How do you comply with up a beloved one-off – retaining what made it particular, however increasing its world and concepts meaningfully? Colour Grey has managed a really deft stability right here – that is successfully the sport you understand, however a setting you actually, actually don’t. Removed from persevering with the place we left off, Rise picks up entire centuries after the occasions of the primary sport, on this world’s equal of the Nineteen Seventies. For followers of Case, it implies that, even when you’ve got all of the backstory, you’re simply as misplaced within the context of this world, providing you with the fun of placing all of the items again collectively as soon as once more.
It is a world the place the very actual Idol of the primary sport has not solely change into a fantasy, however been bodily damaged into items – and we uncover what occurs when folks start placing them again collectively once more. To provide away any extra would spoil the surprises, but it surely’s protected to say that whereas it offers in related themes to the primary sport, it is a very totally different story.
On first look, you would possibly assume that it is a very related sport, nonetheless. The essential formulation stays – every stage provides you a have a look at a really particular (nearly all the time violent) second in time, and presents the choice to click on on the folks and objects in that second, choosing up clues.