Motorslice's demo is a promising and challenging taste of its chainsaw parkour

I’d astir missed that that Motorslice present has a Steam demo out, contempt enticing gifs of its Brutalist wallrunning and slicey, Metal Gear Rising-tinged chainsword combat repeatedly uncovering their mode into my Bluesky provender for months. I’m liking it truthful far, though don’t fto its swingbars and trundling excavator enemies instrumentality you into reasoning this is immoderate airy platformer jaunt.

It is, successful fact, rather tricky. Motorslice drops hints of wackiness – its sanction is derived from the signifier of slamming your limb into a partition and being yanked on by its cycling, biting teeth – and yet traversing the factual megastructure requires care, adjacent patience. P, your waifu-bait freerunner, has beardown hands and pb feet, truthful there’s a weightiness to question that’s casual to underestimate, particularly connected the modulation betwixt moves. I deed the ungraded aggregate times by wrongly expecting Ghostrunner-tier sharpness erstwhile pinging crossed walls.

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It's not sluggish, mind. It’s conscionable a substance of getting a consciousness for P’s pace, aft which it becomes overmuch much satisfying to concatenation unneurotic hops, runs, and slides into smooth, astir rhythmic sequences of hazard-dodging. Once you’ve got a grip connected it, the consciousness of exertion becomes an outright strength, particularly during the demo’s climax: scaling a titanic, malevolent dump truck, its changeless rumbling lone heightening the peril of making a slip. Like Shadow of the Colossus, if the Colossi were the benignant of concern machinery you’re not expected to run aft having a paracetamol.

Fighting the lesser operation 'bots is besides harder than it looks, albeit successful a overmuch quicker, punchier way. While a chainsaw changeable bisects them successful a azygous hit, you’re conscionable arsenic fragile yourself, and the force diggers are some faster and much galore than your anime tomboy. Non-boss battles are, thus, each astir getting successful speedy and striking first, chopped actuators forming heaps successful the soil earlier your leaf finishes revving down. Brief yet agleam flashes of near-instinctive action, to counterbalance the much considered parkour.

No merchandise day connected this one, but I’m gladsome there’s seemingly much to Motorslice than parryposting. Here’s a nexus to the demo again.