Jason Schreier

I don't know, hologrammed up, whatever you want to call it.

It was skinned to be like the moon and there was a full moon above it and it was crazy to look at.

Anyway.

That makes sense.

Okay.

The Saros is actually a casino in Las Vegas.

No, I'm just kidding.

None of that's in there.

Arjun goes through a door and comes in on the floor of a casino and there's just like a bunch of people at the slots anyway so okay so you get the shield and it surrounds you and it's blue and if you use it for too much time it will

It'll stop working, but it blocks all attacks from hitting you.

And then to keep it recharged, you can absorb blue orbs into it, which will keep it recharged and will also recharge your special ability that makes a weapon do an extra powerful attack.

Um, so you are incentivized to, uh, be absorbing bullets so that you can use extra powerful attacks, especially on bosses where there is a rhythm to it of collecting these blue orbs and then spewing, spewing your attacks back out at the enemies.

But then there are also orange orbs, which you don't want to absorb because those will, uh, deteriorate your health and basically just temporarily lower your max health by

so that you can't even restore past a certain amount, kind of like chipping away at your health meter.

So yeah, it's a cool system.

It makes you rethink just the kind of typical dodging bullets routine or rhythm that you would in...

Returnal or another kind of more traditional bullet hell game.

And yeah, I really enjoyed it.

Once I got the hang of that first boss, I believe it's called Prophet, I got really into it and was just kind of like feeling the zen of just...

dodge, dodge, absorb, shoot, dodge, dodge, absorb, shoot.