Revelations is Synapse’s name for permanent upgrades split across three skill trees, for your TK, weapons and general resilience respectively. It’s an interaction with the same simple satisfaction – and muscle memory – as checking your watch for notifications. A 3D space floats above it, pinpoints enemy locations and collectables. Flip your TK hand palm up for a radial-style device to materialize upon it.
Synapse’s mini-map is thoughtfully executed.
Turn TK-grabbed foes into short-term friendlies or targets for other assailants to draw fire away from you. Clutch an object with TK to kick in slo-mo. These add fun modifiers for the rest of your run. Completion of any opens a door to the next, at the threshold of which you’re offered one of two possible two Traits. A run will have you fight a growing mix of enemy types across multiple levels, the sequencing of those stages randomized and pulled from a large pool of potential locations.
The odds are put back in your favor through steadily unlocked abilities and randomized buffs, all tools built to nudge you into being as enjoyably, efficiently creative with your skills as possible. You’re outnumbered, continually outflanked, attackers able to short-range teleport to better position themselves. Those encounters are punchy bursts of action which increase in complexity and intensity. It’s driven by tactical combat, using your base abilities of bullets and TK plus interactive objects to clear out multi-leveled arenas of enemies. And now, thanks to a hands-on with a specially-curated playable demo, we have a better understanding of how Synapse gameplay unfolds.
Last month at PlayStation Showcase, developer nDreams used the release date announcement to dig into the story of a lone operative diving into another’s mind to avert global catastrophe, and the reunion of two high-caliber voice talents who find themselves again involved in a black ops-style mission, but this time on different sides of a battlefield. Synapse’s State of Play reveal illustrated a potent combo of sidearm and telekinetic-infused combat.
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