When you get up within the ruins of the destroyed lab, you enterprise forth into the damaging unknown world. Whereas clearly fairly injured, you come throughout an experiment that imbues you with elastic powers and this actually kicks off your journey.
Bionic Bay is damaged up into chaptered ranges the place you have to to traverse traps, pitfalls, damaged pipes, platforms, bombs, dying spikes, sludge, molten steel, and so on. The listing of risks is kind of intense and belief me on this one, you’ll die. Lots. What good is a contemporary platforming recreation if it isn’t difficult huh?
Fortunately although Bionic Bay appears to have had some actually smart designers who’ve realized the artwork of correct checkpointing, if you find yourself dying to a specific lure, chances are high you’ll respawn proper earlier than it and received’t should slog your manner by quite a few different traps earlier than merely dying once more. This immensely reduces the frustration issue and dare I say, makes the sport fairly addictive.
You’ll be able to merely attempt your greatest, fail, rinse and repeat till you get previous a specific dastardly part. This does nevertheless include a caveat which I’ll get to shortly however first let’s speak concerning the gameplay parts a bit.
In Bionic Bay, attributable to your aforementioned elasticity powers, gamers can bounce and bounce round fairly simply. A double bounce sprint of types will allow you to get throughout giant gaps and ultimately, you’ll acquire entry to a “swap” mechanic.
This enables your character to slap an object after which after urgent a button, immediately teleporting to the place the thing was whereas the thing teleports to the place you have been standing. Swapping locations with objects is important to progressing all through the sport and this mechanic is used to nice impact. Puzzles can typically have multiple manner of fixing the due to this mechanic too and it’s nice to see it in motion. Controls within the recreation are additionally very responsive and trigger minimal stress fortunately.
In a while within the recreation, you’ll additionally acquire entry to the gravity mechanic which was closely featured within the recreation’s pre-launch trailers. Nonetheless, this mechanic was severely underused within the recreation and I actually anticipated much more of it however alas, this isn’t the case. There are segments the place you’ll have to mix all of your skills to get by and these are fairly satisfying to finish if you lastly determine issues out.
This additionally brings me to 1 main gripe that I’ve with Bionic Bay. The sport is kind of inconsistent. Earlier ranges are extremely effectively finished and also you’ll be hooked. Nonetheless, as the sport goes on, slowly however absolutely a degree of frustration creeps its manner in when the puzzles begin to turn out to be related and repetitive. This basically turns a number of ranges right into a mildly painful grind of trial and error as you attempt to get previous them. To alleviate this drawback, I might counsel enjoying Bionic Bay in shorter bursts so the fatigue doesn’t set in.
Graphically, the sport is totally lovely with the 2D setting that includes loads of attractive visuals to absorb. The 2D world is eery, creepy and fairly vibrant at occasions with vibrant neon lights saturating the remainder of the gritty post-apocalyptic world. The sport’s aesthetic simply gels completely with the kind of recreation it’s and actually, it jogged my memory of each Limbo, Inside and a platformer I performed 5 years in the past referred to as Stela. Environmental storytelling does a whole lot of heavy lifting in propelling you ahead.
The sport’s soundtrack additionally matches it completely with loads of music tracks which have been crafted completely for the degrees they’re utilized to. The ambient vibes of among the tracks go well with the visuals completely and after they’re interspersed with the sound results of explosions, steel thunking, lasers firing and extra, it’s nice.
The sport additionally options on-line leaderboards for speedrunners to have a go at and whereas I don’t suppose I personally can be making an attempt this, I’m certain there will probably be a distinct segment group of players who will completely love this truth. This additionally provides longevity to the sport which wouldn’t essentially be there if this feature wasn’t included.
Remaining Verdict
Bionic Bay is a superb 2D puzzle Platformer that can preserve you busy for roughly round 8 hours or extra relying on how briskly you attempt to velocity by ranges. It is best to undoubtedly play this recreation in chunk sized chunks although to make sure that you don’t put on your self out on the puzzles and don’t frustrate your self an excessive amount of when it turns into repetitive or difficult.
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