Wil Bain
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Nobody was expecting Sloclap, a studio made famous by their martial-arts focused action games, to release a competitive multiplayer football game. The pivot from Sifu initially seems crazy, but I can understand why Sloclap felt they were up to the challenge. The studio has experimented with multiplayer before with Absolver and has created hundreds of athletic body animations. Still, Rematch is a very ambitious title, and thankfully, one that sticks the landing.
As I ventured through Bionic Bay, I kept feeling this warm sense of nostalgia, like returning to an older era of indie gaming. Several factors contribute to this. The developer’s previous work, Badland, was a source of endless competitive joy for my friends and me when it was first released. I can see a lot of Badland’s art style and gameplay in Bionic Bay, as well as the DNA of several iconic platformers. Mureena founder Juhana Myllys attributes several genre-defining titles as inspirat...