Retro games Crossing Souls review – fun Stranger Things-style nostalgia for the 80s 3 / 5 stars Fourattic/Devolver Digital; PlayStation 4, PC, PlayStation VitaThere is nothing original about this Kickstarter-funded game with a plucky Goonies-style gang of 2D characters – but that is the point ‘The elation transported me back to my childhood self’ … Crossing Souls on PC. Photograph: Fourattic/Devolver DigitalWhen Crossing Souls’ protagonist wakes up in his pixelated bedroom, it’s not exactly difficult to divine which decade we’re in. Crossing Souls’ chief ambition is to evoke nostalgia, and that goal it is evident in everything it does. Crossing Souls’ dimension-splitting story even lifts references from Stranger Things, a current TV show created to scratch a similarly nostalgic itch. The first big project from a team of Spanish developers working out of an attic in Seville, Crossing Souls is a passionately made ode to an era, even if it occasionally feels underwhelming.

Source: The Guardian February 13, 2018 13:52 UTC