The Breach really blows open the game, particularly when you gain more freedom in travelling between the worlds. It’s an intoxicating place, contrasting nicely with the more grounded nature of the overworld. In the more cramped setting of the Breach, you control your adorable drone sidekick, bashing enemies and dodging traps while listening to synth prog-rock cover versions of an already extraordinary soundtrack. Unexplored map sections are actually devious navigation puzzles The Breach is a separate map-laid atop, or below, the primary one-but with a mostly different layout, and a wildly different visual style: super low-res and with a colour palette that hasn’t been seen since '70s sci-fi. You’ve seen the feature before in games, probably in other Metroidvanias, where the two dimensions are just reskinned versions of each other. However, its standout feature is actually borrowed from The Legend of Zelda: there’s another world running parallel to this one. The newly fleshed-out world encompasses several distinct biomes, linking together in a more organic way than its boxy predecessor. It feels weird to say that combat is downplayed, in a game brimming with diverse enemies, but that’s only because the exploration side has received such a significant rework. As someone who dreads the bosses in Hollow Knight, for that very reason, I’m very much in favour of this change. Axiom Verge 2 doesn’t want to interrupt the flow of exploration. But there are no locked-off boss arenas-two encounters with the villain excluded-and no giant health bars to whittle down before you can progress. Oh, there’s a perfunctory final battle, and some optional scraps against unique enemies.
There’s just as much fighting here, with one key exception: there are no boss fights in Axiom Verge 2.
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