If Selene wants to break this deadly cycle with her sanity intact, she'll have to adapt and fight through the planet's deadliest biomes. Worse still, she keeps finding bodies of what can only be described as different versions of herself, cryptic and half-mad audio logs found on their remains. This keeps happening every time she dies to Atropos' wildlife. It is while exploring this world that Selene is eventually killed, but somehow wakes up next to her crashed ship, the entire planet of Atropos shifting and changing around her.
#RETURNAL PLOT FULL#
The planet is full of hostile alien life, as well as ruins containing remnants of a long dead alien race. You play as astronaut named Selene who has crashed on the alien planet of Atropos while trying to investigate a mysterious signal.
The set-up for Returnal is simple enough. Still the overall result is something genuinely special by Finnish developer Housemarque and the PlayStation 5's first true stellar new IP. But these elements can occasionally clash with one another, coupled with some weirdly omitted quality of life features which can take hamper the experience in spots. It is also a new gold standard for high-intensity bullet hell action that mixes together elements of roguelikes and metroidvanias that mixes into a deeply compelling gameplay loop. Thematically, it is a dark psychological sci-fi story that plays with themes of identity, memory, anxiety, and isolation, all built and framed to be intentionally open for speculation. Returnal can be equal parts exciting and frustrating, its peaks and valleys invoking a wide spectrum of emotions.
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