Throughout this week,
The A.V. Club has been running our picks for the best pop culture of the first half of 2021, a celebration of art made in the long shadow of the collective miseries of the last year-plus. Our games coverage is, of course, no different, with the list of our favorite titles of the year hitting the site tomorrow morning. But in looking over the picks one last time before putting the feature to bed, a question snuck into my mind, one that never lurks far from home: “Hey, am I being an asshole here?”
Don’t get me wrong: I’m proud of, and stand by, our list, which highlights some great titles, from indie games all the way through big-budget system-sellers. But it’s inevitable, when you look at any kind of Grand Summation Of The State Of Games with a bit of hindsight, for the gaps to quickly become glaring. And so I thought I’d use this week’s
There’s much hype surrounding the release of Astalon: Tears of the Earth on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC, with players across the globe holding out for the chance to get hands-on with the long-awaited 2D action platformer. We put ourselves in that camp, so when the opportunity arose to spend time with the team at LABS Works in order to find out more about the game, we jumped at the chance.
Hi, could you please introduce yourself. What is your role at LABS Works and on the creation of Astalon: Tears of the Earth?
Hello! My name is Matt Kap, and I’m the final boss of LABS Works, as well as the game designer, lead artist, and composer of “Astalon: Tears of the Earth”! Nice to meet you :)!
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