We went hands-on with HighonLife one last time before its launch and were surprised to find some Metroid DNA in it.
As I was sitting down to play the final demo of High on Life, Chief Creative Officer Mikey Spano said the magic word: Metroid.
I quickly found that the world had much more optional, explorable space than I saw in my first demo. At one point, I sauntered into a saloon filled with random NPCs that I could talk to, including a flute-playing alien with a very wiggly butt. Spano noted that I was the first player in two days of demos to walk into the saloon at all. At another point, I found a “warp” point that opened up a side scene where a miniature city appeared before me and a tiny NPC invited me to explore it.
The Metroid Prime influence is immediately clear in its gameplay too. This slice was much more traversal heavy, as I used my pal Knifey to grapple over gaps and solve platforming puzzles using my globshot . Its most-involved puzzle had me connecting a pipe pathway by shooting the correct junctions into place. Calling it a shooter is a bit misleading; it’s a first-person adventure game.
That idea is the real heart of High on Life’s combat, and even its general traversal too. Part of that vision was inspired by Doom Eternal , but Spano says that the team at Squanch was moving toward that idea even before that game launched.
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