Revita is a 2D platforming roguelite twin-stick shooter from small indie developer BenStar. You play as a younger blue-haired baby, who awakens on the metro with no recollection of who they’re. When leaving the practice, you might be confronted with an extended journey of self-discovery as you ascend an ominous clocktower looking for your misplaced recollections. Alongside the way in which you’ll expertise some very hard-hitting themes similar to psychological well being points, grief, melancholy, loss, and suicide.
The clocktower is break up into a number of themed areas, every consisting of a complete of 15 rooms and a difficult boss struggle, primarily based on the phases of grief. In typical roguelite fashion, you might be offered with procedurally generated rooms and flooring full of quite a lot of fascinating creatures, slimes, maggots, flies, cultists, frogs, bees, mushrooms, and geese. Every enemy not solely has totally different actions and assaults however will even drop souls that’ll allow you to replenish your well being.
The place Revita actually shines is with its distinctive danger/reward mechanic, utilizing well being as the primary foreign money. You’ll need to gamble together with your life within the intention of turning into stronger. The objects in Revita are so properly designed that it makes you need to take each single one, nevertheless it’s essential to make sacrifices to outlive. It actually makes you cease and assume via each choice fastidiously earlier than committing to it: do you have to sacrifice three hearts for a 20 per cent harm enhance? Must you open this chest for a single coronary heart? Or do you have to simply save your well being for the boss struggle forward? Being grasping actually doesn’t repay right here however managing your well being appropriately could be very pleasing and is extraordinarily satisfying when completely deliberate, leaving you inside an inch from loss of life.
You’ll be beginning and ending every run in Memoria Station, which is able to change into a bustling hub of exercise as you progress and unlock new characters, weapons, objects, and secrets and techniques. The huge array of unlocks and secrets and techniques in Revita is astounding.
It’s not solely Revita’s design that shines right here because the pleasing presentation polishes off this package deal completely. There is a easy however cutesy pixel artwork fashion and a few gloriously enjoyable background music, which can have you buzzing away even when not enjoying — it’s the whole package deal.
Revita is a straightforward to choose up however robust to grasp twin-stick shooter, offered with attractive visuals and catchy music. It’s addictive gameplay loop, balanced danger/reward mechanics, and abundance of content material places it in sturdy competitors with the largest and finest within the style (The Binding of Isaac, Useless Cells, and Enter the Gungeon) for the highest spot.