InDeath Of A Wish, combat has substance: it’s a form of redemptive self-expression.

Fight beautifully, and you won’t just survive - you’ll be beautiful.

You’ll be you.

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Death Of A Wish began life as a DLC expansion for 2018’sLucah: Born Of A Dream.

But as with Lucah, what really brings everything together is the visual direction.

Straight lines and clean boundaries there are none: everything is fidgety and forever leaking into everything else.

A character fighting a huge red Nightmare in Death of a Wish

It’s absolutely gorgeous.

But there are moments of drollness and camaraderie, too, and the ugliness is never gratuitous.

A figure by a pool in Death of a Wish

A hazy rocky landscape with sunbeams in Death of a Wish

A bridge with lamp posts engulfed in purple mist in Death of a Wish

A character screaming in pain in Death of a Wish