It’s a top down puzzler where you’re a raptor travelling at near-light speeds. You have to dodge cannonballs using relativistic effects and solve colour changing puzzles, etc.

On the other hand it’s sad that these are still funnier, scarier, more interesting than most cutscenes 15 years on in genres more focused on human beings.

Also. the adversaries, the Independence Fleet, are typically referred to as the “indies”. Cue much tittering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7AsRQXOUSY

http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

“These effects, rendered in realtime to vertex accuracy, include the Doppler effect (red- and blue-shifting of visible light, and the shifting of infrared and ultraviolet light into the visible spectrum); the searchlight effect (increased brightness in the direction of travel); time dilation (differences in the perceived passage of time from the player and the outside world); Lorentz transformation (warping of space at near-light speeds); and the runtime effect (the ability to see objects as they were in the past, due to the travel time of light).”

Coincidentally, I had never known of Queen’s ”’39’ until a month ago. It’s a melancholy sci-fi folk song about the twin paradox by the astrophysicist rockstar, what a world, and it is fantastic. I learned of ’39 and Pokarekare ana at about the same time, and they tag-teamed my brain for five days solid.

(I learned of ’39 thanks to Idle Thumbs’ Kerbal Space Program stream. It’s 3.5 hours long, but I feel it’s worth watching if those who read this have time to watch things; I don’t, but I’ve watched it twice and listened to it more. It’s great both for Idle Thumbs content and for KSP LP. Part of that is that there’s a punchline with a two-hour-long setup, taking the stream out in a blaze of glory.)