A spirit reconciles his own death
When developer Thomas Finch first showed bits ofEthereal, I almost wanted to share it simply because of how pretty it looked (especiallyin motion), but at the time, there was not a lot of other information to go on. It is a story about a man who dies suddenly, and afterward, he navigates the spirit world to come to terms with it. It is loosely based on Finch’s own father’s death.
Now that there is gameplay to show, the project is launching onKickstartertoday.Ethereallooks like it shares a central mechanic withVVVVVV, where the spirit protagonist cannot jump, but can flip gravity for himself. Unlike that Terry Cavanagh classic, this applies the idea to a cerebral puzzle-platformer rather than a twitch action-platformer.
