Teslagrad 2 Assessment (PS5) | Push Sq.

Teslagrad 2 is a sequel to the well-received PS4 title, Teslagrad, developed by Rain Video games. It’s a three to 5 hour Metroidvania-style 2D puzzle platformer wherein you play as a younger woman, Lumina. Whereas out coaching to grow to be a teslamancer, she crashes her airship in Wyrmheim, stranding her on this treacherously overseas land to the north of her hometown, Teslagrad. Utilizing her varied electrifying and magnetic skills you could resolve puzzles, keep away from risks, and discover your environment to find a protected path to return house.

Teslagrad 2’s puzzles focus closely on its terrific traversal with most of the unlockable skills enhancing your swift actions. You purchase each an electrical sprint and slide very early on, which makes for some extraordinarily satisfying moments when chained collectively properly; sliding down a slope after which dashing by an electrical energy beam avoiding demise by a hair’s breadth is so thrilling. Mixed along with your magnetic capability of attracting or repelling your self towards or away from platforms, you’ve gotten the instruments to construct up fairly the momentum to attain some impressively excessive or lengthy jumps.

As you progress and unlock extra weapons and skills, which have taken inspiration from Nordic mythology, the puzzles grow to be tougher, requiring extra exact jumps or extra correct timing to keep away from getting burnt to a crisp. That is to be anticipated however ought to you end up caught on a puzzle or not understanding the place to go to progress, there aren’t any hints or steering offered. We discovered ourselves on a number of events being utterly stumped by what seemed to be dead-end rooms solely to later work out our new capability had a perform the sport didn’t even inform us about.

In between all of the platforming you’ll be confronted with a handful of difficult boss battles. These being too troublesome was a significant criticism of the unique recreation and evidently suggestions has been taken on board. Earlier than coming into each boss space, you’re introduced with a brand new protect capability, permitting you to take an additional hit earlier than demise. This has helped massively in balancing out the steep issue, though we nonetheless discovered a few encounters significantly unfair. We’re speaking about you, moose.

In the end, Teslagrad 2 is an agreeable successor with satisfying traversal and enjoyably difficult puzzles and boss fights. However with a brief runtime and an absence of hints and steering it fails to essentially enhance upon its predecessor. For those who loved Teslagrad and are searching for extra of the identical, this sequel will suffice.