Phrases like ‘lightsabers’, ‘Sith Lords’ and ‘droids’ won’t instantly carry the video games of Nintendo to thoughts, however in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (the most recent big-budget sport set in a galaxy far, far-off) one of many Huge N’s most iconic sequences will get a pleasant little nod.
As shared on Twitter by Large Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb, one early part of the sport sees you studying easy methods to wall soar in a very comparable method to the way you do within the 1994 SNES basic, Tremendous Metroid. In fact, we’re not referring to the precise act of wall leaping (heck, most platformers might be mentioned to comprise a reference in that case), however as an alternative how the sport teaches you to make use of the power. As a substitute of a ‘Double-tap A’ command showing on the display screen, Jedi: Survivor sees Cal Kestis studying the ropes from a trio of fluffy buddies.
As alluded to by Grubb, the sequence very carefully mirrors the wall soar ‘tutorial’ from Tremendous Metroid, through which Samus is proven (not instructed) what to do by the Etecoon — the three monkey-like creatures that leap up the partitions and encourage the protagonist to do the identical.
It is unlikely that we’ll see Jedi: Survivor head to a Nintendo console any time quickly (if ever), however this little nod to one of many firm’s biggest video games has managed to carry a smile to our faces all the identical — even when it has introduced again some unhealthy recollections of one of the vital irritating mechanics to get the grasp of…
