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rynlingFuri is a boss-fight-only game that’s like Hyper Light Drifter meets bullet hell. I’ve been playing it on and off in between other things when I have the PS4 hooked up. “Other things” used to be the FFVII Remake, but it’s mainly Elden Ring these days. Furi is super difficult... but it’s not as difficult as Elden Ring lmao.
I think the main draw of Furi is probably its synthwave OST, with My Only Chance being fairly representative. Every track is boss fight music, it’s great.
The story is absolutely banger.
Your player-character, The Stranger, is the villain. He’s a member of an alien force sent to do retcon work on a green planet, but he corrupts everything he touches, blighting the world and causing mutations. The green world sent warriors to stop him, which they succeeded in doing. He was placed at the top of a tower-like prison, and it’s your job, as The Stranger, to fight your way out. Along the way, you have to battle nine of the warriors who captured you but have since been imprisoned because being in contact with you drove them insane.
The Stranger is accompanied by the ghost? or holographic projection? of The Voice, the architect who built the tower. The Voice has been trapped in the prison as well, so he frees The Stranger and talks to him as he fights his way down. Along the way, you get the sense that he’s trying to appeal to The Stranger in order to convince him to spare the green world. The progression of boss fights contributes to this story in various ways as well.
Once The Stranger leaves the tower after what seems to be the endgame credits, you go out into some open-world Breath of the Wild realness, except everything in your immediate vicinity dies. You meet The Voice in person, but he leaves you and walks away, explaining that freeing you was "my only chance" to save everything. At this point The Stranger goes back up to the spaceship orbiting the planet. Your commanding officer, The Star, asks you how your retcon work went. If you tell him that the planet isn’t fit for assimilation, it’s revealed that The Stranger is one of an infinite number of identical clones, and that the planet they’re from is on the verge of annihilation. Still, you can choose to fight The Star and save the green world.
This is one of my favorite SFF themes ever – an AI or clone separating from a collective, gaining sentience, and becoming more “human.” It’s super cheesy, but it gets me every time.
The Modern AU Breath of the Wild novel I finished last year, Malice, was basically me diving head-first into the cheese. I was like, What if one of the Blight Ganons became sentient? What if it didn’t know it was a Blight Ganon, but its true nature emerged anyway? How long could it fake being human? After realizing that it wasn’t human, what decisions would it make about its original purpose? (And most importantly: Can it be romanced?)
I’m also a big fan of the “destroying a world vs. letting a world die” theme, which is what I’m playing with in The Demon King. Despite being severely depressed, Ananth is hellbent on destroying Ceres’s world to save his own, all the while knowing that he has to force himself to become magically toxic and corrupted in the process.
In other words, Furi has all the good shit I’m interested in. It’s also a lot of fun to play. It took me more than two years to git gud, but the payoff was definitely worth it.
I think the main draw of Furi is probably its synthwave OST, with My Only Chance being fairly representative. Every track is boss fight music, it’s great.
The story is absolutely banger.
Your player-character, The Stranger, is the villain. He’s a member of an alien force sent to do retcon work on a green planet, but he corrupts everything he touches, blighting the world and causing mutations. The green world sent warriors to stop him, which they succeeded in doing. He was placed at the top of a tower-like prison, and it’s your job, as The Stranger, to fight your way out. Along the way, you have to battle nine of the warriors who captured you but have since been imprisoned because being in contact with you drove them insane.
The Stranger is accompanied by the ghost? or holographic projection? of The Voice, the architect who built the tower. The Voice has been trapped in the prison as well, so he frees The Stranger and talks to him as he fights his way down. Along the way, you get the sense that he’s trying to appeal to The Stranger in order to convince him to spare the green world. The progression of boss fights contributes to this story in various ways as well.
Once The Stranger leaves the tower after what seems to be the endgame credits, you go out into some open-world Breath of the Wild realness, except everything in your immediate vicinity dies. You meet The Voice in person, but he leaves you and walks away, explaining that freeing you was "my only chance" to save everything. At this point The Stranger goes back up to the spaceship orbiting the planet. Your commanding officer, The Star, asks you how your retcon work went. If you tell him that the planet isn’t fit for assimilation, it’s revealed that The Stranger is one of an infinite number of identical clones, and that the planet they’re from is on the verge of annihilation. Still, you can choose to fight The Star and save the green world.
This is one of my favorite SFF themes ever – an AI or clone separating from a collective, gaining sentience, and becoming more “human.” It’s super cheesy, but it gets me every time.
The Modern AU Breath of the Wild novel I finished last year, Malice, was basically me diving head-first into the cheese. I was like, What if one of the Blight Ganons became sentient? What if it didn’t know it was a Blight Ganon, but its true nature emerged anyway? How long could it fake being human? After realizing that it wasn’t human, what decisions would it make about its original purpose? (And most importantly: Can it be romanced?)
I’m also a big fan of the “destroying a world vs. letting a world die” theme, which is what I’m playing with in The Demon King. Despite being severely depressed, Ananth is hellbent on destroying Ceres’s world to save his own, all the while knowing that he has to force himself to become magically toxic and corrupted in the process.
In other words, Furi has all the good shit I’m interested in. It’s also a lot of fun to play. It took me more than two years to git gud, but the payoff was definitely worth it.
