How do you observe up a beloved one-off – retaining what made it particular, however increasing its world and concepts meaningfully? Shade Grey has managed a really deft steadiness right here – that is successfully the sport , however a setting you actually, actually don’t. Removed from persevering with the place we left off, Rise picks up entire centuries after the occasions of the primary sport, on this world’s equal of the Nineteen Seventies. For followers of Case, it signifies that, even you probably have all of the backstory, you’re simply as misplaced within the context of this world, supplying you with the joys of placing all of the items again collectively as soon as once more.
It is a world the place the very actual Idol of the primary sport has not solely turn into a delusion, however been bodily damaged into items – and we uncover what occurs when folks start placing them again collectively once more. To present away any extra would spoil the surprises, nevertheless it’s protected to say that whereas it offers in comparable themes to the primary sport, it is a very totally different story.
On first look, you may assume that it is a very comparable sport, nevertheless. The essential method stays – every stage provides you a take a look at a really particular (virtually at all times violent) second in time, and provides the choice to click on on the folks and objects in that second, choosing up clues.