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If you\u2019ve ever wondered what the arcade classic Rampage<\/a> would be like if you had to play as a puny human rather than one of the skyscraper-smashing goliaths, then Kong: Survivor Instinct might be your answer. This 2.5D Metroidvania platformer takes place amidst a crumbling coastal cityscape while Kong and his kaiju combatants duke it out in the background, making it seem at first glance a bit like a Shadow Complex<\/a> situated within Shadow of the Colossus<\/a>. It\u2019s a novel enough concept, but basic environmental puzzle design and uninspired combat mean that Survivor Instinct is unable to reach the towering heights of its ideas, and as I begrudgingly pushed crates and collected keys to make my way through each ruined urban rabbit hole I could never really shake the impression that Kong seemed to be having considerably more fun than I was. <\/p>\n

Not that actually playing as Kong would be a guaranteed good time, of course \u2013 2023\u2019s Skull Island: Rise of Kong<\/a> was such an unmitigated disaster that the aftermath of its self-destruction is probably still being studied by scientists from the Monarch organization. Kong: Survivor Instinct is a notably better game than that, but once the novelty of having the iconic angry ape messing about in the middle distance fades it just doesn\u2019t have the level of creativity or player freedom that other superior games of this ilk released in recent years \u2013 such as Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown<\/a> or Blasphemous 2<\/a> \u2013 have so expertly displayed. <\/p>\n

It also doesn\u2019t have much of a story beyond \u201cDon\u2019t get smashed by the monkey.\u201d We play as David Martin, a single dad in search of his daughter who\u2019s gone missing in the midst of the spectacular, city-ravaging royal rumble that\u2019s currently sweeping along the west coast of the United States. The elevator pitch of David\u2019s personality is basically a sort of middle-aged Nathan Drake who\u2019s apparently forgotten how to be funny (almost every time he kills a labrador-sized spider he deadpans \u201cI was never fond of spiders\u201d), and the handful of survivors he meets along the way don\u2019t even pretend to be real characters. There are also a couple of appearances from the villainous Alan Jonah, who was last seen in 2019\u2019s Godzilla: King of the Monsters<\/a> \u2013 there he was played by a typically cold and ruthless Charles Dance (AKA Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones<\/a>), but here he\u2019s voiced by a somewhat subdued soundalike. None of these details really matter, though, since Kong: Survivor Instinct\u2019s slight amount of story is stretched thin over its six-hour frame until it suddenly snaps apart during its jarringly abrupt and underwhelming conclusion.<\/p>\n

Kong: Survivor Instinct\u2019s slight amount of story is stretched thin over its six-hour frame until it suddenly snaps apart.<\/p>\n

Surface Tension<\/h2>\n

The story may be weak, but the look and feel of its crumbling 2.5D environments is undoubtedly its strength. David\u2019s quest leads him from smoldering suburban outskirts to devastated downtown areas and the mysterious subterranean facilities below, and each dilapidated diorama is rich with precise detail and convincing depth. Kong: Survivor Instinct does perhaps try a bit too hard to convince you that every structure you explore is an unstable one with the repetitive routine with which it collapses the floor beneath your feet or drops chunks of the ceiling onto your skull, and that does get old pretty fast. However, it also allows you to scamper along the roofs of cars suspended by the webs of a towering arachnid, and navigate your way through the slanted corridors of an apartment building that\u2019s been violently upended by Kong, so there are some more interesting platforming sections among them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a shame that so much of the exploration is built around the same pushing of crates and shooting of padlocked gates. The very best Metroidvanias \u2013 like Hollow Knight<\/a> or Metroid Dread<\/a> \u2013 gradually empower you with new tools and abilities that incentivise you to backtrack through the world and unlock previously unreachable areas, but Kong: Survivor Instinct is comparatively light-on when it comes to evolving the ways in which you interact with your surroundings. Here, by contrast, David is given a sledgehammer to smash through weakened walls and eventually a grappling hook to scale up to specific anchor points, but otherwise his progression is always painfully obvious and consists of the same rehashed circuit boxes to shoot or generators to repair, copied and pasted along the winding path towards each mission objective.<\/p>\n

This general absence of ingenuity also drains the enjoyment out of its combat, which is primarily geared towards melee attacks since ammunition for David\u2019s pistol is so scarce. There is some nuance to each scrap with Jonah\u2019s soldiers \u2013 you can block or parry their blows to open them up for a counter attack or grab them to use them as a human shield when their more heavily armed comrades open fire, and I was pleased to discover that you can even shoot them in the leg to drop them to their knees so that you can deliver a series of finishing blows a la <\/em>Resident Evil 4<\/a>. At the same time, there\u2019s a stiffness to each scrap, particularly when David finds himself surrounded, and since he\u2019s unable to jump or climb while he\u2019s locked in a combat stance there were times where I\u2019d knock an enemy off a ledge, only to find myself unable to drop down and continue the fight. Annoyingly, the only way forward was to reload my save.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, rather than introduce any interesting new enemy types that require you to adapt your methods of attack, Kong: Survivor Instinct just gradually ups the numbers of foes in each encounter while keeping your combat abilities exactly the same. David\u2019s pistol can be upgraded to carry more rounds per magazine to help counter the swelling hordes, but there are no other firearms to find despite the fact that every other goon you come across in the story\u2019s second half seems to be toting a pump-action shotgun. When you consider that outside of the human soldier types there are only a couple of small spider-like enemies to contend with \u2013 and absolutely no boss fights whatsoever \u2013 Kong: Survivor Instinct\u2019s combat feels flatter than a kaiju\u2019s couch cushion overall.<\/p>\n

Raze the Roof <\/h2>\n

While there might not be any traditional boss fights, Kong: Survivor Instinct does feature a handful of sequences that could best be described as boss flights<\/em>. At specific points during the story, Kong or one of his rival titans will spot you through the window of a structure and you\u2019ll be suddenly forced to flee, with the monster punching wrecking ball-sized holes in your path that require some pinpoint platforming to evade. (Sadly, none of these titans is Godzilla.) These sections certainly inject a burst of excitement and urgency into the adventure, although they also involve a fair amount of trial and error to get around instant deaths, which did lead to some frustrating repeated checkpoint restarts at times. Still, watching one of these monolithic beasts unwrap the building you\u2019re trapped inside of like a kaiju kid on Christmas morning is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular tricks that Kong: Survivor Instinct has up its sleeves \u2013 even despite the seismic impact these high-intensity moments seem to inflict on the frame rate while playing on PlayStation 5.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, those are the only times that Kong and company have a measurable impact on the action. Elsewhere, these goliaths are only ever glimpsed \u2013 either having an incidental tussle in the distant background, or when you summon one by collecting the requisite number of biowaves scattered around each level to clear a blocked path towards a level\u2019s exit in a game of supersized simian Simon Says. It\u2019s certainly a treat to watch Kong casually pick up a connected row of train carriages like they\u2019re steel sausage links and violently wrench them apart, but the operative word here is \u201cwatch.\u201d Once these path-clearing actions have been performed, it\u2019s straight back to the same plodding puzzle-platforming and uninspired combat. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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