Primal Threat Reviews

"Primal Threat" is a somewhat short metroidvania by a spare-time solo-dev starring two kids in a prehistoric scifi-setting. First things out of the way: It has definetly rough edges and a little jank, somehow I experienced frame drops (played on an old laptop, but it's still puzzling), some bosses have weird hit detection, the jumping can be a little stiff, the BGM switches sometimes unvoluntarily (I think) and the long hallways and pipes are littered with enemies (would there be a knockback on hit, like in the first Castlevania and the likes, it would be extremely tedious, but luckily you can just face-tank many things after some health upgrades). The nice things are that it has a Coop-Mode, the tracks are quite catchy, you completely heal while switching between levels (this can be a nice exploit for speedrunning and there even is a speedrunning mode), the interconnected map layout reminded me a little of "Hero Core" (a great classic by the way), the damage modifier based on the colourpalette of your weapon is quite creative and I liked the final double-jump upgrade, where you just spam projectiles while jumping. Got this on sale for less than a buck and got my fair share out of it. Plus the dev sounds like a chill guy.