VHOLUME

good

There is something to the feeling of hands on smooth concrete, whether gliding across or coming down on it violently, accepted or rejected by its impossible cold, an architect’s caress or the brutality of nature in a simple cubic structure. Vholume understands this, and gives you a rush of control as you come crashing down against beton, rhythmically glancing across it like a rock on the surface of water, defying its gravity and dancing with it upwards and forwards. Impossible architecture hurtling past you, trypophobic windows and electric lights now and again piercing the void of fog and stone. Vholume’s avatar of speed exclaims only in breaths, but conveys an urgency, melancholy, and fear in their movements that grants a fitting physicality to the contact made with every surface. Matched with the somber music, a pleasant surprise coming off Straftat’s hyper drum-and-bass, the space becomes hollow in a way entirely conducive to its traversal. I skipped over something in my frantic flight – jumped the wrong wall and ended up on a blurry surface overlooking the void, a giant freeway bridging the skyline in the distance and disappearing into darkness. This is the intended landscape, a pocket where the residents of Vholume find peace, where I escape for just a moment, uncertain if I'm truly away or if I just can't be seen here. I huddle into the cold concrete for this reason, it feels protective as much as oppressive.

only good thing to come out of france

nice game good vibes.

it's cool https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3794179590

great maps that show off brutalist and dystopian setpieces, on top of snappy movement remeniscent of tf2

Yet another brilliant experience from these devs!