Chorus Analysis – Nara’s Space Redemption

Fishlabs and Deep Silver sign with Chorus an excellent example that the shoot’em up genre still has a lot to offer

The Matamarians, or more technically known as the genus kill them, have become an almost marginal stratum in the world of video games. What was once the king of arcades, today has the annual deliveries it receives on the fingers of one hand, and not all of the quality expected.

In addition, if we are already watching titles of this type in 3D, it is even more difficult for us to find quality exhibitors. Despite everything, and the recent Space Assault Redoubt the Star Wars Squadrons revealed that there is still hope for those who love space combat.

Lucky for them, Fish laboratories Yes Deep silver They decided to change this trend and please fans of the genre with a launch kill them up to it, very successful in many of its sections. Not all was going to be the resurrection of the Defeat them!

Chorus it’s a formidable Double A, a blow to the nostalgia of those of us who have spent many afternoons playing Martian machines. In the same package covers several costumes with great success, transforming the experience into something more holistic than just “Eyes eyes”. Fish laboratories brings together the experience acquired in Manticore, another special fighting game developed by them, serving up good ideas with an interesting narrative to catch the player.

We are therefore faced with a certain evolution of the kill them who is feeds on playable mechanics from other genres to give it personality and charisma to the product. Join me on this journey through the galaxy in analytical form to learn about the dark past and promising present of Nara Yes Abandoned to discover this collection of playful spatial mechanics.

A bordo of the Forsaken

Chorus offers a sci-fi adventure in space, where we will begin a journey of redemption amidst the conflicts of a warring galaxy. Its neat narrative is one of the first attention-grabbing aspects in the game. We won’t go into much detail about it here, as it’s worth the player to find out for themselves, but we are planning on doing that. already that it is interesting and well told, in spite of ups and downs in its rhythm.

This is not the usual note in this type of game, where you usually look for a story that serves as a link and justification to shoot us and move into combat action in combat. In Chorus There are multiple lines of dialogue, and various characters, and all have something to say in the adventure of Nara, with its nuances between good and evil.

The chorus

Nara and abandoned are the absolute protagonists of Chorus, a very particular tandem which complements each other wonderfully, whose destinies are linked. Abandoned It was the star hunter of Nara when she served in the “Secta”, known as the circle, a cult of fanatics in the service of a leader, the Great Prophet and his ideas embodied through the Choral and the rites. He is choral, in the broad sense, it is materialized by a state of “harmony” for the galaxy imposed on all under the yoke of this sect and its leader.

Nara, as an execution arm driven by the Circle, is responsible for submitting those who refuse to accept his ideas. But he begins to question the morality of his works, and after a mission in which they destroy an entire planet, he decides to desert, hide his ship and disappear from the focus of his bosses. This will lead you to the opposite side, the resistance, and to defend the interests of those who refuse to submit to the management of other invading forces. After doing some freelance work, almost like a galactic mercenary, she will again cross her path with the Choral, so you will need the help of your abandoned friend, Abandoned.

From there, it will be your turn to discover the relationship between pilot and ship.. A tormented character locked in his past, and a machine of relentless artificial intelligence and with great contempt for the lives of enemy pilots. In short, a path of revelation and redemption loaded with pirouettes, gunfire and explosions, and of course, space pirates.

High-end gameplay

It is surprising how gracious who is controlling our ship. Total control, with well-honed gameplay, which allows us perform all kinds of stunts and tricks with our ship to face the enemies until we can stop it dead and concentrate the action. But even we can subtly pass through small entrances keep your movement stable in a way extremely agile and without fear of losing control and leaving the mirror in any column.

But, beyond the formidable maneuverability of our ship, Chorus It has various mechanisms to make our walk through the galaxy more enjoyable. As if it were an RPG, we will accumulate experience and we can take it to the next level different elements of our ship, or even the strange powers of Nara. Not to mention a detailed menu with its codex of events, map and other progress elements.

