Doublefine’s Keeper may have the most popular dual video games since Banjo and Kazooie

Some time has passed since Tim Chevir made a press, as he admits. Double Fine, a studio famous Psychonau Series, trying to explain a guardApproach game for puzzle where you are, literally, walking beacon. Double Fine is now one of the many studios that Microsoft has bought, and the team seems to have seized the opportunity to wander around all available resources, and said: “Make something strange.”

It is definitely that. Colors and atmosphere a guard You have at least a touch of Psychonau DNA. a guard Putting players in controlling the aforementioned lighthouse, woke up (and joined) by a curious, aggressive bird sometimes called Twig. Interestingly, the beacon does not have a name currently.

My Betty, the Double Fine coach, reached the concept of the game, inspired by his time walking during the Covid-19s. This is reflected in several ways, whether the hills and landscapes that the stereotypes roam, or the fact that there is no single dialogue word. The reactions between the birds and the building are similar, which seem to outperform both pieces of pieces and play, such as shorts pixar.

Environmental environments have a surreal style, and the absence of a map, a healthy tape, or any HUD at all, means that you do not distract your attention while exploring and solving puzzles.

In some early play shots, I saw how the main shape of the interaction of the lighthouse comes from the light beam. Not only this helps you search for paths and creatures, but you can also focus on countless creatures. Sometimes, this causes creatures to flee, while at other times, they will offer magical celestial bodies with good minds and without unwillingness, which open subsequent areas or bring tall creatures (structures?) To life. In a highly high style, things look strange as well, with melted mountain peaks with more than Dost from DOLI.

It was not Ownership To attack everything too. During three different experimental offers, I saw all kinds of creatures hiding and operating only in this world as humanity has long disappeared. Oh, there is a giant flight whale as well.

The use of a beacon will leave on certain things a sparkling spark behind, which means that the conquest can interact with it. During a later category, the light can manipulate time, and turns her companion to the egg while the building repairs itself – and a path is liberated. Twig remains an egg for a period of time until later, when the lighthouse can fast. Such capabilities seem to depend on the site, instead of a set of skills of Metroidvania that were built on the game. At another turn, the lighthouse enters a cloud of thin pink fog, cancel the ability to jump and float around the levels.

Chevir says that the topics of changing life and shift will continue to explode during a guard and The duo and bird lighthouse are essential for all of this. He reminds me a little Banjo Kazwi (The latter was a bird) but too ICO; At one point, the non -engraved lighthouse apparently lose its foot, but Twig tries to pull its partner to safety. Did the branches help? Maybe not, but the feeling was there.

a guard It will be launched on Soff Series S | X and PC on October 17, including Xbox Game Pass.