I get it, there’s a ton of fantastic Metroidvania games out there, and it’s hard to keep up with it, but 2021’s Ender Lillies: Quietus of the Knights was a definite highlight of the genre. And it turns out that the teams at Adglobe and Live Wire are pretty good at this whole thing, because its sequel, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, managed to surpass it.
First announced last year, then released into early access shortly after, Ender Magnolia properly released earlier this year and landed an 84 on Metacritic and an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ rating on its Steam page. Rather than being a direct sequel to Ender Lillies, Ender Magnolia takes place decades later and follows a new protagonist – Lilac – aiming to protect humanity from raging Homunculi and attempting to save the artificial beings in the process.
