Revita is a 2D platforming roguelite twin-stick shooter from small indie developer BenStar. You play as a younger blue-haired little one, who awakens on the metro with no recollection of who they’re. When leaving the practice, you’re 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 resembling 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 combat, 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 also 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 principle foreign money. You’ll must gamble along with your life within the purpose of turning into stronger. The objects in Revita are so effectively designed that it makes you wish to take each single one, nevertheless you could make sacrifices to outlive. It actually makes you cease and assume by means of each choice fastidiously earlier than committing to it: do you have to sacrifice three hearts for a 20 per cent injury enhance? Do you have to open this chest for a single coronary heart? Or do you have to simply save your well being for the boss combat forward? Being grasping actually doesn’t repay right here however managing your well being accurately may be very pleasant and is extraordinarily satisfying when completely deliberate, leaving you inside an inch from dying.
You’ll be beginning and ending every run in Memoria Station, which can turn 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 bundle completely. There is a easy however cutesy pixel artwork fashion and a few gloriously enjoyable background music, which could have you buzzing away even when not enjoying — it’s the entire bundle.
Revita is a straightforward to select up however powerful 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 robust competitors with the largest and finest within the style (The Binding of Isaac, Lifeless Cells, and Enter the Gungeon) for the highest spot.
