As you tentatively nudge the joystick you see the scene play out frame-by-frame pushing the stick gently to move to the side, the action speeds up to meet you, unfurling in time relative to your movement. You can see all the threats that spread out ahead of you enemies rushing into position, cover, weapons to grab, and bullets streaking along the screen, leaving harsh red trails across your vision. In practice, this is tense – far more tense than you’d expect, perhaps than it has any right to be. In Superhot, time only moves when you do.
You see, Superhot understands these concerns. Bullets don’t move unless you do? Everything moves in relative speed to you? Doesn’t that mean the game is easy as you dance about in permanent bullet time, dodging bullets by millimetres before taking your time to dispatch every hostile in the stage? Well, no. It’s an idea so simple that it almost seems ludicrous. Superhot is a first-person shooter where time only moves when you move. I haven’t even explained what type of game Superhot is, or what makes it so engrossing, so allow me to sum it up.
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There is absolutely nothing in this game that doesn’t need to be here it’s just you, a bare handful of actions, and a series of stages to conquer.
However, it is mechanically where I think Superhot excels in fact I think in those terms Superhot might be as close to perfect as one could want. I appreciate what it’s trying to do, even if it doesn’t wholly resonate with me. Still, I confess I would probably find the plot more compelling if I were a teenager again, and a slightly edgier one at that it has a general feel of Chuck Palahniuk to it, filtered through a cyberpunk / computer-age dystopia. The brevity works marvellously in its favour it features around 30 missions but the narrative is tightly designed, hitting you in bursts and flurries. However, it certainly has one, and it takes itself rather seriously, but it’s also a very brief campaign – maybe 2 or 3 hours at most – and it would be remiss of me to deny you the experience I had going in blind. Superhot trades on its gameplay gimmick, so it was largely a surprise to me that it has any kind of plot at all. Why unsettling? Well, I’m afraid to explain would be to spoil, and I don’t think that’s my place to do that. I wasn’t expecting it to end up quite so unsettling. I suppose I figured that it was just a cute foible of Superhot. Like a literal meme buried in the mind, they’ve certainly been jangling around in my head since I first saw game footage back in 2016. If you’ve played the game at all, those two words, said in a deep monotone endlessly as you beat a level and watch it replay before you, are probably going to be ringing deep in your subconscious for years. Released | Developed / Published: Superhot Team Superhot (PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One, VR) Superhot is the most innovative shooter I’ve played in years. Still, every now and again I can manage to rouse myself from a stupor enough to play something new, and figured I should give Superhot a spin finally. It is, after all, the curse of the backlog, to have a million games but nothing to play. It’s a game I’ve been aware of since it was released due to the high praise it got from some of my favourite reviewers at the time, but until now I’d just never gotten around to trying it.
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Superhot is another one of those games that I’ve had sitting on my PS4 for ages.
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