These are necessary to power a gigantic, monolithic piece of technology called the Starseed - which, in turn, is the only hope to close the black hole itself and save Rei’s planet from imminent destruction. You are Rei, a Voidrunner who has ventured inside a black hole called The Ultravoid, and you’re trying to find out what happened to each of your companions and ensure the conduits they set up throughout the different sectors of the void are operational. In Solar Ash you’re faced with platforming challenges, light puzzles, enemy encounters, bosses, and impossible spaces - and you glide your way through it all, accompanied by an appropriately atmospheric, synth-driven sci-fi score. Solar Ash’s vivid colour palette is evocative of developer Heart Machine’s last game, Hyper Light Drifter, but transposed to a 3D open-world, in which momentum is the overriding design principle.

The game will likely drop within the next few months, and in the meantime, its developer could continue to hint at even more secrets that lurk in the Ultravoid.Rei contemplates the Ultravoid before leaping in. While Hearth Machine has teased its plans for Solar Ash a couple of times already, there's still a lot left to be revealed. If true, this could be starkly different from the various enemy archetypes she will encounter, which each have their own unique attacks and specific weaknesses. Preston described Solar Ash's combat as ' simple, fast, and fluid.' The gameplay trailer makes it seem like Rei only has one attack button that players can repeatedly press to have her unleash a combination of slashes.

Heart Machine appears to have addressed this potential problem by adding trails of pink goo globs, much like The Pathless's traversal, that are either an in-game currency or somehow power up Rei's combat abilities, which haven't been explained in detail yet.

Solar Ash's open-world design might make it difficult to understand where Rei needs to go to progress through the story. Related: Hyper Light Drifter Ending Explained

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