There are even more pacifistic ways of taking down foes too, as you’re able to hack most of them and turn them off, slow them down, or even turn them against each other. In fact, you don’t really have much in the way of ranged weapons like before, and every boss in the game (bar one, I think) can be ignored entirely unless you’re after 100% completion. It’s the gameplay that really shines here, and Axiom Verge 2 eschews the normal combat-filled exploration of the game type with the scales tilted far more in favour of exploring than smacking stuff. I recall the first game had a similar plot complexity and I’m sure recalling that better would shine more light here, but actually, you can mostly ignore it without detriment. The plot is complicated, and references worlds that are linked, different civilisations on at least three of these worlds (one of which is Earth), but it’s interesting if difficult to get your head round. This lets you reach areas which would otherwise be blocked, by sort of skipping round them via a fourth dimension. It does away with the “glitch” mechanics of the original, but replaces them with a sort of subspace, low res, corruption of the main world that you can slip in and out of in a similar way to how the two worlds work in Link to the Past. Which is a sign of a fantastic game in this genre, as far as I’m concerned.Īxiom Verge 2 isn’t really a sequel to the first game, as it’s more of a tangental story that is linked but separate for the most part. It’ll come a no surprise, then, that I pounced on Axiom Verge 2 the second I was able to get it from the eShop, and here I am telling you I’ve completed it.Īnd not just completed, but 100%ed – all items, all the map, everything. As you explore this big, interconnected alternate Earth, it starts to feel really rewarding to have gained a mastery of how your character can move through it.I do love a good metroidvania, and I’ve played a fair few in the last year or so, and the original Axiom Verge was a great metroidvania.
The Grapple is the most familiar returning ability, while others feel either like fresh interpretations of old movement skills or completely new. Once you get to the latter-half of Axiom Verge 2 though, some really fun movement options begin to open up. This might be because, early on, Indra herself doesn’t have so many movement options her big early-game upgrades are things like getting to climb up walls, but that ends up paling in comparison to later-game movement abilities.
It’s actually incorporated into the story in a very interesting way, and movement-wise, it feels incredibly fun to flit around as. I’ll say, without too many spoilers, that what Happ does with the drone in Axiom Verge 2 might be some of my favorite Axiom Verge content, period.
Then there’s the drone, returning once again to provide more movement options and alternate routes. I eventually had a good grasp of the world, especially as the story focused more on current events and some surprising, fun twists, but I felt a little out of my depth lore-wise early on. I’d have to flip back through various notes I’d made to myself to remember which character knew who and how, and how some names connected to others. This isn’t a bad thing, but at least early on, it feels like big names and references start getting chucked at you before you have time to really contextualize them. One of the more noticeable differences in Axiom Verge 2, for me, was it felt like it put the story and universe building a little more at the forefront. As you explore the world, its structure will immediately start to feel familiar some ledges are just out of reach, or some rocks look suspiciously fragile, and you’ll venture across this new plane to find the equipment-Arms-you’ll need to get through them. Axiom Verge 2 follows Indra, a tech CEO who finds herself plunging into alternate worlds filled with biotech monsters and strange, godlike beings, much like Trace in the first Axiom Verge.
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