Indie studio D-Pad is best known for Owlboy, a lovely offbeat 2D Metroidvania platformer about carrying your friends through skyfaring adventures, but it got its start with a snacky bullet hell called Savant - Ascent. Ten years after its release, Savant is now getting the remastered treatment by way of an Anniversary Edition.
For its return, Savant - Ascent has been updated with more polished visuals, a host of new content including additional stages and boss battles, plus more abilities and finishers to use against those added baddies, like the double-jump, backflip, and mid-air power shot. The Survival Mode that sits alongside the campaign has also been updated with new challenges of its own, and the game's cutscenes have been "completely remade."
