nDreams’ last title, Fracked, wasn’t perfect, but it had great gameplay and lots of style. And that’s mostly what you get from Synapse, a roguelite shooter that requires you to infiltrate your mind to steal your memories.
Roguelite is all about incremental improvements. Once unlocked to some extent, you will eventually have to walk to be able to run. But with Synapse, this whole process is done on a significantly reduced scale. For games that can offer more content, this would be a good thing. However, in Synapse, the speed of progression quickly undermines the core experience of the game.
Completing the first run (something you can complete in an hour, maybe two) unlocks higher difficulty levels and gives you more story hints, but even then, there’s not much to do . The game has he two zones, each with several levels, and interestingly, they are not procedural.
Visually, the game is mostly monochrome, with color reserved for high-impact moments. The environment looks great, but because of this it gets blurry over time. However, the game’s overall fidelity is impeccable.Appearance of synapses good.
The real star is the gameplay. Enemies aren’t particularly smart, but they’re so aggressive that you can always blow something up with one of the few guns available in the title. There are many ways to do a permanent unlock, but the best alternative is to upgrade kinesis.
Kinesis is great. Impressive eye-tracking lets you squash, throw, and manipulate all sorts of items with a quick flick of the trigger, just by looking at something and selecting it. Some systems require a delicate grip on certain items, so by using haptic triggers, you need to be careful not to squeeze the trigger completely to avoid breaking what you are holding. This is the most impressive implementation of “The Force” from. Star Wars We have played so far and it is It contains Star Wars game.
Synapse is great mechanically, but the breadth of content is another story. This feels like a proof of concept for a complete experience, provided the amount of content matches the level of gameplay.
