Even if its complicated gameplay leaves you lost, Ultros is a bold artistic vision that you need to see to believe.
Ultros MSRP $25.00 Score Details “Ultros is a bold and beautiful artistic vision, but a convoluted Metroidvania.” Pros Cons My bloody quest to kill a grotesque demon is about to reach its climax when I stop to do a bit of intergalactic gardening. Testing out a mysterious new tool I received, I blow a puff of blue gas at a hanging vine. At first, I’m confused as all I can seemingly do is slightly change the direction it’s growing in.
That’s equally matched by composer El Huervo’s positively hypnotic score. Like the art style, it’s a rich soundscape of textures that makes traditional strings and woodwinds sound like they’re beaming in from another planet. Everything in Ultros feels foreign and disorienting at first glance. The more I peel back the layers, though, the more I find familiar DNA under alien flesh. It pulls me back into the humanistic themes during moments where it feels like I’m drifting in space.
Both that and the unclear visual design makes exploration a pain too, which is a mortal sin for the genre. When I bump into a dead end, I’m often not even sure what the roadblock is. I lose that Metroidvania joy of taking mental note of an obstacle and having a eureka moment when I discover the new tool that can act as a key to that lock.
Out in the garden Ultros is much more successful when it’s focused on its most unique aspect: gardening. Throughout my journey, I can plant seeds in patches of soil to grow plants. That opens the door for some clever puzzling, as I can create a mushroom platform to reach a far-off ledge or grow yellow grass on a wall that I can run on. The long-term joys of it come from filling the ship up with plant life, transforming The Sarcophagus into a living planet.
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