Neva: Prologue DLC (Nintendo Switch 2) Review

About a year and a half since its release, Nomada Studios’ Neva remains the game I think of when people bring up the age-old “are video games art” debate—a tight, concise gameplay experience and a visually stunning journey, with a powerful emotional core. I didn’t expect we’d see any more in this world, but now the new Prologue DLC offers a compelling incentive to return to this shadowy world for one more chapter (or play it for the first time).

Neva: Prologue is a short chapter which, despite being intended to play after completing the game, is actually the story of how protagonist Alba found the titular wolf pup. True to the main game’s form, Alba has the same set of skills—running, (double) jumping, rolling, and swinging her sword—but this prequel acts like a sort of final testing ground, where all the reflexes you’ve honed are called into play.

Without having played the game since completing it at launch, returning was like... Read more