Haste: Damaged Worlds takes the stress-free loop of sliding down and leaping off hills from iOS traditional Tiny Wings and turns it into an exciting, high-speed, and 3D roguelike.
In Haste, you play as Zoe, a woman who sometimes delivers letters however has discovered herself mysteriously transported to the brand new worlds you run via. After I say run, I imply it: Zoe cannons via the sport.
Ranges are crammed with rolling hills, and your aim is to leap off the upslopes and land on the downslopes. The higher your landings, the extra you’ll improve your pace and construct a lift meter that can be utilized for issues like a burst ahead or a grappling hook.
Picture: Landfall
You’re incentivized to maintain your pace up. The sooner you full a stage, the upper grade you’ll get; larger grades offer you higher bonuses of issues like “sparks,” which you should utilize to purchase gadgets.
All through the colourful, procedurally generated ranges, you’ll additionally must keep away from obstacles like rocks, large Sarlacc-like pits, and machines that shoot lasers and bullets at you. If you happen to crash into an object, you’ll lose well being and decelerate. If you happen to’re too gradual, a crackling, damaging power will sneak up behind you. If you happen to run out of well being, you’ll lose a life. Lose all of your lives, and your run will finish.
There are some acquainted roguelike mechanics in Haste, like a forex you may spend between runs to completely enhance issues like your well being and enhance meters. Throughout runs, you’ll additionally choose every stage on a map. Haste has an ideal map characteristic that permits you to choose some or all your route upfront so to play a sequence of ranges with out interruption. It actually helps with the momentum.
When issues are going properly, it’s simple to succeed in an incredible circulate state the place you’re leaping from hills at breakneck pace, timing your landings and boosts, dodging obstacles in your path, and racing to the tip of each stage as quick as you may.
However on the finish of every zone (technically a “shard”), there’s a big boss — like a large flying snake — and so they had been typically complete buzzkills. The boss ranges power you to run via extra open-ended zones as an alternative of simply blasting ahead, and the sport simply isn’t as enjoyable and feels more durable within the open environments. Fortunately, you may change the sport’s problem stage.
The sport’s storytelling messes up the circulate, too. You’ll meet a bunch of characters, and whereas their personalities are enjoyable and their character portraits are illustrated properly, they typically present up in prolonged, compelled conversations between ranges. For a sport known as Haste, there are a number of lengthy chats!
These quibbles solely detracted a little bit from how a lot I loved Haste. At its finest, Haste retains you on the sting of your seat as you leap up and down from hills and careen via worlds. However when the sport modifications tempo, it may be irritating. I simply wish to go quick.
Haste: Damaged Worlds is now out there on PC.
