[RPS] Capcom's Pragmata is a clean and pleasant lunar shooter with a touch of God Of War

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In Capcom’s sci-fi third-person shooter Pragmata, you are a gruff and gun-toting astronaut called Hugh Williams who is exploring an AI-operated moon base with the help of a juvenile android, Diana. She rides on your back like a sinister blue-eyed goblin, her enormous mop of blonde hair flapping in the wind as Hugh jets around on his suit thrusters. The notes of God Of Warlike deuteragonism here betray Pragmata’s dragged-out development – it was announced in 2020, when Dad & Sprog action games were all the rage, but was delayed "indefinitely" in 2023. Still, the game I played at this year’s Summer Game Fest didn’t seem greatly the worse for its long spell in cryostasis. It’s a slick thinking girl’s shooter and a gratifyingly bright and clicky piece of lunar set dressing, with shattering robot enemies that put me wistfully in mind of Binary Domain. Read more

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