I got the most enjoyment out of Solar Ash when I was boosting off natural ramps and grinding on rails to see how high or far I could get without hitting a wall or falling cliff. Most things with Ash in its name are pretty neat
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Through void-powered grav boots, you can skate, boost, and rail grind your way through riotously colorful environments, collecting drops of blood that splatter the landscape, which you can spend to upgrade your shields. The big MacGuffin that will save your planet, however, is broken, requiring you to defeat several kaiju-like monsters called remnants in order to get the machine back online. In Solar Ash, you play a voidrunner tasked with saving your planet from the black hole that’s slowly sucking in your homeworld like my dog thinks will happen to him whenever I fire up the Hoover. But after a couple hours of grav-boosting my way through colorful but sterile environments and beating on the same handful of enemies, Solar Ash just couldn’t hold me - and that’s a shame since most things with Ash in its name are pretty neat.
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I thought it’d be easy to love or at least somewhat like a game made by the same folks who developed Hyper Light Drifter and published by the company that underwrote indie darlings Kentucky Route Zero and What Remains of Edith Finch. Solar Ash is a visually stunning though mechanically uninteresting game that I tried and failed to fall in love with.