If you love Marathon's vectorheart style but not its PvP, get your aesthetic fix from the gorgeously overstimulating demo for this time trial FPS instead

There are so many reasons I should be excited for Marathon, and many of them are aesthetic ones. I have a particular weakness for the stark, colorful, striking designs of its vectorheart-inspired art style that pairs cold sterility with bold, borderline-obnoxious color intensity. It's like someone built a game from the desktop wallpaper I had—and the posters I wish I could afford—as an early-2000s preteen.

There's just one problem: I'm not an extraction shooter guy. Luckily, thanks to the demo for Cicadamata...