I’ve already humiliated myself attempting to describe the sensory enormity that is Cicadamata”, the new movement shooter from flowergarden with the tricksy title punctuation, so instead of writing additional sentences such as “this game is like drinking the aurora borealis” (OK, one more) or “this game is like surfing the Niagara Falls during a freak shower of potassium pellets” (enough!), I’m just going to transcribe the latest trailer.

Chklpewedewe chklpewedewe wrrrr DAN wrrrrr chklpewedewe DAN chklpewedewe DUNCH DUNCH DUNCH DU-DUNCH DUNCH DUNCH DUNCH DUNCH wrblwrblwrblwrbl… Argh, I can’t quite pin down the exact acoustics of the game’s crunchy shotgun squeal. All I know is that it’s up there with the telekinetic whoop in Control as one of my current favourite videogame sounds.

Why are you still reading this nonsense? You could be playing Cicadamata”. I’m not sure we’ll have time for a full review, because we have to go exorcise Geoff Keighley again next week, but I’ve played the demo and the full game seems very unlikely to disappoint. In particular, if you love nu-Marathon’s aesthetics but wish it was a fizzy time attack game rather than an extraction shooter, this might appeal.

Find it on Steam.