I’ve a smooth spot for perspective-switching video games, and AVA and the Half-World already appears like one to regulate. Whereas there’s no launch date in place, developer Bread Panda revealed the roguelite motion sport for PC in a trailer that reveals off its taking pictures in side- and forward-scrolling flavors.

The trailer additionally offers us a peek on the lovely artwork that fuels all of it, each in its characters and creatures and the colourful world they inhabit.  

In what appears like a futile affair, AVA’s future entails fading away with the remainder of the world. With the tip all however inevitable, AVA soars via the islands of the Sidereal Riptide, blasting away at enemies, accumulating artifacts, and hopefully fixing the mysteries that await. 

Because the trailer reveals, one of many key hooks of that journey is the way in which AVA can transition from firing away on a 2D airplane to blasting forth via visuals akin to traditional rail shooters like House Harrier. From what I can collect, not less than, it appears like extra of a visible trick that retains the side-scrolling fight on a distinct airplane. Nonetheless it might work, it’s nonetheless a really cool thought that appears nice in movement. 

Bread Panda took inspiration from roguelites and journey video games, with the previous lending itself to repeat expeditions that play out in distinctive methods. There’s additionally the mechanic of accumulating artifacts and selecting which to maintain and which to return to the Riptide, supplying you with the chance to customise AVA’s combating model with varied weapons and relics. AVA and the Half-World will finally be coming into an more and more busy area, however I’m eager on seeing how its key gimmick and idiosyncratic design sense play out in apply.