I had been anticipating MOTORSLICE for quite a while, which meant I was pretty stoked upon receiving a review copy. Even though I found the gameplay loop to be just okay, it’s the world that drew me in and kept me totally hooked.
MOTORSLICE is an action-adventure game utilizing hack-and-slash and parkour elements, the second game of the indie team Regular Studio. The team directly attributes inspiration from parkour games like Prince of Persia and Mirror’s Edge, though I got some vibes from the Portal series as I played through this roughly ten-hour story.
You follow P, a Slicer, as a drone she finds named Orbie. While you directly control P, the camera movements are all explained away as Orbie hovering around P and observing her. Ahh- I always love games that integrate normal gameplay features as in-lore features. P is tasked by some mysterious organization of other Slicers to infiltrate “the Megastructure” and destroy every machine inside.
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