However, the main issue wasn’t lack of context but lack of interest. Obviously, this is a work in progress, and the preview build dropped me in several hours into the game. Upon keen inspection a few things began to niggle me straight away.

As the Keeper of Balance or the Chosen, Avril is able to use comic space magic to fight against evil at the behest of the guardians. Earth has been destroyed by a mysterious calamity (again), and it’s up to teenager Avril to somehow put it right. She takes the form of a wizened old woman in a cloak thick with pretty fungus and one of the most instantly annoying voices I’ve ever heard. The titular Batora is an ancient being, who thinks of herself (for she is presented as a she) as the most powerful entity in the universe.

Plucky protagonist, alien world in peril, twin-stick action and one character who appears to be around 80% bare midriff. It’s got everything that would usually make it ripe to steal all the hours of my life. When viewed from orbit, Batora: Lost Haven looks like just the sort of brightly-coloured, frantic place I’d like to land my colonisation ship and put down roots.

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