Watch your cub pal grow into a wolf later this year
Nevais immediately recognisable as the next puzzle platformer from the developers behindGristhanks to its sweeping, overlapping planes and effortlessly natural watercolour art, which were both on show again in tonight’s Geoffest Summer Game Fest show. I was expecting more eye candy from Neva afterits announcement last summer, but what caught me by surprise was all the hacking and slashing that ensues in its second trailer.
Well, I’m definitely a sucker for those short, breezy platformers and the first half of the trailer above definitely lulled me into thinking Neva was more of the same. Until our red-capped hero and her ghostly wolf pet start bashing those gooey black creatures, that is.
What most interests me is how the two characters might bond over time, however. Our furry pal will grow from a wee cub to the imposing wolf (with deer antlers?) we see in the trailer, a journey that will supposedly test “Alba’s love and their commitment to one another.” I wonder if that might manifest in both the jumping and the slashing. At least one shot in the trailer shows the two mirroring each other’s moves to target foes on opposite ends of a platform, but all the reflected surfaces on show have me excited for more mirroring possibilities.
Neva is set to come out later this year on PC via Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.
