VVVVVV and Super Hexagon's Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully cracked platformer about eggs

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Once upon a time, the large graven cave troll Terry Cavanagh roseate from his slumbers, scratched the opals from his beard of woven copper, and said to himself: "Today I volition marque a 3D ovum level crippled successful which a 3D ovum goes platforming, similar my deed crippled VVVVVV, but 3D and with eggs." And due to the fact that determination was no-one astir to accidental "WTF, Terry" oregon "perhaps you are conscionable hungry" oregon "Mr Cavanagh, the egg's paucity of outer appendages and senses wholly disallow it arsenic a means of self-directed locomotion", that is precisely what helium did.

We are each the richer for it, due to the fact that Egg (subtitle "why not beryllium an egg") is eggcellent. It's besides escaped and playable close present successful a browser connected Itch.io.

Where Cavanagh's aboriginal influences see Final Fantasy 7, successful which there's a section that has you defending a elephantine condor ovum against Shinra, I hap to beryllium a postgraduate of Sonic the Hedgehog University, which teaches that eggs are the enactment of Satanic industrialists. As such, I was profoundly suspicious of the ovum platformer concept, but determination is ample precedent: the Dizzy bid (in which the ovum has hands and feet), the shellshocked and yolk-crazed Billy the Hatcher, and the caller physics-me-do Egging On. Sometimes erstwhile Sonic curls into a ball, I deliberation that helium looks alternatively similar an egg. But past I adjacent my eyes and bang my temples until the demons spell away.

Cavanagh's Egg is some acquainted of operation and tonally eggcentric. It puts you successful complaint of a supermarket container of six eggs, perched connected a cliffside. Your occupation - I think, based connected astir 30 minutes with the crippled - is to power and usher the eggs 1 by 1 to a nest, determination successful the landscape. It's imaginable there's a motivation present astir concern poultry farming, but I don't privation to bust retired the Carol Adams conscionable yet. I've succeggsfully guided conscionable 1 ovum to a "nest" truthful far. It slumbers present successful a clump of frogspawn connected a sandbank, heavy underwater.

The satellite is simply a stark, pixellated, precarious and arbitrary yet someway consoling expanse of ledges and moving platforms and tunnels and whirling machinery, divided into discreet biomes that are linked by warp pipes. You determination with WASD, look with the mouse, and leap with space, holding down the barroom to complaint up higher jumps.

It's a small fiddly, with tons of deadly drops, but not that punishing: checkpoints are plentiful, and you person infinite lives. Also, erstwhile you descent down a slope to a messy doom your ovum makes a charmingly wibbly ooh-er noise. I deliberation the eggs are each voiced by Cavanagh himself. Pretty definite Hideo Kojima has ne'er voiced an egg.

Who tin explicate the scrambled imaginings of the large graven cave troll Terry Cavanagh? It's imaginable this blog station mightiness shed immoderate light. Do a artillery hen mill sim next, Terry.