Explore an open interconnected world filled with brutal alien lifeforms and malfunctioning machines. Find your way through abandoned facilities and perilous environments, on the surface and depths of this world.
Choose your own path. Explore a complex open world, discovering it in your own way. Traverse the distinct areas in a seamless manner, with no loading screens between them.
Combat an array of deadly adversaries: the local fauna, infected colonists, and abandoned machines that once worked in the facilities.
Designed for both Gamepad or mouse and keyboard controls. Run and jump around while shooting in any direction using a tight control system. You can have 2 weapons equipped at any one time, and use them as you need.
Acquire the gear that will make you more mobile and unlock new areas. Climb walls, dash, dive underwater, glide through the air, and evolve the way you interact with the world.
Upgrade your arsenal
Collect blueprints and craft new weapons and upgrades in order to fight more effectively.
Gameplay
The gameplay is straightforward. walk. jump, shoot, and aim. (This is a twin shooter). The gameplay is fluent and a great experience. The Mobius Effect is a 2D Metroidvania platformer. There’s a lot of exploring and discovering blueprints & other items to progress through the game. With a standard controller, you use the left stick to walk and the right to shoot. Ammo is unlimited. As you progress you collect items for upgrading weapons etc which enables you to progress further in the game. You also collect additional items to reveal more of the map to help you on your journey.
Graphics and Sound
Graphically the game is superb with lots of colour and smooth framerate. As you decrease in health a red glow appears around the edge of the screen adding to the atmosphere. Water is also quite good with a liquid look which adds to the charm of the graphics. I would say the industrial look suits and complements The Mobius Machine very well.
Game audio is always an important part of the game. This is no exception. Music is very atmospheric with crisp sound effects throughout adding to the experience. Shooting at objects depending on the colours makes a very satisfying splatter sound effect.
Accessibility
Not much here in the means of accessibility. No colour blind options or anything to that effect. Controls can be remapped in the controller options, well almost. Being a twin stick you can remap the aim from the right analogue to left same with shoot. For disability been able to map the direction pad to these functions would have been more ideal for certain disabilities.
Overall Thoughts
The Mobius Machine is one of those games that look good, plays good with nice sound effects but is limited in gameplay. Light puzzle solving is present but nothing to bring you back after a full playthrough.
AVAILABLE ON ALL PLATFORMS
GAMERHUB RATING: THREE (Out of FIVE) JOYSTICKS
(Thank you to Keymailer and the team at Madruga Works for providing the code for this review)
