Laika: Aged Through Blood is a bike-based Metroidvania bolstered by BMX gunplay and an affecting story about motherhood amidst the end times.
Over the last decade, there’s been no shortage of videogames about sad dads. From Joel and Ellie’s trek through a cordyceps-infested America to an angry Greek god’s quest, many “prestige narratives” that have dominated recent games discourse have focused on bonds between fathers and sons.
And while its mechanics do a commendable job fulfilling classic videogame power fantasy, its narrative ensures that its grindhouse mayhem is more than just self-indulgent spectacle. Even as it begins with an inciting incident defined by grotesqueness as someone is “crucified by their own guts,” there are shades of empathy underneath all the bloodletting.
A similar degree of thoughtfulness extends to the other elements of its worldbuilding, such as the heavily militarized Birds. Unlike similar tales about anthropomorphized animals, the Birds aren’t depicted as inherently “evil” because of their species but due to more complex factors like rotten ideology. We get tidbits detailing the rise of imperialism in their society, meet pacifists who silently resist, and come across revolutionary Bird factions that seek to undermine the war machine.
Unfortunately, I encountered one huge hitch that proved an even greater threat than the Birds: an excruciating, game-breaking bug that made it impossible to progress the main story and forced me to ditch a 13-hour plus save file as I started over from scratch.
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