Neon White Is Lastly Coming To PlayStation On December 13

Neon White was certainly one of 2022’s most nice stunned when it landed earlier this yr, in some way managing to mix old-school shooters with speed-running, a card recreation and Persona’s social hyperlinks. Now, having been out since June on different platforms, PlayStation house owners will lastly be capable of play the sport.

Having initially launched on PC and Swap, Neon White is out on each PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on December 13. And whereas the PS4 model goes to be a reasonably straight port, the PS5 version shall be profiting from the superior {hardware} to convey stuff like working at a fixed 120hz and utilizing the SSD drives to hurry up load instances (which can make an enormous distinction when it’s essential restart a degree for the 97th time).

Most apparently, although, and in a transfer that can set the PS5 model other than all of the others, is that it’ll be utilizing the console’s adaptive triggers. As director Ben Esposito says on the PlayStation Blog:

Neon White additionally makes use of PS5’s adaptive triggers to make every Soul Card really feel distinctive if you fireplace them in addition to if you discard. Controller Haptics present an additional degree of suggestions on high of that. You’ll really feel it if you’re shifting sooner on water and also you’ll get a delicate affirmation if you efficiently snipe a distant demon. Our purpose wasn’t simply to make you’re feeling cool, however so that you can develop a sixth sense. To show you right into a speedrunning freak.

Our impressions of the sport again in June just about summed up the sport’s enchantment:

I’ve spent the previous few days attempting to determine why this weird concoction of parts clicks, and I feel I’ve it. Final summer time, throughout Neon White’s preliminary advertising and marketing push, Esposito instructed me, “The vitality that powers this recreation is teen vitality. That is what I might have thought was the best factor ever once I was a youngster impressed by, like, Y2K era-anime and The Matrix and all these items.” Now that the sport’s truly in my palms, this ethos is plainly evident—proper all the way down to the anime-inspired intro.