Axiom Verge 2 - Trailer

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Published on September 11, 2022 4:14:42 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKQdIOsqfbM

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Axiom Verge 2 (2021)

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Trailer Index
00:00 - Breach Gameplay Trailer
01:45 - Teaser Trailer
02:31 - Launch Trailer
03:19 - Development Narration Trailer
06:57 - Developer Presentation Trailer

Axiom Verge 2 is a Metroidvania video game by American indie developer Thomas Happ Games. It is the sequel to Axiom Verge and was released on August 11, 2021, for Windows (exclusive to the Epic Games Store client), Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4. The game was later released on Steam and PlayStation 5 in August 2022.

The game follows Indra Chaudhari, a billionaire who receives a mysterious message telling her to go to Antarctica if she wishes to see her missing daughter again. It received generally favorable reviews from critics.

Gameplay
Just like its predecessor, Axiom Verge 2 is a side-scroller action-adventure game. The player controls Indra Chaudhari, a mysterious billionaire. The gameplay borrows elements from games from the 1980s and 1990s such as Metroid, Contra, Blaster Master, and Bionic Commando, among others. The game focuses on action and exploration, and features many items, enemies, and power-ups. Most of Indra's power-ups come in the form of "Arms", entities with various powers.
Indra battles enemies either with weapons such as axes and boomerangs or by hacking them to alter their behaviors. Her attributes such as health and attack power can be upgraded freely using Apocalypse Flasks scattered around the map. Unusually for a Metroidvania, most bosses are optional and can be bypassed with no consequence to progression.

Most of Axiom Verge 2 is set in the world of Kiengir, which is split into two parallel dimensions known as the "Overworld" and "Breach" respectively. The Overworld is larger and appears largely natural and akin to Earth, while the Breach appears more digital and can only be accessed by Indra in the form of an artificial drone. Indra is frequently required to move through the Breach to progress to its equivalent locations in the Overworld, and vice versa.

Plot
In 2053, Indra Chaudhari, founder and CEO of the Globe 3 megacorporation, purchases Hammond Corp after its owner Elizabeth Hammond vanishes while carrying out research in Jones Station, Antarctica. The acquisition includes Hammond's original prototype for ansibles capable of zero-latency communication. Upon powering up the prototype, Indra receives a message from an unknown source telling her to come to Antarctica if she wishes to see her missing daughter again.

Indra explores Jones Station and is teleported via a cargo lift to a reality she does not recognize. She drowns in rising water, but finds herself reconstructed at a mysterious altar by an entity that introduces herself as Amashilama. Amashilama is an "Arm" – "an intelligent collection of machines" – that has bonded with Indra's body.

Indra finds the base camps of Hammond's research team. The researchers explain that they were studying this world – Kiengir – with Hammond until robots appeared and attacked the researchers, killing most of them and leaving the survivors isolated from each other. Furthermore, the cargo lift was destroyed so that it could no longer be used to leave Kiengir, and a group of Kazakh scientists from nearby Sagimbayev Station were never heard from again.

Development
The development of Axiom Verge 2 began less than a year after the release of its predecessor. During the development of its predecessor, Happ created ideas for seven different games and chose the one that seemed the most interesting to him, "I would never have time to do but Axiom Verge 2's story seemed like the most interesting one to continue with if I did get the chance to make it". Enemies were designed to be less "spongy" and have more ways for the player to approach them.
The game incorporates elements of Sumerian culture due to it being the first written language. The visuals were tweaked to be brighter and focus more on outdoor locales due to Happ becoming bored with the repetition of making the same type of art. The sequel was inspired by titles like Prey, The Legend of Zelda, Horizon Zero Dawn and Shadow of the Colossus.

Reception
The game received "generally favorable" reviews on Metacritic. Tom Sykes of PC Gamer praised the title, calling it a "bold and ambitious sequel" that builds on the work of its predecessor. Eric Van Allen of Destructoid gave it a positive review, saying that it "feels different and very much its own".
Mitch Vogel of Nintendo Life called the Nintendo Switch version "an impressively high-quality experience from stern to stern". Tristan Ogilvie of IGN enjoyed the world of the game, "Axiom Verge 2 is a dual-dimensional Metroidvania that’s engaging to explore despite its one-dimensional combat and underwhelming boss fights."