Yars Rising is equal parts Metroidvania and love letter to 51 years of Atari history, and a boss fight against a supervillain named Missile Commander sold me
Summer Preview | Yars Rising follows up to one of the weirdest Atari games ever made, but it plays like a perfect modern Metroidvania
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(Image credit: Atari/WayForward)
I understood exactly what Yars Rising was the instant I saw that the save points were authentic recreations of the sleek, yellow curves of the 1971 arcade game, Computer Space. This is an anime-influenced Metroidvania from WayForward, the studio behind the likes of the …
