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Mediterranea Inferno's dazzling, pulverising Italian summer horror is out now on consoles
If you're looking to bring a bit of summer sun into the lingering bleakness of a waning winter, then boy do I have a re…
What follows is an artfully orchestrated descent into nightmare - a vicious, emotionally pummelling, and unabashedly queer tale of friendship and post-COVID trauma where players, in Redaelli's own words, can push "three bourgeois twinks...towards the most horrible and gruesome endings". From woozy, disco-hued dance floor sequences to stark black and white flashbacks, the combination of Redaelli's wonderfully seductive score, sparing soundscapes, and often hypnotic visuals (drawing inspiration from the likes of fashion photography, classic Italian cinema, and Catholic imagery) is so ferociously intense, the effect is all-consuming. It's genuinely astonishing stuff - deftly juggling pitch-black humour with moments of painful, sometimes disturbing, emotional frankness - and an easy recommend from me now it's finally made the jump from PC to Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox Series X/S.
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