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Hack n' slash shooter Bright Memory leaps out of early accessSlash, shoot, repeat.
Slash, shoot, repeat.
Breaking onto Steam last year,Bright Memorylooked impressive enough. A slick, sci-fi FPS that bridged a gap betweenShadow WarriorandDevil May Crywith some serious technical chops. Coupled with the fact that the game was seemingly the work of a sole developer, one-man studio FYQD, and you’ve got an impressive piece of work on your hands. After an overwhelming start on early access, FYQD is ready to call this version finished, moving towards a more fully-featured vision inBright Memory: Infinite.
It’s often disingenuous to say a game is the work of a sole developer. Even Bright Memory benefits from collaboration on audio, music, publishing support with Playism, and a tech base built out of Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4. But even so, FYQD had created something that could easily pass as a polished piece from a team of dozens.
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A few months later FYQD would announce that he’deffectively rebooted development. Bright Memory had done numbers, numbers that convinced the dev to push for one large, scaled-up new edition calledBright Memory: Infiniterather than pursuing a planned episodic trilogy.
At the time, FYQD claimed he’d stopped all development on Episode 1 (which has since dropped the episodic moniker). But it seems he couldn’t keep himself from tinkering away, recently adding RTX ray-tracing support once planned for the fully-featured follow-up. Truth be told, the line between the two games is often hard to draw, as the dev started using it as a test-bed for features planned in Infinite.
But 1.0 marks a complete development shift. From here on out, it’s Infinite all the way forward. At least anyone who buys Bright Memory before Infinite releases will get the latter for free when it finally drops. This week’s launch comes with its own changelist, adding Nvidia Ansel support and (perhaps concerningly) fixing “the position of Sheila’s chest”. These changes, along with a collection of screens for Bright Memory: Infinite, can be found over on the1.0 announcement post.
Bright Memory is currently 33% off onSteam, at £3.47/€3.81/$4.68
