‘Split Fiction’ is the most fun I have had with a video game in years

Fiction It is a game that explodes with endless creativity and entertainment that is at the same time technically impressive and startling awake at every step. As the title says, Hazelight’s newest adventure of Co-op is the most fun I have had games over the years. It takes a lot to surprise and please me when it comes to video games these days but Fiction He made both in the shovel.

The premise of the game is quite straightforward. Two hopeful writers, Zoe (Elsie Bennett) and Mio (Kaja Chan) appear on Rader Publishing, eager to publish their stories. Zoe writes Fantasy Fiction and Mio writes scientific fiction, but none has succeeded in the world of publication.

When they arrive, not everything is as it seems. Writers, along with some others, are told to wear special costumes. They will enter the simulations of their stories on a device called Simply, The Machine. When Mio protests, after noticing others caught in large, glowing bubbles, the founder and CEO of the company, JD Rader, try to force him to participate, knocking it by Zoe’s bubble.

It appears within the simulation of Zoe’s fantasy. This is not what the company aimed at, and now Zoe and Mio find themselves staring back and on each other’s stories while learning about the bad plans Rader has about their ideas, which they plan to steal.

The game is created to be played cooperatively, whether online or on the site, through the separate screen (though occasionally plays on a single screen). You can’t play the game alone. Sometimes the forced co-op bothers me, but here it is essential to experience, just like the two previous Hazelight games, A way out AND It takes two.

Fiction Takes everything the studio has learned from those games and expanded to it in the most creative and frankly imaginable way. This game is simply exploding with creativity and fun at every step. No two phases is the same. A phase leads you to a futuristic train heist of high stocks, descending through the air in space -age squirrel costumes before spraying in the water in the internet waters. Boss you fight at this level plays like an old arcade game that moves laterally, returning back to classics like kind. This perspective shift occurs throughout, moving from 3D over-boats to 2D Sidecroller in racing game to dance at any moment.

At one level, you find yourself confusing your way through a fantasy forest like Shapeshashifters, solving enigma as a fairy/monkey duet. And the puzzles are all inventors and unique. In one, we had to lay a giant egg in a giant syssava, then use the magical powers of Zoe tree to attract a large branch. One player had to be thrown into the strips, throwing the egg into the air while the other released the register, making it hit the middle of the egg, sending it to the Brammar gate. Puzzle after the puzzle seeks smart thinking and, most importantly, cooperative efforts to solve.

Then you are turning on faster bicycles, competing through an online city at night, firing flying safety vehicles. In a short and quite silly stage, both players find themselves turned into pigs.

The main levels are separated by side stories that provide smaller missions in the opposite genre. So a phase that is the fantasy will have scientific side history and a vice versa, keeping the game in a stable state of flow. You never get bored, though I guarantee that some of the harshest challenges will leave you frustrated. However, time and patience and judgment and error will spend even more complex pieces, and a useful mini-game in certain areas ensures that as long as the other player is alive, you can withdraw and continue in the war.

There are also limited fighting here, though it is less a game of action than an adventure-platformer-Pozzler. I will not ruin the story beyond what I have already said, but it is very written and the characters grow on you as the game progresses.

Another point of sale for Fiction is the value of reproduction. Zoe and Mio each take completely different roles with different parts to play in each puzzle and scene and are often given completely different powers, so a second play character promises a new entertainment experience for both players. Of course, it will be the same story again, but your role in it from a game perspective will change completely. Really really quite great.

If you are looking for a new game to play with a friend, another important or family member (I played this with my 17-year-old daughter who fell in love with her) definitely Fiction for a spin. You will not regret it.

Split fiction is now in PS5, Xbox Series X and PC.