While you can simply run around at a slower pace, you’ll spend most of your time skating by holding the left trigger, which gives you greater momentum across jumps and grants better manoeuvrability in combat. Solar Ash is primarily a platformer, where you skate around areas, bound across chasms, and solve traversal puzzles. The movement mechanics are equally well realised. Her connection to an ally AI called Cyd is a recurring highlight, but there’s a surprising amount of humour in the game’s handful of side quests – adding a darkly comic edge and personality to its world, which could have easily coasted on surface-level prettiness. As a protagonist, Rei is charming, understated and just as bewildered by some of the strange characters you’ll meet as you are. It’s all grounded by some great writing and voicework. The bright, luscious landscapes are offset by a subtle, foreboding soundtrack, which captures a calm-before-the-storm dread that keeps the apocalyptic stakes at the forefront of your mind. Each area presents a new visual marvel for screenshot addicts, from desecrated tower blocks nestled within a sea of blue clouds to ominous caves beneath neon-lit gardens. The narrative intrigue works because the presentation is consistently stunning. Like Hyper Light Drifter, there’s a main narrative which provides a resolution of sorts, but it’s up to the player to interpret the environment and piece together details from journal entries to fully decipher what’s going on. Throughout the dreamscape black hole, you’ll discover what happened to previous voidrunners through collectible audio logs. However, Rei isn’t the first to be sent on this mission.
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