Nara has a special abilities called rites. These, for example, allow you to mentally scan the environment around you and thus find locations, credit containers to purchase upgrades, tickets to lost areas or “souvenirs”. With the credits mentioned, we can, by accessing the hangar from the different locations, upgrade our ship and add new weapons and pledges, as good as headset upgrades. In addition, our protagonist will develop other powers, such as the deactivation of our enemy’s protective shield or even teleportation, but for that we must improve our experience, meet various challenges and enter side missions. These skills consume energy, but do not suffer, they can be recharged in a short time.

The souvenirs, mentioned above, will be present in some missions and will allow us to travel in fragments of the past to learn more about the events concerning our protagonist. Also, they will be useful to advance in certain missions revealing secrets and places.

Stellar maneuvers

In addition to the abilities of Nara related to his perception, we must emphasize the pilot skills that are presupposed and those that must be honored. On the screen, and methods in the matter, we have the possibility of switch between our weapons using the pad. In addition, we can increase the speed from our ship to travel long distances, but also in combat.

Using this speed in combat, we can do a kind of drift using KG at the right time, to turn around and even tack and face our enemies. We will perform all these maneuvers at the same time as we turn on ourselves with the Left stick and dodging attacks, in a dance of fire prizes and gunshots.

All these maneuvers will help us to fight with different enemies that we are going to face. There will be small fighters like ours, even bosses with bigger ships or bosses with real destroyers. His difficulty will vary considerably between them, with some major imbalances it will give us a strange headache. In addition, of all we will come across structures such as defense turrets or the particular “Tótems Psionicos”.

Technically resistant to asteroids

Planetary charts

One of the first things that jumps out at you Chorus is its graphics section. Results spectacular to move around in his universe, and performance in Xbox One X, where it was analyzed, it is frankly very good. We can choose between a performance mode at 60fps and 1080 and another from quality, at 4K and 60fps, being available in X series has 4K y 60fps. Everything moves with rocky stability and no errors.

No bug or technical problem, beyond a shadow or a texture that has sometimes charged me a little raruna, or elements that when we get closer we can see something more diffuse. His lighting will leave us in consonance with the rest of the artistic section, postcards for memory.

His universe is transformed into different environments and places, with six large spaces, varied and colorful, in their possible context. There are detailed areas leading to spectacular moments when the fight begins, with gunshots and explosions and a section of his behind. A visual frenzy worthy of a space hunter adventure. Yes, we will have the opportunity that its cartography could have been better exploited. At least, that if, it has a lot of detail to avoid the feeling of empty areas.

It is more spectacular in movement than in its cutscenes. Contrary to the result of the gameplay, these seemed a little looser to me and less spectacular. They look good, but not much else, and our protagonist’s expressions are nothing to write home about, however, they fill out well without being one of the most important sections of Chorus.

Galactic sound

And since we mentioned it, all about the ring it’s a very intrigue worked and cared for. The melodies accompany the action very well, with epic moments, and the the sound effects are spectacular and help with immersion. To this must be added a dubbing category, very well played and carried away in the adventure. Special mention the emphasis on interpretation of Nara Yes Abandoned.

the voices are in English with Spanish subtitles. Sometimes between combat and the turns and movements to avoid enemies, it will be difficult to keep up with the thread of the conversation. This recalls, for example, what is happening in RGT when we try to drive and read the captions.

As a result, once again influence the merits of the proposal once all that cast of elements is brought together on screen. Without a doubt, maneuvering under enemy fire, while trying to take down other fighters in their mapping, to the rhythm of gunfire and explosions, is quite a visual spectacle. And everything reaches its Climax with its remarkable sound section.

conclusion

Chorus It is a magnificent proposal in the genre Evolved from The shooters classic space. Spectacular and frenetic when needed, it has a good variety of playable mechanics to make the adventure dynamic and entertaining, to which must be added an interesting and well-narrated plot. With an acceptable duration, perhaps its poor replayability becomes a drawback for some players, however the hours spent at its controls will be so intense and fun that it will be worth giving it a try. All this, flowing with ease and leaving cachets to remember that will delight the most intrepid pilots linked to good science fiction adventures.