NEON WHITE

Racing meets rocket jumps in Annapurna’s angelic speedrunner

Heaven, it turns out, has Sega-blue skies. Just as we always hoped. What we could never have anticipated, though, is that the rest of the scenery would follow suit. Floating walkways that curve like a section of OutRun track; a marble staircase leading straight to the head of a bulbous demon, just waiting to be jumped on to launch us upwards; impossible airborne canals where water flows upwards, providing a handy speed boost in the process.

This is all good news for your protagonist, who finds himself in paradise on a temporary visa. Heaven has a demon problem, and he’s one of a host of recently deceased sinners with potentially transferable skills who have been shipped in to help solve it, each of them given a mask and new identity as a ‘Neon’, and offered redemption as their reward. But there’s only one spot available beyond the pearly gates, and it’ll go to whichever demon slayer makes it to the finish line first.