Xeodrifter is a lot of fun while it lasts. It’s a small game in both actual size and scope, and that’s okay. There’s a much larger, more ambitious metroidvania title available for PS4 gamers called Axiom Verge, which, in an effort to modernize, pay homage to and perhaps match Super Metroid, does all but the latter; and yet Xeodrifter, despite – or perhaps because of – its no-frills, pared down gameplay, might actually be more fun to play.
Xeodrifter gives us just four planets we can travel between in seconds, aboard our spaceship on the world map. This decision already tells us a great deal about how the game is going to go about its business; instead of a massive, sprawling layout of interconnected hallways, we are presented with a handful of separate, instantly accessible locales, and so the wonder of exploration is greatly reduced, but so too is the need for excessive backtracking – all supplanted by a ten-second jaunt in a spaceship. This is Xeodrifter trimming the fat.
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