Sexy both on AND offline
No More Robotshas announcedthat the FPS spin-off ofHypnospace Outlawhas a release date.Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayeris dropping on June 1st.
Hypnospace Outlawwas an extremely special game. While it took place in a fantasy reality, it created a loving time capsule of Web 1.0. The developers created various fictional characters to present a very accurate depiction of the internet in its awkward adolescence. It was rather spot on, and I know this because I lived Web 1.0.
One of the characters was this edgy teenager called Zane Lofton. Like many teenagers, Zane lived in a self-centered fantasy land where he was the king of cool.Slayers Xis a further exploration of that character, this time through an FPS that he and his friend developed. It looks to drag us by the hair right back to 1998 when teenagers tinkered withDoomandDuke Nukem 3Dmodding tools.
I also did that, but I wasn’t a teenager yet, so nothing ever came of it aside from a few poorly textured rooms.
Zane Rocks
We’ve had plenty of shooters attempt to recapture the ‘90s to varying degrees of success, butSlayers Xmight be the first one to try to present itself through the lens of a character living at the time. As such, it’s packed with everything edgy teenagers found cool back then: bad guys, real-world environments, and poop. It’s trite and tacky, and that’s exactly how it should be.
As a fan ofeverything jank-pop,Slayers Xabsolutely sings to me.Hypnospace Outlawstill lives in a corner of my brain, and I’ve been excited to see more from the concept. The spin-off was announced a while back, and I was recently wondering if I had somehow missed it. I’m glad that’s not the case, and I can resume being excited.
Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayerreleases on PC June 1. It will also be on Xbox Game Pass the same day.
