{"id":23275,"date":"2022-06-27T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/finding-shortcuts-in-goty-contender-neon-white-feels-great\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:43:37","slug":"finding-shortcuts-in-goty-contender-neon-white-feels-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=23275","title":{"rendered":"Finding Shortcuts In GOTY Contender Neon White Feels Great"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A few days ago, I was playing Neon White<\/em><\/span>, which is what I mostly do these days when I\u2019m not doomscrolling Twitter<\/span>. I had set a fast but not perfect time on a level and was replaying to beat someone on my friend-filled leaderboard. Nothing was working. Then, on run 503 or so, I spotted an angle that would let me shoot a far-off enemy with a gun long before I encountered them, which would let me skip a whole section of the short map, saving me at least four or five seconds. <\/p>\n

Finding that skip, pulling it off and then nailing a fast time felt amazing, and newly released indie FPS Neon White <\/em>is filled with these kinds of moments, quickly turning it into one of my favorite games of 2022<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Neon White<\/em> is a game about dead sinners, called Neons, who are invited to heaven for a short time to kill demons as part of a larger competition. The winner gets to stay for a year before it all happens again. You play as <\/em>Neon White, a sinner who has forgotten his past and is trying to figure out who he is, who his fellow neons are, and how all this stuff works. It\u2019s all very anime-inspired and it even features dating sim mechanics too<\/span>. But I\u2019m not here to talk about that stuff. I want to focus on the real reason to play Neon White<\/em>: the ludicrously fast, stylish, and slick, first-person combat and platforming.<\/p>\n

You use angelic powers that operate a lot like guns and kill demons in short levels built around mastering them and nailing a fast time. And you can easily, at least most of the time, get through these quick levels following the main path the game telegraphs to the player. Usually, this will be fast enough to let you progress through Neon White<\/em>\u2019s narrative. However, if you keep poking at these tracks and exploring them, you\u2019ll quickly discover shortcuts and skips, letting you slice more and more time off your best run. This is where Neon White<\/em> goes from a great game to, \u201cOh my god, I stayed up until 3 a.m. playing this game and have work tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n