While it has a more vertical approach for platforming – because you’re constantly getting deeper into the bottom of the mines –, it also demands the player to think about the best way to shape the terrain. Consequently, the game has quite the unique mindset for exploring. They vary in composition, so some may take more hits to be broken, some may ask for a specific approach or tool, and others are completely indestructible. Most of the mines and caves you explore in SteamWorld Dig 2 are formed entirely of blocks. The A button, then, is used to attack with your pickaxe in any direction you’re facing… and, here’s the catch, you can use it to break part of the scenery. The basics are there: you can press B to jump – and doing that on a wall allows you to wall-jump to reach higher areas. To reach the city, though, you must cross a starting tutorial area, in which you’ll learn not only the basics of SteamWorld Dig‘s mechanics but also the little twists that the game has to offer to the platform genre. Therefore, the player must control the cheerful and charismatic Dorothy, and venture through the mines down the city in the hopes of finding more clues about Rusty’s whereabouts. Rumours point to the city of El Machino as the place in which he was last seen. Now, SteamWorld Dig 2 returns to the moment that succeeds the events of the first Dig game in order to answer any open questions and fill some gaps on the chronology.Īt the very beginning of the game, you learn that Rusty, the quiet and stern protagonist of Dig 1, disappeared mysteriously. These games are all set in an alternative reality in which steam-driven robots are the inhabitants of a Wild West-like world – as well as the space world of the turn-based strategy counterpart that is SteamWorld Heist.
If you’ve never heard about the games made by Image & Form before, it is important to know that SteamWorld Dig 2 isn’t only the sequel to the first game in the SteamWorld Dig series, but it also takes place in the well-crafted and ever-expanding SteamWorld universe.
If you’re still wondering if it’s worth of such a spotlight – oh, boy! – you’re not really digging how amazing this game is! Still, games such as SteamWorld Dig 2 are given time to shine on both Nintendo’s Directs and Nindies Showcases. It becomes harder for indie devs to get enough attention for their games, especially when it has to divide space not only with other equally amazing indies but also with bigger and more famous franchises. Even if you take into account the fact that the Switch is relatively new, its eShop is becoming more crowded as time goes on (others platforms are in an overpopulated state already).
0 kommentar(er)
