So I'm playing Ultros, and I was kind of confused why I hadn't heard much about it. When the screenshots got released for this last year everyone was going on and on about how bizarre and colorful and trippy the art style of the game was. And it is undeniable that nothing has ever looked like this game before. It is very cool in that aspect. But as I play it, I kind of get why no one else really got that into it... it's a lot of bad ideas and one small game.

Basically someone got the idea of making a metroidvania game, but also adding a roguelike feature to it. When you hit certain achievements, you start over and lose all of your abilities that you've gained. Then with a minimal story that starts off with the main character who doesn't talk and doesn't know what they're doing. You just wander around and let the story expand. And even as the story unravels, it doesn't exactly clear stuff up. There's something about a Time loop. One character seems to be aware of it, and the two others that you meet are not.

Long story short, this is kind of like Metroid, but you didn't get the instruction manual to tell you what the story is, and every time you finish a boss fight you lose all your equipment and have to go gather it again before going to the next area.