Four moods, four movesets: Monowave turns feelings into platforming tools
Plithus turns anger, sorrow, anxiety and happiness into jump, dive, wall-climb and dodge in a hand-drawn platformer that is out now on Steam.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The five little faces in the top left corner of every Monowave screenshot are doing something I want to understand properly: in one shot four are bright and one has gone dark, in another it is two lit against three dim. That is the only visible sign of a meter that can apparently be spent or lost, and the screenshots alone will not tell me what triggers it or what happens when it hits zero. It sits above a stage number and a banner name like a health bar that has been redrawn as a mood ring, and that framing is the cleverest thing on show before you even get to the platforming. Monowave, ou...