Review: Constance (Switch) – A Beautiful Metroidvania With Something To Say

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The idea of an indie Metroidvania exploring mental illness has become a bit of a cliche. The past decade has seen successes in the genre like the Hollow Knight and Ori games, as well as titles like Celeste that manifest their main character’s mental journey through their mechanics. Constance owes a lot to every game listed above, but uses those influences to say something profound, even if it doesn’t reinvent the wheel in any significant way.

Constance is a game about overstimulation and concentration, following the titular character as she escapes her overwhelming reality in favour of a fantasy realm of her own mind’s creation, manifesting both its charms and its horrors. Every now and again, we get a peek into Constance’s true reality, memories of her struggling to make deadlines at work, ignoring her loved ones and cracking under the pressure of day-to-day life.

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