For day 17 of the RPS Advent Calendar this 12 months, you are feeling the necessity – the necessity for pace. There’s a phenomenal load of ranges to leap by means of on the market, and in the event you can take out all of the enemies in your method then a lot the higher.
Hope we tricked at the least certainly one of you there, as a result of it is Neon White time, child!
Alice0: Neon White is a speedrunning FPS set throughout vaporwave Heaven, the place a gang of anime fool criminals have been raised to defeat demons. Playing as an embarrassing anime fool, we’re attempting to climb the leaderboards of Heaven’s demon-killers by dashing and taking pictures by means of ranges as quick as we are able to. All of the weapons we discover scattered about ranges provide bonus motion skills, starting from air-dashes and double-jumps to rocketing round and high-speed stomps. All it’s important to do is attain the top and kill all demons alongside the way in which. Levels are brief, most taking lower than one minute—however the actual Neon White is attempting to finish them a lot, a lot sooner than that.
Neon White’s ranges current apparent routes to take. You can rating the bronze, silver, and gold medals on every degree by following the plain route, climbing the tiers by meandering much less, aiming sooner, protecting on the transfer. The level that Neon White turns into Neon White is if you push into the ace tier and past. To rating the ace medal, you have to not solely nail your efficiency, you have to break from the plain route by discovering a brand new use for a motion means or questioning the perceived bounds of the extent. Skips, methods, and lightning-fast aiming will get you there. And from there, properly, it is easy to fall into chasing the dev medal instances, after which chasing the leaderboards.
This is Neon White at its finest: seeing past what a degree seems to be, determining your personal little methods, revelling in each split-second shaved, lastly nailing a tough skip, then coming to grasp that skip and making it one other motion carried out unconsciously, and celebrating each place climbed on the leaderboards. It is an excellent feeling to nail a run and set a brand new finest time, but the sensation that I might do one part only a bit higher by no means goes away. I used to be very blissful to have Neon White ranges operating at the back of my head for a number of weeks this 12 months, often throwing up potential options that I’d should sprint to my PC to test.
All the whereas, you are zipping by means of a phenomenal imaginative and prescient of Heaven, listening to incredible music, and hanging out together with your fool anime friends. I do know some discover this impolite ‘tude off-putting however I’m fairly fond of those idiots and right here for his or her daft plans.
Logging again into Neon White now, I see our Ollie has beat a few of my leaderboard instances by as little as 4 milliseconds. God rattling it. Alright, I have to now go attempt to reclaim these positions.
Liam: I’ve solely performed a couple of hours of Neon White (and loved it lots!) but it surely’s the soundtrack that is caught with me greater than the game itself. Composed by Machine Girl, these high-intensity beats are a strong pairing for doing boring duties round the home. Honestly, attempt hoovering whereas pumping Glass Ocean into your cranium. You’ll end up doing sick drifts previous the espresso desk and sliding down the bannisters to attempt to beat your PB. It’s phenomonal.