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Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
In this sequel to Anodyne, traverse a moody, 3D world and surreal 2D spaces, with PSX and 16-bit-influenced art styles. Play as Nova, the Nano Cleaner, and collect dangerous Nano Dust for the mysterious entity, "The Center".
Details
- Released
- August 11, 2019
- Developer
- Analgesic Productions, Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka
- Genres
- Action · Platform · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Ratalaika Games
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Anodyne 2: Return to Dust Reviews
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Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is a work of art you absolutely must play. It’s heartfelt and personal, with tons of fun puzzles to solve and locations to explore.
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is an unusually captivating experience. The way the developers mix and match various gaming tropes shouldn’t work, and yet the absurd narrative and overall aesthetic binds perfectly. If you’re looking for something completely different, make sure you check out Anodyne 2.
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust has been on my radar for a while now. I played the original Anodyne when it released on PS4 last year. I was drawn to its retro 16-bit design and old school Zelda feel. In fact, the whole of Anodyne could best be described as a love letter to The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Seeing as how that’s one of my all-time favorite games, you can understand my instant curiosity with regards to a game that emulates it so clearly. While I was pleasantly surprised with...
My first few hours with Anodyne 2: Return to Dust had me ready to write it off as middling. I could see the hook, and, overall, I thought it was fine. The writing and music were great. Each story-important character came with a vignette that taught me things about them that I was excited to learn. However, the act of exploring was really tedious. The 3D spaces are all empty. The 2D dungeons were hit-and-miss; some dungeons were incredible, but others were boring. Around the three-hour mark, the game had a dramatic shift in what you were doing. I thought here was where the game would leave all…
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is an action-adventure game developed by Analgesic Productions and published by Ratalaika Games. You play as Nova, a Nano Cleaner, cle
Uncompromising to a fault, Anodyne 2’s sublime polygonal world and oblique writing will pull the player in, only to mire them in a slow-to-navigate open world bits and willfully opaque environmental puzzles. Feels almost too academic to fully enjoy.