When you do reach that fourth phase, you’ll have access to a lot of the tools you unlocked beforehand. You don’t have to worry about that: Returnal is a tough game, but it’s not that tough. I’m mentioning this because I’ve seen comments and questions across social media, forums and Discords of people wondering whether the game can only be beaten in a single, continuous sitting.
You won’t have to replay the original three areas, run through their environments or find their respective teleporters. But I think it makes a lot of sense to say that once you reach Returnal‘s fourth biome, all your progress is saved to that point. I won’t say anything about what happens in those levels. You might have quicker runs with better loot, and you might end up just trying to brute force things a little because you get a killer weapon off the bat and some juicy upgrades.
That whole process is about three levels and boss fights long, and how long it might take you to complete that varies. When you play the game for the first time, Selene will be given a basic task: find the source of the White Shadow broadcast. The next question I’ve seen is whether that means you have to finish the entire game in a single run. And if you do skip ahead, you’ll immediately find a power-up on the other side that boosts your weapon level so you’re not underpowered for all the foes ahead. But Returnal plays fair by moving the teleport to the next area much closer to the Helios, so you don’t have to spend hours clearing out rooms you just beat to get back to where you were. The key thing here is if you beat a boss, then die in the next area, you’ll return to the Helios. You can if you want, and there’s actually a lot of reasons why you might want to do this. And this is the first point of confusion people have: once you beat a boss in Returnal, you don’t have to fight it again. After beating the boss of each area, they’ll drop a key which unlocks access to the next area, usually through a massive Stargate-esque teleport.
Returnal review embargo series#
Returnal is split into a series of biomes. Do you have to finish the game in an entire sitting? Do you have to permanently put your console into rest mode if you’re having a really good run but can’t finish a boss fight? That’s caused a fair bit of confusion, primarily because people aren’t sure exactly how long runs of Returnal could or should be.
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