Blast Course is a puzzle platformer that may require you to fastidiously bounce your self round with highly-explosive photographs.
In case you are accustomed to the sport Group Fortress 2, you probably bear in mind folks utilizing the bigger gun-based weapons, firing them on the floor, permitting them to leap up increased. Blast Course takes this very enjoyable idea and brings it to a brand new, nearly Portal 2-feeling sport.
Blast Course is a first-person puzzle-platformer that takes you thru a bunch of take a look at chambers, testing out these new blast weapons from The Fascinating Firm. A voice from above offers you bits of data and generally encourages you (though I felt rather a lot just like the encouragements had been extra like taunts).
The sport does really feel extra puzzle than platformer with you needing to make use of your blasting gun to leap over gaps, climb on partitions, and hit targets. You additionally want to maneuver blocks round and generally shoot blocks to get them as much as new heights. There are additionally totally different weapons that you may unlock in Blast Course that work barely in another way for fixing puzzles. One gun launches grenades that you may then get to blow up on the similar time. Good for triggering buttons!
Blast Course feels nostalgic, however on the similar time refreshing and new. There’s something so enjoyable about launching your self round with explosives – one thing that feels so satisfying with every motion – which actually attracts folks in. I fairly just like the comedian e-book fashion of the sport too, which lends nicely to this kind of sport. The puzzles really feel intelligent and take a look at your mind-set whereas not being too difficult to make you’re feeling hopeless.
I bought the possibility to play Blast Course at BIG Convention the place the builders spoke of their future with the sport and the way completely satisfied they had been to create this whereas attending college collectively. It’s a really spectacular pupil challenge!
Blast Course is accessible now (free of charge) on Steam.