Should you’re on the lookout for one thing quick, free, easy of idea and nice of execution to play this Decemberween, might I like to recommend Grimhook, a first-person action-platformer which had the misfortune to launch on ninth December, whereas the whole videogame journalism occupation have been recovering from the Geoffapocalypse. Right here’s the setup: you’re an irreverent younger man referred to as Dart exploring a bunch of caves with assistance from a grappling hook and a grumpy goddess trapped in a pebble.
Because of the goddess, Dart can carry out such supernatural feats as double-jumping, aerial dashes, wall-runs and summoning ghost tentacles to spring himself off the ground, which might be the least horrible use of ghost tentacles I’ve encountered in any recreation that types itself “Lovecraftian”. All these methods permit him to enterprise into numerous sunken ruins and batter the mysterious robots who’re troubling his cliffside dwelling. It nearly looks like proof-of-concept for a first-person Prince of Persia recreation, with an ever-so-gentle dusting of Portal.
Grimhook has a “correct” story, with voice-acted dialogue and a few background mythology to plunder, however its, haha, hook is the gratifying sense of momentum once you begin chaining skills in one fell swoop, utilizing dashes and grapples to remain airborne for tens of seconds at a time. The cooldown in your skills is intuitive, and the platforming layouts are stability of easy-to-read and visually absorbing, with the same old telltale highlighted surfaces dotted in amongst bits of ruined structure and vegetation. The enemies play an element in traversal too: you’ll be able to launch small bots skyward to make use of as grappling factors.
It goes down really easy you’ll in all probability attain the end simply as you are feeling such as you’re getting began. I’d fortunately play a 5-10 hour expertise based mostly on this framework, however for the second, it is a beautiful technique to polish off Friday. Discover it on Steam.
