Marathon Returns: Bungie’s Neon 90s Cyberpunk Revival

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Bungie’s Marathon revival leans into 90s cyberpunk nostalgia with ASCII interfaces and neon visuals, delivering a kinetic online shooter that embraces retro futurism while facing modern multiplayer challenges.
- With its fluorescent characters and ASCII text, Marathon is a masterclass in 90s nostalgia The Guardian
- Marathon’s Fiddly Quests Need To Stop Getting in the Way of the Fun IGN
- Marathon Launch Review: Bungie’s extraction shooter is a hostile beast worth taming Video Games Chronicle
- One of Marathon's best tricks? It dodges the "Blorko" problem that doomed Concord and Highguard Eurogamer.net
- Marathon is missing Destiny's secretly best feature Polygon
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