Iron Danger – PAX EAST 2020 Preview
Everyone wishes they could rewind time and fix any mistake that they’ve made in life, especially when those mistakes are fatal. In Iron Danger, that’s exactly what you can do. The tutorial in our demo showed you all the basics with a single character. As you move through the world, you’ll need to come an eye on just about everything. You might be walking along and suddenly an arrow will come out of nowhere and strike you down. Thanks to the handy dandy rewind feature, all is not lost. All you must do is rewind right before you die and chose a different option. In this case, strafing to one side or the other should be enough to avoid the arrow.
In order to bend time to your will you’ll need to keep an eye on your surroundings and your meter at the bottom of the screen. In the early stages of the game this isn’t that hard of a feat. However, as the game progresses and you are controlling multiple characters it becomes much more difficult.
You can switch back and forth between characters and make changes to one without influencing the other character’s actions. As you get familiar with this mechanic it will be easy to focus on one character while the other will go quite a few turns without doing anything. In this case you’ll want to switch to the neglected character and finds ways they can help their partner.
Each character has different skills and abilities so you’ll need to become familiar with what each character can do. One may be able to block attacks while another needs to dodge them. Clicking on a character can select their timeline and let you make changes to help your party make it out alive. Often, you’ll need to work together in order to solve puzzles and clear other areas.
The best part about the time hoping is how well it works. It never feels like a gimmick and, though you basically can never die, the puzzle is more about finding ways to trick death rather than just avoid it. Even if you can keep yourself from dying permanently, you will still die a lot.
Iron Danger is shooting for a March 25th release date on Steam.
