Getting around the game’s universe takes time, even at top speeds – but the journey is often the point, allowing players plenty of chances to take in the dazzling scenery, the majesty of the expanse, the scale of the universe.Ĭhorus also presents a deeply personal story centred on Nara, a pilot on the run from an intergalactic cult – and her own past as part of it. That’s not to say the game feels slow – quite the opposite, especially when you’re in the middle of battling a swarm of enemy gunships that are zooming all around you – but rather that speed is used in service of scale. In Chorus, developer Fishlabs has overcome that problem, capturing the sheer daunting scale of space by essentially crimping speed. READ MORE: ‘Solar Ash’ review: stylish platformer is a simple yet mesmerizing space trip.How do you make someone feel integral to the cosmos while also showing them they’re little more than a mote of dust on the galactic winds? The universe as we know it is indefinably vast, so any title casting players into the void needs to somehow convey the enormity of it, while still making a contained game world that can be explored without players feeling infinitesimally small.
Scale is an interesting problem for developers to solve in spacebound games.
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