Ultros doesn't just adopt a psychedelic aesthetic; from its themes to its game design, it's genuinely psychedelic through and through.
Remember when games were mysterious? When all you had to go on was context, trial and error, and whatever that slim little instruction manual told you? Most games today are desperate to be understood, walking you by the hand through tutorials and training stages, teaching you exactly how to interact with it and explore it within the game itself.
This is a game where you constantly cycle through life and death in a boundless technicolor void known as the Sarcophagus, simultaneously adrift in space and rooted in soil. Where you encounter characters who aren’t quite sure why they’re there or what they’re doing, and who refer to off-screen lives that may or may not ever be explained within the game. Where you regularly bathe in a robotic orb filled with tie-dye amniotic fluid to save your game.
is as psychedelic as its music and art. And that’s genuinely shocking, as few games are as fiercely devoted to the psychedelic aesthetic as this one. The bright, brilliant artwork by El Huervo channels the twisty chaos of comics legend Brendan McCarthy (who might be better known today as the co-writer and designer ofcaptures the yawning, dramatic stillness of Popol Vuh, the ambient German rock group who soundtracked several Herzog films.
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