Revita is a 2D platforming roguelite twin-stick shooter from small indie developer BenStar. You play as a younger blue-haired youngster, who awakens on the metro with no recollection of who they’re. When leaving the practice, you’re confronted with a protracted journey of self-discovery as you ascend an ominous clocktower searching for your misplaced recollections. Alongside the best way you’ll expertise some very hard-hitting themes comparable to psychological well being points, grief, melancholy, loss, and suicide.
The clocktower is cut up into a number of themed areas, every consisting of a complete of 15 rooms and a difficult boss struggle, based mostly on the levels of grief. In typical roguelite fashion, you’re offered with procedurally generated rooms and flooring stuffed with quite a lot of attention-grabbing creatures, slimes, maggots, flies, cultists, frogs, bees, mushrooms, and geese. Every enemy not solely has totally different actions and assaults however may even drop souls that’ll allow you to replenish your well being.
The place Revita actually shines is with its distinctive threat/reward mechanic, utilizing well being as the principle forex. You’ll must gamble together with your life within the purpose of turning into stronger. The gadgets in Revita are so nicely designed that it makes you need to take each single one, nonetheless it’s essential to make sacrifices to outlive. It actually makes you cease and suppose via each resolution rigorously earlier than committing to it: do you have to sacrifice three hearts for a 20 per cent injury 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 might be very satisfying 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 can grow to be a bustling hub of exercise as you progress and unlock new characters, weapons, gadgets, 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 stress-free background music, which can have you buzzing away even when not enjoying — it’s the whole package deal.
Revita is a straightforward to select up however powerful to grasp twin-stick shooter, offered with beautiful visuals and catchy music. It’s addictive gameplay loop, balanced threat/reward mechanics, and abundance of content material places it in sturdy competitors with the most important and finest within the style (The Binding of Isaac, Useless Cells, and Enter the Gungeon) for the highest spot.
