Saros Review: Praise The Sun?

Platform: PS5 Genre: Action, Roguelite, Shmup, Bullet Hell Some things will always remain as constants in the video game culture sphere. Nintendo will always be marching to the beat of their own drum, Ed Boon will always champion Mortal Kombat be it games or live-action adaptations, and Finnish gamemakers Housemarque will always make pretty bullet-hell coloured shmups be it in a locked 2D perspective (Nex Machina, Resogun) or 3D space (Returnal). They always make good shooter titles with spot-on controls, and their latest exclusive offering Saros, with roguelite mechanics and level structure similar to Returnal, is on that same track. Unfortunately, they are saddled with PlayStation, a constant presence in the games industry that currently isn’t sure about its path. Making so many mistakes with live-service games years back, they have this one new 2026 single-player roguelite shooter to fall back on, to get you to support the jacked-up-in-price PS5 and PS5 Pro. Is this a title that is going to convince you to jump on board? Of course not; that ship has passed. But as a new Housemarque title? It could be better. Black Hole Sun In Saros, you play as main character Arjun, an explorer for space corp Soltari whose team is out finding previous expedition groups on a planet called Carcosa. This being an action title, the area is knee-deep in alien ruins and lots of space aliens to fight and kill. To keep things spicy narrative-wise, the planet goes through an eclipse that tunrs everyone pretty hostile and paranoid against one another, most notably Arjun. Whether you question if your actual roguelite runs are real or in your head is the game’s crux of the plot, making you guess things left and right. There’s a ton of purposely-made ambiguity that won’t be solved unless you keep playing the game over and over, and as a result the plot does feel disjointed. Having said that, the man who plays Arjun, Rahul Kohli, does a great job selling his performance though it feels like he’s doing a LOT of the heavy lifting with the vague and shallow plot. The narrative does tie up better at the tail end, but your patience for abstract storytelling may wear thin if you aren’t a fan of [Conteúdo truncado para controle de custo.]