Game Trax

The 2018 platformer Celeste - the game which made composer Lena Raine’s name - too marries its gameplay and visuals to its music. Rather than exploring an idyllic woodland as in Ori, in Celeste the player must work to the top of a forbidding mountain, overcoming spikes, chasms, high winds, a psychotic hotel owner, extremely unsettling one-eyed squid monsters, and, in a very literal way, one’s own personal demons. The muscular physics feel very di...