This is one of the areas where I feel Axiom Verge has really improved over Metroid itself. Guns are also liberally given as rewards for exploration, as are upgrades that apply to all (or at least most) weapons, such as extra damage, range or bullet size.
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For the most part you are simply free to use guns because you like them. Traversal by the end of the game is a fast, very fun affair with few, but well understood limits.Īs mentioned, exploration isn’t just about guns–and there’s something amazingly liberating about this separation of guns from tools.
Axiom Verge has many of these, and will have you rethinking prior rooms and limitations as you go on. That magical moment where the impossible becomes possible is essential to a proper Metroidvania. When you see a room that’s just impossible, that just clearly doesn’t have anything of importance in it, or when you just find something hidden in plain sight. Instead of opening colored locks there are a variety of creative solutions to roadblocks, such as “glitching” enemies to take advantage of their erratic behavior. Instead Axiom Verge quickly starts tossing unique mechanics like the Glitch Gun. You’ll find there are very few cases where doors require specific guns to unlock, you won’t be comparing colors of doors to your latest gear. Early on you get your drill and your Glitch Gun and everything seems pretty straightforward–in fact, a lot of the gameplay progression feels like a deliberate call back to Metroid’s way of doing things, down to the “go to the left to get your first power up”.īut before long Axiom Verge starts to subvert the expectations you’re likely to have. I’ll admit when I played the first few areas of Axiom Verge I had a great time but I kept seeing signposts of pretty standard traversal mechanics–get a new jump to let you go more up, get a new gun to help you open doors.
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